Journal Papers

A Multi-string and Wireline-coring Drilling Robot for Planetary Regolith Sampling

Jiabin Liu, Minhui Ye, Jinchang Xu, Tao Zhang, et al.

Advances in Space Research, January 2025

SCI Q2

Progress and Perspective of Seafloor Regolith-Sampling Robots for Ocean Exploration

Jiabin Liu, Minhui Ye, Haifei Zhu, et al.

Journal of Field Robotics, 2024

SCI Q2

Conference Papers

Control System Design of a Multi-Rod Drilling Robot for Planetary Exploration

Minhui Ye, Jiabin Liu, Jinchang Xu, Kun Xu, Haifei Zhu, Yisheng Guan, Tao Zhang

IEEE 19th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Kristiansand, Norway, August 2024

Presents the design and implementation of a multi-rod drilling robot control system with EtherCAT + Modbus dual-bus architecture for planetary regolith exploration.

EI First Author

Mechanism Design of a Multi-functional Drilling End-effector for Extraterrestrial Regolith Sampling

Haonan Deng, Jiabin Liu, Riyue Wu, Minhui Ye, et al.

Conference Paper, August 2023


Degree Thesis

Control, Planning, and Formation Identification for a Multi-Rod Planetary Regolith Drilling Robot

Minhui Ye (Advisor: Prof. Tao Zhang)

School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, 2026

Develops an integrated control platform, a Petri-net-based cooperative scheduling model, a multi-component coupled drilling-load analytical model, and a physics-guided deep learning method for online formation identification in multi-rod planetary regolith drilling.

Master's Thesis

Patents

A Multi-Rod Docking Drilling Device, Control System and Control Method

CN119266742A, 2025

A Drilling Tool with Integrated Temperature Measurement System

CN117432351A, 2024

A Lunar Regolith Sample Storage Container

CN118618736A, 2024

A Multi-Rod Detachable Rotary Percussion Screw Drilling Rig

CN117166911A, 2023

An Electronic Monitoring Device

CN215453137U, 2022