Xiaocun Liao (廖晓村)
Xiaocun Liao (廖晓村)

Associate Professor, PhD

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
liaoxiaocun2019@ia.ac.cn | xiaocun.liao@ia.ac.cn

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The Journal of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (JRIS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal. The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, technical notes, and case studies in robotics, intelligent systems, automation, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and related interdisciplinary fields. Detailed information can be found here.

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The Special Issue (Advances in Autonomous Mobile Robots: Technologies, Control, and Applications) of the Journal Electronics (SCI, JCR Q2, IF: 2.9) organized by me and my Colleagues has just been published online. The aspects of autonomous robots (like autonomous vehicles, underwater vehicle, bio-inspired robots) include, but are not limited to, the following: mechanism design, dynamics modeling, intelligent control, artificial intelligence. Please stay tuned and welcome to submit your papers. Detailed information can be found here.

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  • Long-term: Our group is open to doctoral students and master's students, and the research fields include biomimetic underwater robotic design, robotic control, and underwater vision, etc. Also, our group recruits interns all year round. Please contact me by e-mail at any time.
  • 2026-07: 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Liao on his promotion to associate professor.
  • 2026-06: The paper titled "Non-Parametric Kinematic Optimization of Flapping Foil Propulsion Using a Discrete Adjoint Method" was accepted by Biomimetics (As the corresponding author).
  • 2026-01: The paper titled "Robotic fish with tunable stiffness soft tail based on bionic spinal muscle system" was accepted by Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (As the fifth author).
  • 2025-10: The paper titled "SSDVM: A Sliding Strip Discrete Vortex Method Applied to Hydrodynamic Calculations for Robotic Fish" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (As the third author).
  • 2025-07: The application for National Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China as the project leader was funded.
  • 2025-07: The application for General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China as the project participant was funded.
  • 2025-07: The application for Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade C) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation as the project leader was funded.
  • 2025-06: The paper titled "Combination of C-Turn and Online Variable Stiffness Enables Sharp Turning Maneuvers for Robotic Fish" was accepted by IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (As the first author).
  • 2024-02: The paper titled "A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming" was accepted by Soft robotics (As the first author).
  • 2023-10: The paper titled "A Wire-Driven Dual Elastic Fishtail With Energy Storing and Passive Flexibility" was accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (As the first author).
  • 2022-12: The paper titled "A Wire-driven Elastic Robotic Fish and its Design and CPG-Based Control" was accepted by Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (As the first author).
  • 2022-07: The paper titled "Dynamic Modeling and Performance Analysis for a Wire-Driven Elastic Robotic Fish" was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (As the first author).
  • 2021-08: The paper titled "An Elastic Biomimetic Fish Tail and Its Undulation Fitting Method ofBody Wave" was accepted by Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (As the first author).

Funding✨ ✨ ✨

  • Projects Hosted
  • National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China, 2026-2028, ¥ 300,000
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade C) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2025-2027, ¥ 240,000
  • Projects Involved
  • Key Project of Technological Frontiers of China, 2021-2025, ¥ 55,700,000
  • Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2026, ¥ 3,010,000
  • General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2026-2029, ¥ 500,000
  • General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2027-2030, ¥ 500,000
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China , 2024-2027, ¥ 1,188,000
  • Project of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, 2023-2024, ¥ 1,800,000
  • Key Program Project of China Academy of Sciences, 2022-2023, ¥ 1,500,000