Zhirong Qiu

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Zhirong Qiu is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, specializing in cooperative localization, formation control, and autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments. His work addresses the fundamental challenge of enabling robot swarms to operate without external positioning infrastructure, relying instead on relative measurements such as inter-robot distances and self-displacement data. In his highly cited 2019 paper (70 citations), Qiu introduced a persistently excited adaptive relative localization method for time-varying formation control of robot swarms, allowing teams to follow a leader with minimal sensing requirements. His follow-up work on distance-based cooperative localization for micro aerial vehicles (54 citations) further advanced the field, providing robust solutions for MAV coordination in challenging environments. Qiu also developed an integrated localization and navigation scheme for relative docking and formation control (25 citations), enabling precise positioning without GPS. His contributions have significant implications for search-and-rescue operations, environmental monitoring, and autonomous exploration, where reliable multi-robot coordination is essential. Through his innovative approaches to relative localization and formation control, Qiu continues to push the boundaries of autonomous swarm robotics.