Sunan Huang
Papers
11
Total Citations
627
H-Index
8
About
Sunan Huang is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans rehabilitation robotics, intelligent control, and precision motion systems. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to human-robot interaction control in rehabilitation robotics, particularly his highly cited 2015 paper on controlling rehabilitation robots equipped with Series Elastic Actuators (SEAs), which has garnered over 355 citations and remains a cornerstone reference in the field. His research addresses the critical challenge of ensuring safety and stability when robots physically interact with the human body, including the design of novel compact compliant actuators that make rehabilitation devices safer and more responsive. Beyond rehabilitation robotics, Huang has made significant contributions to fault detection and accommodation in robotic systems, adaptive neural network control for electrically driven robots, and decentralized control of large-scale uncertain systems. His work extends into precision engineering, including piezoelectric ultrasonic motor control, spherical air bearing positioning, and force estimation for delicate surgical devices. More recently, he has explored multi-UAV coverage control for unmanned aerial systems. With a research portfolio spanning over a decade and contributions cited hundreds of times internationally, Huang's work represents a broad and enduring influence on intelligent, safe, and precise robotic control systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Fault Detection, Isolation, and Accommodation Control in Robotic Systems55 citations · 2008
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- 4A novel compact compliant actuator design for rehabilitation robots43 citations · 2013
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- 7Development of a Spherical Air Bearing Positioning System23 citations · 2011
- 8Precision motion control of a linear piezoelectric ultrasonic motor stage10 citations · 2013
- 9Improved Multi-Camera Coverage Control of Unmanned Multirotors6 citations · 2020
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