Yimeng Qin

Yimeng Qin is a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, affiliated with the CHARM Lab led by Professor Allison Okamura. His work focuses on the design, control, and modeling of soft growing vine robots for navigation and inspection in confined environments such as pipes, burrows, and nuclear material storage facilities. He has published on 3D steering and localization for vine robots, hermetic transparent vine robot systems for pipe inspection, and autonomous deployment of vine robots in GPS-denied environments.