Papers
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Total Citations
175
H-Index
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About
Chun Zhao is a leading researcher in soft robotics and intelligent actuation systems, whose work bridges bio-inspired design, pneumatic control, and multi-responsive materials. His major contributions include the development of the “Blue Hand,” a novel soft anthropomorphic hand based on a pneumatic series-parallel mechanism (15 citations), and an inflatable particle-jammed robotic gripper that integrates positive pressure with partial filling for adaptive grasping (39 citations). Zhao has also pioneered moisture-driven actuators using Nafion/polyimide composites (27 citations) and high-performance multi-responsive ionic polymer-graphene Janus films for multimodal soft robots (17 citations). His research extends to rehabilitation robotics, where he has designed pneumatic-muscle-driven robots with single neuron tuned PID controllers (13 citations), and bio-inspired artificial receptors capable of tactile sensing and pain warning (7 citations). With over 160 total citations across his top ten papers, Zhao’s work is highly influential in advancing soft grippers, crawling robots with snake-scale-inspired locomotion (11 citations), and FPGA-accelerated sim2real kinematics for industrial robots (14 citations). His achievements demonstrate a remarkable ability to integrate material science, control theory, and biomimicry, making him a key figure in the next generation of compliant, adaptive robotic systems.
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- 5Sim2real kinematics modeling of industrial robots based on FPGA-acceleration14 citations · 2022
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- 7AN REHABILITATION ROBOT DRIVEN BY PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES13 citations · 2020
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