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Total Citations
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About
Hongyang Shi is a leading researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, wearable electronics, and intelligent sensing systems. His work centers on developing novel soft sensors and actuators that can perceive and interact with complex environments, with a particular focus on pressure sensing—both positive and negative—and bio-inspired robotic locomotion. Shi’s most impactful contributions include the invention of an inkjet-printed soft resistive pressure sensor patch (137 citations) and a screen-printed capacitive sensor capable of spatially mapping both positive and negative pressures (109 citations), both of which have become foundational references in the field of wearable electronics. He also pioneered a pneumatic soft snake robot that uses traveling-wave locomotion to navigate constrained environments like pipelines (97 citations), demonstrating a novel approach to soft robotic mobility. More recently, Shi has advanced stretchable hybrid response pressure sensors and developed distributed inductive curvature sensors for simultaneous shape reconstruction and force estimation in soft actuators. His work on ferroelectret devices for underwater negative pressure sensing further showcases his ability to push the boundaries of soft sensing. With over 400 total citations, Shi’s research is shaping the future of soft robotics and smart wearables.
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- 4Stretchable hybrid response pressure sensors51 citations · 2024
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- 6Enabling Negative Pressure Sensing Through Ferroelectret Device8 citations · 2022
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- 9Boundary layer turbulence near an actively controlled deformable surface2 citations · 2021