Meiqin Liu

About

Meiqin Liu is a robotics and intelligent systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of assistive robotics, autonomous exploration, and multi-agent systems. She is perhaps best known for her contributions to smart home robotics for elderly care, most notably the RiSH (Robot-integrated Smart Home) system, which has garnered 178 citations and stands as a landmark demonstration of how robots can meaningfully support independent living. Her early research laid important groundwork in robot auditory perception, developing open platforms and context-aware sound recognition frameworks that enable home service robots to interpret and respond to their acoustic environments — work recognized across multiple publications from 2015 to 2016. Liu has also made significant strides in autonomous robot exploration, proposing confidence-rich mapping approaches that address pose uncertainty in information-theoretic frameworks, advancing the reliability of real-world robot navigation. Her contributions extend further into multi-agent systems, where she has tackled cooperative output regulation for heterogeneous nonlinear networks using Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models, as well as hierarchical multi-robot task planning under temporal logic specifications. Spanning assistive technology, semantic mapping, and distributed control, Liu's body of work reflects a sustained commitment to making robotic systems smarter, more collaborative, and more practically useful in complex human environments.

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1. 1
   RiSH: A robot-integrated smart home for elderly care

   178 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Quantized Fuzzy Cooperative Output Regulation for Heterogeneous Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Directed Fixed/Switching Topologies

   39 citations · 2021
3. 3
   Robot semantic mapping through human activity recognition: A wearable sensing and computing approach

   24 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Human-assisted sound event recognition for home service robots

   18 citations · 2016
5. 5
   Uncertainty-Aware Autonomous Robot Exploration Using Confidence-Rich Localization and Mapping

   16 citations · 2024
6. 6
   CRMI: Confidence-Rich Mutual Information for Information-Theoretic Mapping

   15 citations · 2021
7. 7
   An open platform of auditory perception for home service robots

   15 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Multiple Waypoints Path Planning for a Home Mobile Robot

   15 citations · 2018
9. 9
   Hierarchical multi-robot strategies synthesis and optimization under individual and collaborative temporal logic specifications

   13 citations · 2022
10. 10
    Context-aware sound event recognition for home service robots

    12 citations · 2016

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