Papers
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Total Citations
183
H-Index
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About
Yuyao Shi is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the design, modeling, and autonomous control of self-reconfigurable robots, with particular emphasis on cleaning and service applications. Shi's most celebrated contribution is the sTetro robot — a modular, reconfigurable staircase-cleaning platform that employs a vertical conveyor mechanism to navigate both flat surfaces and staircases, garnering over 57 combined citations across its publications. Building on this foundation, Shi has pioneered a family of tiling-inspired reconfigurable robots, including hTetrakis, a polyiamond-based design tackling narrow-space cleaning challenges, and hHoneycomb, a polyhex-inspired system leveraging tiling theory to transcend fixed-morphology limitations. A recurring theme across Shi's portfolio is energy-aware complete coverage path planning, recognizing that algorithmic efficiency is as critical as mechanical ingenuity in practical autonomous systems. More recent work expands into socially relevant domains, including human density surveillance mapping for adaptive cleaning during the COVID-19 era and the WaspL reconfigurable logistics robot for hospital environments. With nearly 180 cumulative citations, Shi's research consistently bridges theoretical modeling and real-world validation, making meaningful contributions to the emerging field of adaptable autonomous service robotics.
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- 6sTetro: A Modular Reconfigurable Cleaning Robot14 citations · 2018
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- 9Design and development of a reconfigurable tiling robot3 citations · 2021
- 10WaspL: Design of a Reconfigurable Logistic Robot for Hospital Settings3 citations · 2021