Research on motion planning system for wall-climbing mobile manipulator for large steel structures welding operation

Yan Xu received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University, Liaoning province, China, in 2020. She is currently pursuing the PhD degree in the College of Computer and Control Engineering, Northeast Forestry University. Her current research focuses on robot motion planning, high-precision trajectory planning and composite robot control.

Yaqiu Liu received the PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology University. Currently, he is a Professor at College of Computer and Control Engineering, Northeast Forestry University. His current research interests include process control, robot control, trajectory and motion planning.

Xun Liu received the PhD degree from the College of Computer and Control Engineering, Northeast Forestry University. He is a Postdoc in mechanical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include robot control, motion planning and control algorithm.

Baoyu Wang received master’s degree in engineering mechanics from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian city, Liaoning province, China, in 2010. He is pursuing PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, China. His fields of study include stiffness modeling, structural optimization and finite element analysis. His research interests are hybrid robot, parallel robot and wall-climbing robot.

Lin Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, received the BSc degree in mechanical engineering and automation and PhD in mechanical manufacturing and automation from China University of Mining and Technology. He was Joint PhD at University of California San Diego. He is currently working in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research interests are climbing robotics, intelligent sensing, metamorphotic theory, sensorless sensing and reinforment robot learning.

Zhengwen Nie, PhD, received BSc degree in industrial design from Northeastern University and MASc degree in mechanical engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of British Columbia. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow for Professor Yusuf Altintas. He is currently working in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include computer-aided manufacturing, collision detection and virtual machining.