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Total Citations
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About
Yinan Xu is a robotics and systems engineering researcher whose work spans automotive communication protocols, autonomous space robotics, and intelligent navigation systems. Early in their career, Xu made notable contributions to vehicular networking, developing implementations of the FlexRay communication controller protocol — a fault-tolerant, high-speed standard for automotive electronic systems — work that has garnered 16 and 2 citations respectively across two complementary publications. Xu's research trajectory has since expanded ambitiously into lunar exploration and space robotics, with contributions to NASA's Artemis Program ecosystem including autonomous systems for lunar launch and landing pad preparation, robot swarm modeling for mining base construction, and co-evolutionary approaches to multi-robot controllers for off-world excavation. Their 2021 paper on lunar pits and lava tubes as potential human habitats reflects a compelling interdisciplinary vision bridging engineering and planetary science. Xu has also explored big data-driven indoor positioning for mobile robot navigation using Apache Spark, demonstrating versatility across domains. With cumulative citations spanning robotics, space systems, and embedded communications, Xu represents a researcher steadily building influence at the frontier of autonomous systems for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications.
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- 4Lunar Pits and Lava Tubes for a Modern Ark5 citations · 2021
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- 8ISRU Pilot Excavator Wheel Testing in Lunar Regolith Simulant2 citations · 2024
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