Shaocheng Luo

About

Shaocheng Luo is a robotics researcher whose career spans over three decades, with foundational contributions to robotic motion control, kinematic analysis, and multi-robot coordination. His early work in the late 1980s and early 1990s tackled the complex challenge of coordinating multiple robotic devices for welding applications, developing constrained optimization methods in Cartesian space to synchronize positioning tables with seven-axis manipulators — research that has garnered 60 citations and remains a landmark contribution to industrial robotics. He further advanced the field by investigating joint path drift in kinematically redundant robots, providing critical insights into the non-repeatability problems arising from Jacobian pseudoinverse control strategies. More recently, Luo has made significant strides in multi-robot systems, publishing influential work on rendezvous control, bearing-aided hierarchical network topology tracking, and collective coverage strategies — research areas with growing relevance to autonomous systems and environmental applications. His 2018–2019 papers demonstrate a forward-looking interest in practical deployment, including computer vision-guided algae removal using multi-robot teams. His most recent work explores radar-based real-time point cloud generation for unmanned vehicles, reflecting an evolving focus on perception and sensing. Collectively, Luo's research bridges classical robotic kinematics with modern multi-agent autonomy, making him a versatile and enduring contributor to the robotics community.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Coordinated motion control of multiple robotic devices for welding and redundancy coordination through constrained optimization in Cartesian space

   60 citations · 1989
2. 2
   Multi-robot rendezvous based on bearing-aided hierarchical tracking of network topology

   36 citations · 2018
3. 3
   Multipoint Rendezvous in Multirobot Systems

   34 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Predicting the drift motion for kinematically redundant robots

   21 citations · 1992
5. 5
   Analysis of kinematic singularities for robot manipulators in Cartesian coordinate parameters

   13 citations · 2003
6. 6
   Computer Vision-based Algae Removal Planner for Multi-robot Teams

   10 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Coordinated motion control of multiple robotic devices for welding and redundancy coordination through constrained optimization in Cartesian space

   10 citations · 2003
8. 8
   Pivot-based Collective Coverage Control with a Multi-robot Team

   9 citations · 2018
9. 9
   Measure of joint path drift for kinematically redundant robots

   6 citations · 2002
10. 10
    RadCloud: Real-Time High-Resolution Point Cloud Generation Using Low-Cost Radars for Aerial and Ground Vehicles

    4 citations · 2024

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