Yueling Shen

Southeast University, State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering

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Yueling Shen is a pioneering researcher in the field of bio-inspired robotics, with a primary focus on the mechanics and control of flapping-wing robots (FWRs). Her work addresses one of the most critical challenges in the field: achieving reliable, autonomous self-takeoff for these aerial vehicles. Shen’s major contributions center on developing novel takeoff methods inspired by large birds, which use running to gain initial velocity. She has proposed and modeled a wheeled running assisted takeoff system, integrating active tails for balancing control during the ground-based acceleration phase. This approach is detailed in her most-cited work, "Modeling and Simulation of a Flapping-Wing Robot with Active Tails for Balancing Control during Wheeled Running" (2018, 10 citations), which lays the theoretical groundwork for this innovative locomotion strategy. Building on this, her 2022 study, "A Self-Balanced Vehicle Base for Takeoff of a Flapping-Wing Robot" (3 citations), advances the concept by designing a self-balancing base that stabilizes the robot during the critical transition from ground to air. Though her citation counts are currently modest, Shen’s work is foundational for enabling FWRs to perform practical, long-duration missions in outdoor surveillance and search-and-rescue, directly tackling a key bottleneck in their real-world deployment.