Papers
43
Total Citations
616
H-Index
14
About
Yan‐an Yao is a prominent robotics researcher whose work centers on the design, analysis, and locomotion of novel mobile robotic systems, with particular expertise in parallel mechanisms, reconfigurable robots, and bio-inspired locomotion. Yao's most celebrated contributions involve the development of multi-mode mobile robots built upon parallel mechanism frameworks, including reconfigurable platforms capable of switching between diverse locomotion strategies such as rolling, walking, and undulatory movement. His 2018 and 2017 papers on multi-mode mobile parallel robots have collectively garnered over 118 citations, underscoring their influence on the field of mechanism design. Yao has also pioneered innovative hybrid locomotion architectures, including a serial–parallel worm-like robot (51 citations) and deployable tetrahedron-based mobile systems constructed from Sarrus linkages. His investigations into quadruped robotics revealed how swinging appendages like heads and tails meaningfully enhance dynamic walking performance. Spanning work from triangular-bipyramid rolling robots to multi-legged obstacle-surmounting platforms, Yao's research consistently bridges theoretical kinematic analysis with practical robotic implementation. With over 330 cumulative citations across his top publications, his contributions have meaningfully advanced the design vocabulary of reconfigurable and multi-modal robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2A reconfigurable multi-mode mobile parallel robot54 citations · 2017
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- 6Dynamic rolling analysis of triangular-bipyramid robot21 citations · 2014
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- 8A reconfigurable tri-prism mobile robot with eight modes18 citations · 2018
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- 10Design and Analysis of a Multi-Legged Robot with Pitch Adjustive Units17 citations · 2021