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Xiumin Diao

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2005
Robotic Mechanisms and DynamicsRobot Manipulation and LearningSoft Robotics and ApplicationsHuman Pose and Action RecognitionDynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems

Publications

54

Citations

826

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2005

Research summary
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Xiumin Diao's research focuses on robotics, particularly cable-driven parallel robots, quadrotor/UAV systems, and machine learning methods applied to robot control and human motion understanding. Work spans mechanical design and stiffness analysis of cable-driven systems, reinforcement learning for robot control, and deep learning for predicting human intentions and actions from video data. This research combines mechanical engineering, control theory, and applied machine learning.

Cable-driven parallel robotsRobot control and reinforcement learningUAV/quadrotor design and energy efficiencyHuman intention and action prediction with deep learningMechanism design and stiffness analysis

Publication output was relatively steady and highest between 2017-2020, then declined sharply from 2021 onward, with only a few publications appearing since.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 6 publications182019: 13 publications13192020: 5 publications20212022: 3 publications22232024: 1 publication242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Neurocomputing×2
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory×2
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science×2
  • International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications×2
  • 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS)×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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