Yachao Dong

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Yachao Dong’s research bridges robotics and process systems engineering, with a focus on inspection and manipulation in hazardous environments, particularly nuclear power plants. His early work on a novel nuclear station inspection robot (2014, 7 citations) addressed the critical challenge of inspecting steam generators, where dense tube bundles make human entry impossible. This contribution laid the groundwork for safer, automated nuclear maintenance. Expanding on this, his kinematic analysis of a 4-DOF underwater manipulator (2013, 3 citations) enabled remote examination and salvage of foreign objects in reactor cores and pools, directly enhancing operational safety. More recently, Dong has advanced chemical process modeling with a new time sampling strategy for estimating parameters in Dynamic Response Surface Models (2020, 4 citations). This work improves the efficiency of automated laboratory reactor systems, allowing robotic sampling to yield more accurate kinetic data. Across his career, Dong’s contributions have been recognized for their practical impact on nuclear safety and process automation, demonstrating a unique ability to apply robotics to both extreme environments and precision chemical analysis.