Papers
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Total Citations
143
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About
Tzu-Chen Liang is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot path planning, redundant manipulator trajectory planning, and multi-robot coordination. His most influential contribution, "Practical and Flexible Path Planning for Car-Like Mobile Robots Using Maximal-Curvature Cubic Spiral" (2005, 63 citations), established him as a notable voice in kinematically constrained path generation, introducing cubic spiral-based methods that elegantly balance curvature bounds with computational efficiency — a practical advance for real-world autonomous navigation. A significant thread of Liang's research addresses the challenge of redundant manipulators operating in confined workspaces. Through multiple publications between 1999 and 2003, he refined pseudo-inverse null-space projection techniques with switching objective functions, improving both safety and dexterity in cluttered environments, accumulating roughly 36 citations across these works. He also applied his motion planning expertise to multi-robot soccer systems, developing cyclic ball-passing strategies and distributed simulation frameworks that demonstrated integrated planning and control in dynamic, real-time settings. Together, these contributions reflect a researcher dedicated to bridging theoretical kinematics with deployable robotic solutions, making his work valuable reading for students exploring autonomous systems, robot motion planning, and cooperative robotics.
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- 7Collision-free Path Planning for Mobile Robot Using Cubic Spiral3 citations · 2005
- 8A Distributed Mobile Robot Simulator and a Ball Passing Strategy3 citations · 2002
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