Publications

2026

Figure 1 overview of rotation-control structures and their functional categoriesNonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review.
Y. Liang, J. An, X. Zheng, D. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhu, J. Pei, S. Li, J. Paripurana, Y. Han, Z. Tang, X. Gan, Q. He, and X. Ma.
Advanced Robotics Research, e202500095, 2026

2025

Two quadruped mobile manipulators carrying a shared objectShared Object Manipulation with a Team of Collaborative Quadrupeds.
Shengzhi Wang, Niels Dehio, Xuanqi Zeng, Xian Yang, Lingwei Zhang, Yun-Hui Liu, and K. W. Samuel Au.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00682, 2025; accepted to the American Control Conference (ACC), 2026
DEEQR performing the simulated bomb-disposal task shown in Figure 8(a)A Dexterity and Exploration Enhanced Quadruped Robot With a Multi-Functional Retractable Variable Stiffness Manipulator.
Xuchen Wang, Yiying Liang, Shengzhi Wang, Jing Shu, Wenkai Lai, Zhanpeng Huang, Puchen Zhu, Jiajun An, Jianshu Zhou, and Xin Ma.
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 30(4): 3028–3036, 2025
Quadruped robot equipped with the soft variable-stiffness prehensile tailBio-Inspired Soft Variable-Stiffness Prehensile Tail Enabling Versatile Grasping and Enhancing Dynamic Mobility.
Jiajun An, Huayu Zhang, Shengzhi Wang, Zelin Li, Han Lin, Zihan Oliver Zeng, Qing Wen, Xingming Gan, Dongming Gan, Upinder Kaur, and Xin Ma.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(6): 5753–5760, 2025
Dual-quadruped bimanual teleoperation experimentDual-Quadruped Bimanual Teleoperation with Camera-Frame Control.
Shengzhi Wang, Vincent Schorp, Chen Song, Yuni Fuchioka, Andrei Cramariuc, Marco Hutter, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IROS Workshop on Augmentative Human-Robot Interaction: From Human Augmentation to Human-Inspired Collaboration, 2025

2024

Figure 1(a) rescue scenario for the visual exploration-enhanced quadruped robotVisual Exploration-Enhanced Quadruped Robot with Active-Passive Composite Telescope Mechanism.
Xuchen Wang, Shengzhi Wang, Yiying Liang, Jiajun An, Puchen Zhu, Weibing Li, Jianshu Zhou, and Xin Ma.
International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Automatic Control (IRAC), pp. 198–202, 2024
Upper-row Figure 2 side view showing multi-plane kangaroo rat aerial reorientationFrom Behavior to Bio-Inspiration: Aerial Reorientation and Multi-Plane Stability in Kangaroo Rats, Computational Models, and Robots.
Xiangyu Chu, M. Janneke Schwaner, Jiajun An, Shengzhi Wang, Craig P. McGowan, and K. W. Samuel Au.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64(3): 661–673, 2024

2023

Biped robot running over rough terrainLegged Robot Running on Rough Terrains Based on Norm Regulation of Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum Model.
C. H. David Lo, C. Y. Giselle Wong, Wee Shen Ng, Shengzhi Wang, Xiangyu Chu, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 1–8, 2023
Falling robot reorienting with a tail and reaction wheelCombining Tail and Reaction Wheel for Underactuated Spatial Reorientation in Robot Falling With Quadratic Programming.
Xiangyu Chu, Shengzhi Wang, Raymond Ng, Chun Yin Fan, Jiajun An, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(11): 7783–7790, 2023
Mobile manipulator spreading a large clothModel-Free Large-Scale Cloth Spreading With Mobile Manipulation: Initial Feasibility Study.
*Xiangyu Chu, *Shengzhi Wang, Minjian Feng, Jiaxi Zheng, Yuxuan Zhao, Jing Huang, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2023
Quadruped interaction-force control experimentTowards Exact Interaction Force Control for Underactuated Quadrupedal Systems with Orthogonal Projection and Quadratic Programming.
Shengzhi Wang, Xiangyu Chu, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
Quadruped robot using a morphable tail to prepare for landingTowards Safe Landing of Falling Quadruped Robots Using a 3-DoF Morphable Inertial Tail.
Yunxi Tang, Jiajun An, Xiangyu Chu, Shengzhi Wang, Ching Yan Wong, and K. W. Samuel Au.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1141–1147, 2023

2021

Biped walking with online virtual repellent point adaptationOnline Virtual Repellent Point Adaptation for Biped Walking using Iterative Learning Control.
Shengzhi Wang, George Mesesan, Johannes Englsberger, Dongheui Lee, and Christian Ott.
IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2021
Robot mirror self-recognition experimentRobot in the Mirror: Toward an Embodied Computational Model of Mirror Self-Recognition.
M. Hoffmann, S. Wang, V. Outrata, E. Alzueta, and P. Lanillos.
KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 2021

* Equal authorship