Papers
10
Total Citations
49
H-Index
5
About
Ruina Dang is a leading researcher in amphibious and legged robotics, with a focus on designing robots that can seamlessly transition between land and water for environmental monitoring and cleanup. Her most-cited work introduces a novel multimode amphibious robot for patrol and beach garbage collection in land–water transition zones, demonstrating her commitment to real-world applications. Dang has also made significant contributions to visual SLAM, developing RWT-SLAM to address the challenge of robust localization in weakly textured environments, and to ground-air collaborative systems with the SAME framework for semantic active mapping. Her research on quadruped robots, including bionic locomotion, adaptive behavior on uneven terrain, and traction control, has garnered over 50 citations across her top papers. Notably, she has explored cable-driven continuum robots for large-load applications, expanding the capabilities of bionic spines and tails. Dang’s work bridges theory and practice, advancing intelligent robotics for complex, unstructured environments.
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Top Papers
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- 2SAME: Ground-Air Collaborative Semantic Active Mapping and Exploration10 citations · 2024
- 3RWT-SLAM: Robust Visual SLAM for Weakly Textured Environments5 citations · 2024
- 4AI in Locomotion: Quadruped Bionic Mobile Robot5 citations · 2019
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- 7An Adaptive Behavior Under Uneven Terrains for Quadruped Robot3 citations · 2019
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- 9An efficient autonomous traction control method for quadruped robot2 citations · 2017
- 10Optimization-based hexapod robot locomotion generation1 citations · 2022