Zhinan Zhang
Papers
7
Total Citations
176
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5
About
Dr. Zhinan Zhang is a leading researcher at the intersection of intelligent manufacturing and robotic manipulation, whose work is fundamentally reshaping how machines interact with their environment. His primary research areas span cloud manufacturing, biologically inspired design, and multi-modal perception for robotics. Dr. Zhang’s major contributions include pioneering the "cloud manufacturing paradigm with ubiquitous robotic systems" for product customization, a highly influential work with 70 citations that lays the groundwork for decentralized, flexible production. He has also advanced robotic assembly through a residual reinforcement learning method that integrates visual and force information, achieving 40 citations. His innovative use of digital twins for grasp outcomes assessment via visual-tactile fusion (23 citations) and attention-guided cross-modality fusion for grasp stability (11 citations) demonstrates his commitment to robust, real-world robotic dexterity. Notably, Dr. Zhang’s biologically inspired design of context-aware smart products (25 citations) bridges natural systems and engineering, while his recent work on learning to regrasp and generating three-finger grasps in cluttered environments showcases his ongoing leadership in creating efficient, adaptive robotic systems. His research, consistently published in top venues, is driving the next generation of intelligent, autonomous manufacturing.
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- 3Biologically Inspired Design of Context-Aware Smart Products25 citations · 2019
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