Yanling Tian
Papers
9
Total Citations
159
H-Index
4
About
Yanling Tian is a robotics and automation researcher whose work spans soft robotics, surgical robotics, industrial robot calibration, and flexible sensing technologies. Perhaps most recognized for developing innovative soft-robotic gripper systems, Tian's 2020 paper on a two-finger soft-robotic gripper featuring dual enveloping and pinching grasping modes has garnered over 100 citations, establishing it as a significant contribution to adaptive robotic manipulation. This work, built around dual-module pneumatic actuators with variable chamber height, demonstrated practical solutions for versatile, compliant grasping — a persistent challenge in industrial and service robotics. Tian's earlier contributions to contact state analysis for cylindrical pair adjustment (2010, 31 citations) reflect a longstanding interest in precision robotic assembly, a theme revisited in later kinematic calibration research targeting local assembly spaces for six-axis industrial robots. More recently, Tian has expanded into surgical robotics, designing a novel retinal surgery robot incorporating spatial variable remote center-of-motion mechanisms — a technically demanding area with high clinical significance. Additional work in flexible strain sensors capable of performance across wide temperature ranges and underwater environments underscores the breadth of Tian's research vision, bridging fundamental mechanism design with emerging intelligent sensing applications.
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Top Papers
- 1A Two-Finger Soft-Robotic Gripper with Enveloping and Pinching Grasping Modes103 citations · 2020
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- 4A Novel Soft-Robotic Gripper with Vertically Plane Contact of the Object6 citations · 2019
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