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Junqi Zhang is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and bio-inspired optimization, whose work bridges the gap between particle swarm algorithms and real-world robotic applications. His primary research areas include swarm intelligence, multi-robot coordination, and adaptive path planning in complex environments. Zhang’s most significant contribution is the development of the Moving-Distance-Minimized PSO for mobile robot swarms (51 citations), which for the first time systematically exploited the structural similarity between particle swarms and physical robot collectives. He has also pioneered evolutionary attack-defense strategies for robot swarms in GPS-denied environments (18 citations) and introduced a herd-foraging-based approach to adaptive coverage path planning (17 citations), demonstrating how predator-prey dynamics can optimize terrain surveying. His work on multimodal fusion for rehabilitation robotic walkers (20 citations) extends swarm principles to human-robot interaction, addressing critical needs in assistive healthcare. Zhang’s research consistently achieves high impact by solving practical challenges—such as concave obstacle avoidance using tabu search (14 citations) and large-scale multi-source location via virtual-swarm PSO—while maintaining rigorous theoretical foundations. His innovations in hybrid topology-based optimization and local-communication path planning have established him as a key figure advancing swarm robotics from simulation to deployment in denied and dynamic environments.