Publications

Journals:

Effective Estimation of Contact Force and Torque for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors With Helmholtz–Hodge Decomposition
Yazhan Zhang, Zicheng Kan, Yang Yang, Alexander Yu Tse, Michael Yu Wang. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IROS 2019.

Hybrid Jamming for Bio-inspired Soft Robotic Fingers
Yang Yang*, Yazhan Zhang*, Zicheng Kan, Michael Yu Wang. Soft Robotics, 2019.

Conferences:

Toward Learning to Detect and Predict Contact Events on Vision-based Tactile Sensor
Yazhan Zhang, Weihao Yuan, Zicheng Kan, Michael Yu Wang. The 3rd Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2019 (Oral Presentation 5%).

Effective Estimation of Contact Force and Torque for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors With Helmholtz–Hodge Decomposition
Yazhan Zhang, Zicheng Kan, Yang Yang, Alexander Yu Tse, Michael Yu Wang. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IROS 2019.

A Low-cost Inchworm-inspired Soft Robot Driven by Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscle
Yang Yang, Alexander Yu Tse, Yazhan Zhang, Zicheng Kan, Michael Yu Wang. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2019.

An Origami-Inspired Monolithic Soft Gripper Based on Geometric Design Method
Zicheng Kan, Yazhan Zhang, Alexander Yu Tse, Michael Yu Wang. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2019.

A Novel Variable Stiffness Actuator Based on Pneumatic Actuation and Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscles
Yang, Yang, Zicheng Kan, Yazhan Zhang, Yu Alexander Tse, and Michael Yu Wang. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019..

* denotes authors with equal contribution.

Patents:

US. Patent “A Tactile Sensor Skin inspired by Compound Eye” is under issuing and to be released.