Baotong Li
Papers
8
Total Citations
264
H-Index
6
About
Baotong Li is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, bio-inspired design, and advanced manufacturing. Their work fundamentally reimagines how robots move, sense, and interact with their environments. Li’s key contributions span three core areas: developing novel soft-rigid hybrid actuators that overcome the limitations of traditional fiber-reinforced designs by enabling noncircular cross-sections; creating self-powered conformal sensors using 3D-printed piezoelectric nanocomposites with tunable interfaces; and applying topology optimization techniques to solve complex robotic challenges, from path planning in dynamic environments to designing flexible grippers. Their most cited work, on 3D-printed BNNTs nanocomposites for sensors (100 citations), demonstrates a remarkable ability to integrate materials science with device engineering. Li has also made significant strides in bio-inspired robotics, using inchworm locomotion as a template for soft robot design and dynamic modeling. With a growing body of work that bridges computational optimization, biomimetics, and smart materials, Li is shaping the future of adaptive, intelligent robotic systems that are both softer and smarter.
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Top Papers
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- 2Geometric Confined Pneumatic Soft–Rigid Hybrid Actuators49 citations · 2020
- 3Topology optimization techniques for mobile robot path planning44 citations · 2019
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- 6A multi-frame graph matching algorithm for low-bandwidth RGB-D SLAM11 citations · 2016
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