Yiqing Luan

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Yiqing Luan is a robotics engineer whose work focuses on automating the inspection of electrical substations, a critical task for maintaining grid reliability. Her research spans navigation, motion control, and manipulator kinematics for specialized inspection robots. Luan’s most impactful contribution is the design of a laser navigation system for substation inspection robots (2013, 17 citations), which replaced less flexible magnetic guide and RFID parking systems with a prototype based on the NAV200 sensor. This work directly addressed a key limitation in existing inspection robots. She further advanced the field by developing the motion control system for an omnidirectional four-drive mobile robot (2019, 6 citations), enabling a single robot to inspect both indoor and outdoor substation equipment. To support partial discharge detection in high-voltage switch cabinets, Luan also built and simulated the kinematic model of a 4-DOF manipulator using the Denavit-Hartenberg method (2017, 4 citations). Her integrated approach—from navigation and locomotion to manipulation—demonstrates a comprehensive effort to create fully autonomous, versatile inspection platforms for the power industry.