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        Dr. Fan Xu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Automation and Perception, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. For many years, she has been engaged in research on modeling and control of soft robotics and has achieved innovative theoretical results. She has published 18 high-level journal papers in the field of robotics (including IEEE Transactions and Soft Robotics), of which 12 are first-author papers and 4 are corresponding-author papers. She has also published 11 international conference papers, including 7 papers in top-tier robotics conferences such as IROS and ICRA. Her related research has received notable recognition, including the 2019 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Best Paper Award Nomination (as first author) and the First Prize of the 2021 Invention and Entrepreneurship Award for Innovation from the China Invention Association (ranked 5/5).
        Dr. XU has presided over several projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General and Youth Programs, a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and served as project leader in the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Young Scientist Program. She has also participated in major projects such as NSFC Key Programs and the National Key R&D Program. Dr. Xu was selected for the “Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Program” in 2021. She has served as Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2022, 2023, and 2024, Exhibition Chair for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025, Finance Chair for IEEE ROBIO 2022, and Registration Chair for IEEE RCAR 2022, and has been a Program Committee member for IEEE RCAR (2017–2021) and WCICA 2018.

       Selected publications (full publication list can be found on Google Scholar)
    1. Underwater Dynamic Visual Servoing for A Soft Robot Arm with Online Distortion Correction
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, J. Wang, S. Au, W. Chen
    3. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 2019
    1. Visual Servoing Pushing Control of the Soft Robot with Active Pushing Force Regulation
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen, Y. Wang, 2020
    3. Soft Robotics
    1. Underwater Dynamic Modeling for A Cable-Driven Soft Robot Arm
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, S. Au, W. Chen, Y. Miao, 2018
    3. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics
    1. Adaptive Visual Servoing for an Underwater Soft Robot Considering Refraction Effects
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen
    3. IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 2020
    1. Adaptive Visual Servoing Shape Control of A Soft Robot Manipulator Using Bézier Curve Features
    2. F. Xu, Y. Zhang, J. Sun, H. Wang*, W. Chen
    3. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 2023
    1. Hybrid Visual Servoing Control of a Soft Robot With Compliant Obstacle Avoidance
    2. F. Xu, X. Kang, H. Wang
    3. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2024
    1. Soft Robotics: Morphology and Morphology-inspired Motion Strategy
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen, Y. Wang
    3. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021
    1. Visual Servoing of a Cable-driven Soft Robot Manipulator with Shape Feature
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, W. Chen, Y. Miao
    3. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
    1. What Matters in Constructing a Visual Servoing Scheme: A Review of Key Issues and Solutions
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang, H. Gao
    3. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 2025
    1. Constrained Image-Based Visual Servoing with A Sampling-Based Planning Framework
    2. Y. Zhou, F. Xu*, Y. Zhou, Z. Zhang, H. Wang*
    3. IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, 2025
    1. Adaptive Visual Servo of Soft Robot With Interaction Estimation and Compensation
    2. X. Kang#, F. Xu#*, L. H* and H. Wang
    3. IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025
    1. Small-Scale Soft Terrestrial Robot with Electrically Driven Multi-Modal Locomotion Capability
    2. J Yang, J Zhou, F. Xu*, H Wang*
    3. Soft Robotics, 2024
    1. Adaptive Visual Servoing Control for An Underwater Soft Robot
    2. F. Xu, H. Wang*, J. Wang, W. Chen, J. Yuan
    3. Robotic Intelligence and Automation, 2018
    1. Adaptive Iterative Learning Control of Soft Robot for Beating Heart Tracking
    2. Y. Wang, Y. Liu, F. Xu*
    3. Robotic Intelligence and Automation
    1. 软体机械臂水下自适应鲁棒视觉伺服
    2. 徐璠，王贺升*
    3. 自动化学报, 2023
    1. Visual Servoing of Flexible Manipulators with Unknown Camera Intrinsic Parameters and Vibration States
    2. K. Li, F. Xu, H. Zhang, H. Wang
    3. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023
    1. Active Fault Detection of Soft Manipulator in Visual Servoing
    2. H. Gu, H. Wang*, F. Xu, Z. Liu, Weidong Chen
    3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2021
    1. Uncalibrated Visual Servoing for a Planar Two Link Rigid-Flexible Manipulator Without Joint-Space-Velocity Measurement
    2. T. Hao, H. Wang*, F. Xu, Y. Miao
    3. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2020
    1. Origami-Inspired Pneumatic Continuum Manipulator: Stiffness Modeling and Validation
    2. Z Li#, H Chen#, C Xu, F. Xu*
    3. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
    1. Zero-Shot Temporal Interaction Localization for Egocentric Videos
    2. E Zhang#, J Ma#, Y Zheng, Y Zhou, F. Xu*
    3. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
    1. RL-GSBridge: 3D Gaussian Splatting Based Real2Sim2Real Method for Robotic Manipulation Learning
    2. Y. Wu#, L. Pan#, F. Xu*, H Wang*, et al.
    3. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
    1. An Origami-Inspired Pneumatic Continuum Module with Active Variable Stiffness
    2. Z Li, H Chen*, F. Xu*, H Wang
    3. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
    1. Design, Fabrication, and Validation of Magnetic Soft Microfiber Robots with Self-Strain-Sensing Ability
    2. F. Xu, X. Kang, Z. Ma, R. He, J. Li* and H Wang*
    3. 2025 International Conference on Robotics, Control and Automation Engineering (RCAE 2025), 2025
    1. Local Pose Optimization with an Attention-Based Neural Network
    2. Y. Liu, H. Wang*, F. Xu, Weidong Chen
    3. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
    1. SeqLPD: Sequence Matching Enhanced Loop-Closure Detection Based on Large-Scale Point Cloud Description for Self-Driving Vehicles
    2. Z. Liu*, C. Suo, S. Zhou, F. Xu, et al.
    3. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
    1. Towards Collision Detection, Localization and Force Estimation for a Soft Cable-driven Manipulator
    2. Y. Wang, H. Wang*, F. Xu, W. Chen, Y. Liu
    3. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
    1. A Three-dimensional Force Estimation Method for the Cable-driven Soft Robot Based on Monocular Images
    2. X. Zhu, R. Bu, Z. Li, F. Xu*, H. Wang*
    3. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.08033
    1. DiffusionDC: Depth Completion Using Deformable Diffusion Model
    2. Z. Shen, J. Liu, H. Hu, Y. Wang and F. Xu*
    3. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), 2025
    1. Large-Scale Visual Re-localization through Cross-Modality Registration of NeRF and Image Features
    2. Y. Sha, J. Liu, G. Wang, H. Hu, Y. Wang and F. Xu*
    3. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), 2025