Papers
9
Total Citations
128
H-Index
5
About
Jinlong Hu is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on specialized climbing and inspection robots for challenging infrastructure environments. His primary research areas include climbing robot design, cable inspection systems, and automated manufacturing robotics. Hu's most significant contributions lie in developing novel adhesion and locomotion mechanisms for robots operating on rough, dusty, or vertical surfaces—such as concrete walls, cliff faces, and bridge cables—where traditional suction or magnetic methods fail. His highly cited 2017 paper on a claw gripper system for climbing robots (50 citations) and his 2014 work on a helix cable-detecting robot for cable-stayed bridges (28 citations) demonstrate his impact in the field. He has also advanced automated sheet metal bending through the design of a six-axis Cartesian coordinate robot and fault diagnosis methods for SCARA manipulators. Hu's research is notable for its practical engineering focus, addressing real-world inspection and maintenance challenges in high-altitude and hazardous environments, with applications in bridge safety and industrial automation.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Design and Realization of the Claw Gripper System of a Climbing Robot50 citations · 2017
- 2HELIX CABLE-DETECTING ROBOT FOR CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS28 citations · 2014
- 3A rough concrete wall-climbing robot based on grasping claws21 citations · 2016
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- 6Design of cable detection robot and image detection method4 citations · 2022
- 7The obstacle-climbing capability of a pole-climbing robot3 citations · 2015
- 8Dynamic analysis on a cable with a climbing robot2 citations · 2015
- 9Research on Design and Motion Control of 5-DOF Robot for Bending2 citations · 2018