Yazhan Zhang

Yazhan Zhang

Ph.D. student, Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Personal Information

  • Currently, I am a Ph.D candidate in the Robotics Institute at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Yu Wang.
  • My research interests include robotic tactile sensing, manipulation, and bridging learning mechanisms to real robotic tasks. In detail, I have been developing a vision-based tactile sensor called FingerVision from low-level sensor driver to high-level sensor signal interpretation algorithms in the POV of robotic manipulation. Besides, I also investigated a new manipulation method call Top-pressing Sliding (TPS), interested ones can refer to my publications.
  • I graduated as B.E. from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014, and M.S. from National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU) in 2016, advised by Prof. Yeh, Ting-Jen on dynamic system control.

Updates

  • Paper titled “Hybrid Jamming for Bio-inspired Soft Robotic Fingers” was accepted to Soft Robotics Journal.

  • Paper titled “Data-efficient Top-Pressing Sliding for Planar Manipulation” was submitted to 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

  • Paper titled “Outwards Shoving: A Bio-inspired Modularized Spiral Pneumatic Arm Design with A Novel Grasping Mode” was submitted to 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

  • Paper titled “Toward Learning to Detect and Predict Contact Events on Vision-based Tactile Sensor” was accepted to Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) - 2019.
  • Paper titled “Effective Estimation of Contact Force and Torque for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors With Helmholtz–Hodge Decomposition” was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Journal) and 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  • Paper titled “A Low-cost Inchworm-inspired Soft Robot Driven by Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscle” was accepted to 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).
  • Paper titled “An Origami-Inspired Monolithic Soft Gripper Based on Geometric Design Method” was accepted to 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).
  • Paper titled “A Novel Variable Stiffness Actuator Based on Pneumatic Actuation and Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscles” was accepted to 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).