Granular Loco-Manipulation: Repositioning Rocks Through Strategic Sand Avalanche
H. Hu, Y. Wu, D. Seita*, F. Qian*, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) , 2025.
Characterizing Robot-Ground Interactions for Autonomous Lunar Construction
R. Holladay, S. Misra, M. Mitchell, A. R. Panyam, E. P. Santos, J. D. Caporale, S. Liu, Y. Zhang, J. Ruck, D. J. Jerolmack, F. Qian, M. Yim, and C. Sung, submitted to the 19th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2025.
Towards Making Every Step an Experiment: Effect of Robot Gait Speed on Characterizing Regolith Properties by Walking
Y. Zhang , E. Fulcher , J. D. Caporale, and F. Qian, 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2025).
Learning Granular Media Avalanche Behavior for Indirectly Manipulating Obstacles on a Granular Slope
H. Hu, F. Qian, D. Seita, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) , 2024
Modelling Experts’ Sampling Strategy to Balance Multiple Objectives During Scientific Explorations
S. Liu, C. G. Wilson, Z. I. Lee, and F. Qian, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024.
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LASSIE: Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments
K. R. Fisher, F. Qian , D. Jerolmack, F. Rivera-Hernandez, C. Wilson, R.C. Ewing, M. Nachon, T. Shipley, and D. Koditschek, 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2023).
Understanding Human Decision Making in Robot-Assisted Field Data Collection
S. Liu, C. G. Wilson, T. F. Shipley, D. E. Koditschek, and F. Qian, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2021.
Spatially and temporally distributed data foraging decisions in disciplinary fIeld science
C. Wilson, F. Qian, D. J. Jerolmack, S. Roberts, J. Ham, D. E. Koditschek and T. F. Shipley, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6.1 (2021): 1-16.
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A Mode Map Representation to Predict Steady States and Basins of Attraction for Legged Locomotion on Obstacle Terrains
H. Hu, M. Kvalheim, M. Joyce, S. Wilshin, A. Spence, F. Qian, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) workshop, 2020
Rapid in-situ characterization of soil erodibility with a field deployable robot
F. Qian, D. B. Lee, G. Nikolich, D. E. Koditschek, and D. J. Jerolmack, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 124.5 (2019): 1261-1280.
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An obstacle disturbance selection framework: emergent robot steady states under repeated collisions
F. Qian and D. E. Koditschek, The International Journal of Robotics Research (2019): 0278364920935514.
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Dynamics of scattering in undulatory active collisions
J. M. Rieser, P. E. Schiebel, A. Pazouki, F. Qian, Z. Goddard, A. Zangwill, D. Negrut, and D. I. Goldman, Physical Review E 99.2 (2019): 022606.
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Ground robotic measurement of aeolian processes
F. Qian, D. J. Jerolmack, N. Lancaster, G. Nikolich, P. Reverdy, S. F. Roberts, T. Shipley, R. S. Van Pelt, T. M. Zobeck, and D. E. Koditschek, Aeolian Research, 27 (2017): 1-11.
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A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems
J. Aguilar, T. Zhang, F. Qian, M. Kingsbury, B. Mclnroe, N. Mazouchova, C. Li, R. Maladen, C. Gong, M. Travers, R. L. Hatton, H. Choset, P. Umbanhowar, and D. I. Goldman, Reports on Progress in Physics, 79 110001 (2016).
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The dynamics of legged locomotion in heterogeneous terrain: universality in scattering and sensitivity to initial conditions
F. Qian and D. I. Goldman, in Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Rome, Italy, 2015.
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Anticipatory control using substrate manipulation enables trajectory control of legged locomotion on heterogeneous granular media
F. Qian and D. I. Goldman, Proc. SPIE, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VII, Vol. 9467, p. 1-12, 2015.
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An automated system for systematic testing of locomotion on heterogeneous granular media
F. Qian, K. Daffon, T. Zhang, and D. I. Goldman, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR), Sydney, Australia, 2013.
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Ground fluidization promotes rapid running of a lightweight robot
T. Zhang, F. Qian, C. Li, P. Masarati, A. Hoover, P. Birkmeyer, A. Pullin, R. S. Fearing, and D. I. Goldman, International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 32, 859 (2013).
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