Papers
6
Total Citations
150
H-Index
5
About
Liangliang Zhu is a pioneering researcher in soft robotics, with a primary focus on bioinspired locomotion and energy efficiency. His work explores how limbless creatures—such as snakes, worms, and amoebae—can inspire more efficient, adaptable robots. Zhu’s major contributions include developing a general framework for evaluating the energy efficiency of mobile soft robots (2017, 55 citations), which established a more intrinsic performance metric beyond simple velocity. He also introduced a novel slithering locomotion mechanism for snake-like soft robots (2016, 37 citations) and demonstrated how simple mechanical principles can enable diverse soft robotic locomotion architectures (2017, 32 citations). His research on elementary slender soft robots, inspired by the skeleton joint system of animals (2019, 18 citations), highlights scalability and excellent locomotion performance. More recently, Zhu has explored snake-like lateral undulatory locomotion across terrestrial, aquatic, and sandy environments (2021, 6 citations), as well as acoustic actuators for soft robot actuation (2018, 2 citations). With over 150 total citations, Zhu’s work is foundational for students and researchers aiming to design energy-efficient, bioinspired soft robots that move effectively in complex environments.
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Top Papers
- 1Energy efficiency of mobile soft robots55 citations · 2017
- 2A novel slithering locomotion mechanism for a snake-like soft robot37 citations · 2016
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- 4Elementary Slender Soft Robots Inspired by Skeleton Joint System of Animals18 citations · 2019
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