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Total Citations
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About
Lidong Yang is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of magnetic microrobotics, swarm control, and minimally invasive medical technologies. His work addresses one of robotics' most formidable challenges: precisely controlling untethered micro- and nanorobots within the complex, constrained environments of the human body. Yang's landmark 2021 study on endoscopy-assisted magnetic navigation of biohybrid soft microrobots (341 citations) demonstrated how high-precision therapeutic delivery could be achieved deep within the body—a breakthrough that has significantly shaped the field. His foundational contributions to swarm microrobotics, including statistics-based automated control algorithms and vortex-like paramagnetic nanoparticle swarms, have established new paradigms for coordinating large populations of nanoscale agents without direct communication (183 and 93 citations, respectively). His widely read review on magnetic microrobot motion control (161 citations) and comprehensive swarm microrobotics survey (119 citations) serve as essential references for researchers entering the discipline. More recently, Yang has pioneered the integration of machine learning into micro- and nanorobotics (82 citations), pointing toward increasingly intelligent autonomous systems. Collectively, his work bridges precision engineering, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, making him a defining voice in the future of targeted, minimally invasive therapy.
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- 4A Survey on Swarm Microrobotics119 citations · 2021
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- 8Machine learning for micro- and nanorobots82 citations · 2024
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