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Ran Wei is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, biologically-inspired control systems, dexterous robotic manipulation, and space robotics. His most influential contributions center on developing innovative control strategies for mobile robots, particularly his bearing-only control law for stabilizing unicycle-like vehicles during docking maneuvers, which leverages panoramic camera systems to extract visual bearing data — a paper that has garnered 14 citations. Complementing this, Wei explored biomimetic approaches to robot navigation, drawing inspiration from desert ant visual systems to achieve reliable mobile robot homing using weighted landmark models, accumulating 11 citations. Wei has also made notable contributions to hardware design, developing an FPGA-based embedded controller for the sophisticated HIT/DLR dexterous robot hand, demonstrating his breadth across both software and mechanical systems. His work on four-wheel-steered mobile robot maneuver control and instantaneous center of rotation analysis further reflects his versatility in kinematic modeling. Perhaps most ambitiously, Wei contributed to high-fidelity distributed hardware-in-the-loop simulation frameworks for space robotics through the DLR-HIT Joint Robotics Lab, supporting verification of Chinese space satellite manipulator tasks. More recently, his interests have extended into smart energy observation. Across these diverse domains, Wei's research reflects a career dedicated to bridging biological inspiration, precise engineering, and real-world robotic applications.