Weixu Zhu
Papers
7
Total Citations
99
H-Index
6
About
Weixu Zhu is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and multi-robot systems, with a focus on self-organization, formation control, and cooperative sensor fusion. Their work bridges the gap between decentralized swarm intelligence and centralized efficiency, particularly in heterogeneous teams of UAVs and ground robots. Zhu’s most-cited paper, “Formation Control of UAVs and Mobile Robots Using Self-organized Communication Topologies” (22 citations), introduces scalable communication architectures for aerial-ground coordination. Their open-source UAV platform for swarm robotics (21 citations) provides a critical tool for the community, enabling inter-robot tracking through cooperative sensor fusion. Zhu also developed the self-organizing nervous system (SoNS) architecture (14 citations), which allows robot swarms to autonomously establish and reconfigure dynamic hierarchies—a breakthrough for adaptive multi-robot construction and coverage tasks. Their recent work (2025) systematically compares centralized vs. decentralized sweep coverage, offering practical guidance for deploying swarms in real-world scenarios. With over 100 total citations and contributions to open-source platforms like SRoCS, Zhu’s research is shaping the future of resilient, scalable, and deployable swarm robotics systems.
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- 3An open-source multi-robot construction system16 citations · 2018
- 4Self-organizing nervous systems for robot swarms14 citations · 2024
- 5Multi-robot Coverage Using Self-organized Networks for Central Coordination12 citations · 2020
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