Liang Yan

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
230 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Liang Yan is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang Yan has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 103 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 67 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liang Yan's work include Electric Motor Design and Analysis (87 papers), Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (61 papers) and Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (27 papers). Liang Yan is often cited by papers focused on Electric Motor Design and Analysis (87 papers), Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (61 papers) and Piezoelectric Actuators and Control (27 papers). Liang Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United Kingdom. Liang Yan's co-authors include Zongxia Jiao, I‐Ming Chen, Dawei Ma, Jianyong Yao, Quan Pan, Lei Zhang, Shenlong Wang, Chee Kian Lim, Chin-Yin Chen and Guilin Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Liang Yan

203 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

High-Accuracy Tracking Control of Hydraulic Rotary Actuators With Modeling Uncertainties

2013 434 citations Zongxia Jiao, Liang Yan et al. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics profile →
Semi-coupled dictionary learning with applications to image super-resolution and photo-sketch synthesis

2012 396 citations Liang Yan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang Yan China	24	1.4k	1.2k	962	534	501	230	3.0k
Xiang Zhong China	21	757 0.5×	706 0.6×	481 0.5×	325 0.6×	295 0.6×	103	2.1k
Chia-Hsiang Menq United States	41	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	404 0.4×	847 1.6×	578 1.2×	145	4.3k
Xinkai Chen Japan	38	3.7k 2.6×	477 0.4×	583 0.6×	378 0.7×	321 0.6×	235	4.8k
Tsu‐Chin Tsao United States	34	3.3k 2.3×	2.2k 1.9×	513 0.5×	990 1.9×	170 0.3×	237	4.9k
David L. Trumper United States	27	1.7k 1.2×	868 0.7×	998 1.0×	982 1.8×	88 0.2×	109	3.0k
Yuhua Cheng China	36	770 0.5×	591 0.5×	3.1k 3.2×	666 1.2×	102 0.2×	240	5.0k
G. Betta Italy	30	666 0.5×	728 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	256 0.5×	159 0.3×	147	2.5k
Zhen Zhang China	28	550 0.4×	615 0.5×	2.5k 2.7×	458 0.9×	49 0.1×	162	3.3k
Kuang–Chao Fan Taiwan	32	366 0.3×	2.1k 1.8×	962 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	950 1.9×	234	3.4k
Andrew J. Fleming Australia	45	3.2k 2.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	2.3k 4.4×	115 0.2×	253	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Liang Yan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liang Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liang Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liang Yan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Liang Yan. Liang Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2025). Structural Topology Design for Electromagnetic Performance Enhancement of Permanent-Magnet Machines. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 38(1). 10 indexed citations

Yan, Liang, Nannan Du, Xiaoshuai Liu, et al.. (2025). Development of a Radial-Flux Machine With Multi-Shaped Magnet Rotor and Non-Ferromagnetic Yoke for Low Torque Ripple and Rotor Mass. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 61(2). 2897–2910. 12 indexed citations

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2025). Development of a PM Spherical Actuator With Tiltable Stator for High Torque Density. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. 11(4). 9740–9752.

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2025). Tactile Skewness Analysis and Contact State Recognition by Fusing Tactile and Wrist Force for Flexible Printed Circuits Assembly Task. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 74. 1–11.

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2025). Attitude Measurement and Zero Offset Calibration for a Novel Spherical Actuator With Tiltable Stator. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 74. 1–9.

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2024). Multimaterial Topology Optimization Method of Surface-Mounted PMSM Rotor Poles Based on Variable Density Representation. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 30(1). 436–446. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Yuchen, et al.. (2024). Hybrid Analytical-Numerical Electromagnetic Vibration Calculation Method for Surface-Inserted PMSMs With Skewed Slots. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 39(4). 2654–2663. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Liang, et al.. (2024). Design and Modeling Analysis of a Novel Propulsion Electric Machine With Variable Magnetic Pole Topology. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 72(6). 5602–5612.

Wang, Minmin, Liang Yan, Jia Wang, Yinzi Jin, & Zhi‐Jie Zheng. (2023). Global burden of hepatitis B attributable to modifiable risk factors from 1990 to 2019: a growing contribution and its association with socioeconomic status. Globalization and Health. 19(1). 23–23. 14 indexed citations

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Dong, Ziwei, Liang Yan, Hang Su, & I‐Ming Chen. (2023). Design and Analysis of a Novel Electromagnetic-Propulsion Rotary Machine With External Blending-Shaped Tessellation Magnet Pattern. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 71(2). 1355–1364. 4 indexed citations

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Yan, Liang, et al.. (2023). Millirobot Based on a Phase-Transformable Magnetorheological Liquid Metal. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(31). 37658–37667. 12 indexed citations

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Yan, Liang, et al.. (2023). Development of a Novel Radial-Flux Machine With Enhanced Torque Profile Employing Quasi-Cylindrical PM Pattern. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 38(4). 2772–2783. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Gang, et al.. (2023). Robust Calibration Approach for Robot Base Coordinate System Based on RANSAC-SVD. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 72. 1–9. 4 indexed citations

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Dong, Ziwei, Liang Yan, & Chris Gerada. (2022). Magnetic Field and Radial Force Analysis of Six-Phase Rotary Machine. 2(3).

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Gao, Xiaoshan, Liang Yan, Gang Wang, & I‐Ming Chen. (2022). Modeling and Analysis of Magnetic Adhesion Module for Wall-climbing Robot. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 1–1. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fengyu, David Gerada, Zeyuan Xu, et al.. (2021). Electrical Machine Slot Thermal Condition Effects on Back-Iron Extension Thermal Benefits. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. 7(4). 2927–2938. 16 indexed citations

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Yan, Liang, et al.. (2021). Thermal Analysis of a Novel Linear Oscillating Machine Based on Direct Oil-Cooling Windings. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 37(2). 1042–1051. 15 indexed citations

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Yan, Liang, et al.. (2021). Robust Adaptive Control Based on Variable Boundary for a Twin-Motor Cable-Driven System. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 69(7). 7054–7063. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Liang, et al.. (2018). Magnetic Field Modeling and Analysis of Spherical Actuator With Two-Dimensional Longitudinal Camber Halbach Array. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 66(12). 9112–9121. 24 indexed citations

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Jiao, Zongxia, Tianyi Wang, & Liang Yan. (2016). Design of a Tubular Linear Oscillating Motor With a Novel Compound Halbach Magnet Array. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 22(1). 498–508. 45 indexed citations

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