Papers
123
Total Citations
2,859
H-Index
28
About
Jingang Yi is a prominent robotics and mechatronics researcher whose work spans mobile robotics, wearable exoskeletons, semiconductor manufacturing automation, and biomedical sensing systems. His early and highly influential contributions focused on skid-steered mobile robots, where he developed rigorous kinematic models, adaptive trajectory control strategies, and IMU-based localization and slip estimation techniques — work that collectively garnered nearly 400 citations and addressed the fundamental challenges of complex wheel-ground interactions. Yi also pioneered "smart tire" sensing systems using PVDF-based piezo sensors, enabling real-time estimation of wheel-ground forces for autonomous vehicles and robots. Beyond mobile robotics, Yi made substantial contributions to semiconductor manufacturing by developing innovative scheduling frameworks for multicluster tools, with papers on event-graph network models and decomposition approaches accumulating over 390 citations combined. His applied robotics research extended to infrastructure inspection, designing an autonomous bridge deck evaluation system that addressed critical public safety needs. More recently, Yi has advanced wearable robotics, developing a quasi-direct drive actuator for lightweight hip exoskeletons achieving superior backdrivability and bandwidth (165 citations), and applying dual IMU-based gait analysis to neurological disease classification — reflecting a compelling pivot toward intelligent healthcare and rehabilitation engineering. With over 1,300 citations across his top ten papers alone, Yi's interdisciplinary impact is both broad and enduring.
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- 7A Piezo-Sensor-Based “Smart Tire” System for Mobile Robots and Vehicles105 citations · 2008
- 8IMU-based localization and slip estimation for skid-steered mobile robots98 citations · 2007
- 9Adaptive Trajectory Tracking Control of Skid-Steered Mobile Robots96 citations · 2007
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