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Total Citations
358
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About
Lihua Dou is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and multi-agent systems, with a career spanning foundational work in energy-optimized task allocation to cutting-edge advances in underwater and snake robotics. Dou’s most influential contribution, the 2007 paper “Towards Energy Optimization: Emergent Task Allocation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots” (136 citations), introduced a simple yet powerful adaptation mechanism that automatically adjusts the ratio of foragers to resters in a robot swarm, maximizing net energy income through local sensing and communication—a seminal result in swarm intelligence. Building on this, Dou’s research extends to distributed high-order multi-agent coordination (33 citations), autonomous navigation for snake robots using MEMS IMU (24 citations), and the recent WaterFormer (2024, 21 citations), a global–local transformer for underwater image enhancement that addresses the limitations of convolutional neural networks. Dou has also pioneered 3D visual sensing for snake robots and complete coverage path planning for indoor mobile robots. With over 300 total citations across a diverse portfolio, Dou’s work integrates theoretical rigor with practical robotics, offering key insights for students and researchers in swarm optimization, bio-inspired robotics, and autonomous systems.
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- 2Strategies for Energy Optimisation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots49 citations · 2007
- 3An overview of distributed high-order multi-agent coordination33 citations · 2014
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