Chenkun Qi is an Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, in 2009. He received his B.E. degree in power mechanical engineering and the M.E. degree in control engineering from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. His research interests include design and control of parallel robots, design and control of multi-legged robots, design of parallel robotic mechanisms, micro-nano parallel manipulators, space docking simulation robot, distributed parameter system, system identification, and robot control.