Books and Book Chapters

Ship as Wave Buoy: Data-Driven Sea State Estimation Based on Ship Motion Data
Xu Cheng, Mengna Liu, Fan Shi, Xiufeng Liu, Houxiang Zhang, Shengyong Chen
Springer Series on Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and Shipping series, Springer Verlag, 2026.
Digital Twins for Vessel Life Cycle Service-Innovation in Maritime Industry
Houxiang Zhang, Guoyuan Li, Hans Petter Hildre
Springer Nature, 2026.
Mental Fatigue Assessment in Demanding Marine Operations
Thiago Gabriel Monteiro, Houxiang Zhang
Springer Nature.
Bio-Inspired Locomotion Control of Limbless Robots
Guoyuan Li, Houxiang Zhang and Jianwei Zhang
Springer Nature, 2023.
Climbing & Walking Robots Towards New Applications
Houxiang Zhang (Chief Editor)
I-Tech Education and Publishing, Oct. 01, 2007.
Case studies in digital twins
Bentley James Oakes, Houxiang Zhang, Lars Ivar Hatledal, Hao Feng, Mirgita Frasheri, Michael Sandberg, Santiago Gil and Cláudio Gomes
in Fitzgerald, J., Gomes, C., Larsen, P.G. (eds) The Engineering of Digital Twins, Springer, Cham, 2024.
A Bio-inspired Small-sized Wall-climbing Caterpillar Robot
Houxiang Zhang, Wei Wang, Jianwei Zhang
Mechatronic Systems Applications, InTech, Mar. 01, 2010.
A Novel Modular Mobile Robot Prototype for Urban Search and Rescue
Houxiang Zhang, Wei Wang, Guanghua Zong, Jianwei Zhang
Service Robot Applications. InTech, Aug. 01, 2008.
A Reconfigurable Mobile Robots System Based on Parallel Mechanism
Wei Wang, Houxiang Zhang, Guanghua Zong, Zhicheng Deng
Parallel Manipulators, towards New Applications. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Apr. 01, 2008.
Locomotion Principles of 1D Topology Pitch and Pitch-Yaw-Connecting Modular Robots
Juan Gonzalez-Gomez, Houxiang Zhang, Eduardo Boemo
Bioinspiration and Robotics Walking and Climbing Robots. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Sept. 01, 2007.
A Novel Autonomous Climbing Robot for Cleaning an Elliptic Half-shell
Houxiang Zhang, Rong Liu, Guanghua Zong, Jianwei Zhang
Mobile Robots: towards New Applications. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Dec. 01, 2006.

Publications

Showing selected works from 2020-2026. See full list on Google Scholar.

Multi-Branch Perturbation Learning with Constraint Simulation for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Ruyu Liu, Feng Xiao, Jianhua Zhang, Houxiang Zhang
Pattern Recognition, Vol. 171, Part A, 2026.
Cascaded State Space and Contrastive Learning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
Feng Xiao, Jianhua Zhang, Houxiang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Dec. 2025.
Knowledge Extraction from Decision-Making Data for Maritime Navigation Support
Weiwei Tian, Beatriz Sanguino, Houxiang Zhang
Ocean Engineering, Vol. 331, Jul. 2025.
Robotic Safe Adaptation in Unprecedented Situations: the RoboSAPIENS Project
Peter G. Larsen, Houxiang Zhang
Research Directions: Cyber-Physical Systems, Jan. 2024.