Selected Publications
For the full list of publications, please refer to Google Scholar.
2022
J. Sun and J. Zhao
Physics-based Modeling of Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators Using Cosserat Rod Theory
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, In press, 2022.
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2021
H. Zhang, E. Lerner, B. Cheng, andJ. Zhao,
Compliant Bistable Grippers Enable Passive Perchingfor Micro Aerial Vehicles,
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, no. 5, pp.2316-2326, 2021.
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J. Sun, B. Tighe, Y. Liu, and J. Zhao
Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions
Soft Robotics, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021.
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2020
Y. Tang, Y. Chi, J. Sun, T. Huang, O. H. Maghsoudi, A. Spence, J. Zhao, H. Su, J. Yin
Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots
Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 19, pp. eaaz6912, 2020.
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J. Sun, B. Tighe, and J. Zhao
Tuning the Energy Landscape of Soft Robots for Fast and StrongMotion
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 10082-10088.
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2019
B. Pawlowski, J. Sun, J. Xu, Y. Liu, and J. Zhao
Modeling of Soft Robots Actuated by Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 5-15,2019.
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P. Liu, S. P. Sane, J.-M. Mongeau, J. Zhao, and B. Cheng
Flies land upside down on a ceiling using rapid visually-mediated rotational maneuvers
Science Advances, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. eaax1877, 2019.
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J. Sun and J. Zhao
An Adaptive Walking Robot with Reconfigurable Mechanisms using ShapeMorphing Joints
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 724 – 731, 2019.
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H. Zhang, B. Cheng, and J. Zhao
Optimal trajectory generation for time-to-contact based aerial robotic perching
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 016008, 2019.
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H. Zhang, J. Sun, and J. Zhao
Compliant Bistable Gripper for Aerial Perching and Grasping,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, pp. 1248-1253.
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2018
A. DeMario and J. Zhao
Development and Analysis of a 3D-Printed Miniature Walking Robot with Soft Joints and Links
ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 041005
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J. Sun, B. Pawlowski, and J. Zhao
Embedded and Controllable Shape Morphing with Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, pp. 5912-5917. (Finalist for the best student paper award)
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2017
H. Zhang and J. Zhao
Bio-inspired Vision-Based Robot Control Using Featureless Estimations of Time-to-Contact
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 025001, 2017.
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A. Abbas and J. Zhao
A Physics Based Model for Coiled and Twisted Actuator
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, pp. 6121–6126.
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