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Total Citations
50
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About
Tengan Zou is a robotics researcher whose work spans adaptive locomotion systems, legged robot control, and bio-inspired underwater robotics. Zou has made particularly significant contributions to the design of hybrid mobile robots capable of navigating complex and unpredictable terrains. A hallmark of this research is the development of innovative wheel-track-leg hybrid locomotion mechanisms featuring transformable and foldable rims, work that has accumulated 29 citations across multiple publications and established Zou as a notable voice in terrain-adaptive robot design. These systems are especially relevant to real-world applications such as search and rescue and explosive ordnance disposal, where locomotion versatility is critical. Beyond ground robotics, Zou has extended expertise into quadruped robot control, contributing a trajectory tracking method in 2022 that enhances the accuracy of both trunk center-of-mass and foot-end trajectory following in fully electrically driven platforms. More recently, Zou has ventured into computational fluid dynamics and bio-inspired underwater locomotion, examining how undulating fin waveforms affect the self-propelled performance of biomimetic robotic fish. Together, these contributions reflect a researcher committed to bridging mechanical innovation with intelligent control, offering meaningful advancements across terrestrial and aquatic robotic domains.
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- 3A wheel-track-Leg hybrid Locomotion Mechanism based on transformable rims10 citations · 2017
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