Minglu Zhang
Papers
17
Total Citations
215
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7
About
Minglu Zhang is a robotics researcher whose work spans two primary domains: wall-climbing robot systems and robotic manipulator dynamics. With a career trajectory evident from early teleoperation research in 2006 through to cutting-edge soft robotics in 2025, Zhang has built a substantial body of work addressing real-world industrial challenges in petrochemical inspection, ship maintenance, and weld detection. Zhang's most influential contributions center on adaptive wall-climbing robots capable of navigating variable-curvature surfaces — a notoriously difficult engineering challenge. His 2020 paper on surface-adaptive robots for petrochemical tanks (40 citations) and subsequent work on Halbach array magnetic circuits (17 citations) demonstrate both mechanical innovation and rigorous electromagnetic analysis. Complementing this, his research on dynamic parameter identification for robotic manipulators — particularly leveraging joint torque sensors and proprioception — has attracted significant attention, with his 2019 foundational paper earning 41 citations. More recently, Zhang has expanded into soft robotics and anthropomorphic dexterous hands, reflecting a broadening research vision. Collectively accumulating nearly 190 citations across a decade of active publication, his work meaningfully advances autonomous inspection, industrial maintenance, and intelligent robotic systems for complex real-world environments.
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- 7A Robot Teleoperation System Based on Virtual Reality and WLAN8 citations · 2006
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