Papers
5
Total Citations
16
H-Index
3
About
Qixian Zhang is a robotics researcher whose work spans multiple decades and encompasses flexible sensor technology, robotic locomotion, manipulation, and redundant manipulator control. His early contributions in the late 1990s and early 2000s focused on the mechanics of multi-legged wall-climbing robots, developing gait programming frameworks for navigating vertical surfaces and ceilings — foundational work that addressed stability and overturn-resistance in complex terrains. Alongside this, Zhang investigated contact force analysis in robotic grasping, employing vector space decomposition to systematically characterize grasp quality, contributing to more principled approaches in robotic manipulation. His research also explored singularity avoidance in redundant manipulators, tackling joint velocity limitations to improve dexterity and motion planning. More recently, Zhang has turned his attention to flexible electronics, with his 2025 work on tri-scale graded microstructure pressure sensors already garnering attention for addressing the longstanding sensitivity-linearity trade-off in wearable devices — a breakthrough with significant implications for health monitoring and robotic perception. With a career bridging classical robotics and cutting-edge smart materials, Zhang represents a researcher whose contributions continue to evolve meaningfully across engineering disciplines.
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- 2On transit gait programming of six-legged wall-climbing robot3 citations · 1997
- 3Calculation of Contact Forces in Grasping by Space Decomposition3 citations · 2001
- 4Gait Programming for Multi-Legged Robot Climbing on Walls and Ceilings2 citations · 2000
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