Tilei Zhang

Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin University of Technology

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Tilei Zhang is a robotics researcher specializing in the design, actuation, and control of untethered micro-scale soft robots, with a particular focus on magnetoelastic composite materials and their applications in constrained environments. Zhang's work has made meaningful contributions to the emerging field of wireless microrobotics, demonstrating how magnetically responsive flexible materials can enable cable-free locomotion through undulatory swimming motion — a capability with transformative implications for biomedical procedures, microfluidics, and micro-assembly tasks. Among Zhang's most influential contributions is a 2021 study on the motion characteristics of magnetoelastic swimmers (15 citations), which advanced understanding of how soft robotic systems can be remotely controlled without physical tethering. Earlier work from 2019 further established foundational insights into tetherless micro-robot design and swimming behavior using magnetic elastic composites, collectively accumulating over 17 additional citations. Zhang has also tackled the challenge of closed-loop control, investigating visual servoing techniques combining mean shift and fast template matching algorithms to improve the precision and repeatability of swimming robot navigation. Across this body of work, Zhang has helped lay important groundwork for the next generation of minimally invasive, wirelessly actuated robotic systems.