Papers
11
Total Citations
288
H-Index
9
About
Jyh-Jone Lee is a robotics and mechanical engineering researcher whose career has been defined by pioneering contributions to the analysis, synthesis, and control of tendon-driven robotic mechanisms. Working at the intersection of kinematics, mechanism theory, and robotic systems, Lee established foundational methodologies for understanding how tendons transmit power in anthropomorphic manipulators. His early work applying graph theory to kinematic structure analysis (1989, 48 citations) laid the groundwork for his landmark 1991 study on structural synthesis using pseudotriangular matrices (68 citations), which remains his most influential contribution. Together, these papers provided the field with rigorous tools for identifying and enumerating tendon-driven mechanism configurations. Lee subsequently extended this framework to address flexible tendons, dynamic modeling, and singular value decomposition-based synthesis, demonstrating a sustained commitment to deepening the theoretical foundations of tendon-driven robotics across more than two decades. His research portfolio later expanded to encompass parallel manipulators with Schoenflies motion, contributing to workspace and singularity analysis. More recently, he has explored data-driven robot grasping in complex environments. With a body of work accumulating nearly 300 citations, Lee has made enduring contributions that continue to inform the design of lightweight, dexterous robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Kinematic Analysis of Tendon-Driven Robotic Mechanisms Using Graph Theory48 citations · 1989
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- 4Tendon-Driven Manipulators: Analysis, Synthesis, and Control30 citations · 1991
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- 7Dynamic Analysis of Tendon Driven Robotic Mechanisms19 citations · 2003
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- 9On the kinematics of a new parallel mechanism with Schoenflies motion12 citations · 2015
- 10Robot grasping in dense clutter via view-based experience transfer4 citations · 2021