Publications

Journal Papers (Selected in reverse chronological order)

Y. Yang, H. Ren, Z. He, P. Jiao (2024). How Do Combustions Actuate Soft Robots? Soft Robotics, Accepted.

Y. Yang, S. Yuan, H. Ren (2024). Reversible elastomer-fluid transition for metamorphosic robots. Advanced Functional Materials, 2311981. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.20231198. (Editor’s Choice)

Y. Yang, J. Lai, C. Xu, Z. He, P. Jiao, H. Ren (2023). Lightweight Pneumatically Elastic Backbone Structure (PEBS) with Modular Construction and Nonlinear Interaction for Soft Actuators. Soft Robotics, 0179. DOI: 10.1089/soro.2021.0179

Yang, Y., He, Z., Jiao, P., & Ren, H. (2024). Bioinspired soft robotics: How do we learn from creatures?. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 17, 153 – 165. (Annual Cover & Featured Article)

DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2022.3210015

Yang, Y., & Jiao, P. (2023). Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for biomedical soft robots. Materials Today Advances, 17, 100338.

DOI: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100338

P. Jiao, H. Zhang, L. Hong, Y. Yang, W. Li (2023). Piezo-Wormbots for Continous Crawling. Soft Robotics, 0023. (Front cover art)

He, Z., Lin, G., Yang, Y., Jiao, P. (2023). Leaping fishbot by combustion and propulsion hybrid actuation. Journal of Field Robotics.

DOI: 10.1002/rob.22261

Yang, Y., He, Z., Lin, G., Wang, H., & Jiao, P. (2022). Large deformation mechanics of the thrust performances generated by combustion-enabled soft actuators. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 229, 107513.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.107513

He, Z.*, Yang, Y.*, Jiao, P., Wang, H., Lin, G., & Pähtz, T. (2023). Copebot: underwater soft robot with copepod-like locomotion. Soft Robotics, 10(2), 314-325.

DOI: 10.1089/soro.2021.0158

Yang, Y., Hou, B., Chen, J., Wang, H., Jiao, P., & He, Z. (2020). High-speed soft actuators based on combustion-enabled transient driving method (TDM). Extreme Mechanics Letters, 37, 100731.

DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2020.100731

Wang, H., Yang, Y., Ye, X., He, Z. & Jiao, P. (2023) Combustion-enabled underwater vehicles (CUVs) in dynamic fluid environment. Journal of Field Robotics, 40, 1054–1068.

DOI: 10.1002/Rob.22167 (Cover Art)

Lin, G., Yang, Y., He, Z., & Jiao, P. (2022). Hydrodynamic optimization in high-acceleration underwater motions using added-mass coefficient. Ocean Engineering, 263, 112274.

DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112274

Yang, Y., Lou, Y., Lin, G., He, Z., & Jiao, P. (2022). Hydrodynamics of high-speed robots driven by the combustion-enabled transient driving method. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, 23(10), 820-831.

DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A2200331

Patents List

International patents:

[1] A terrain monitoring tire based on triboelectric material

[2] A structural deformation monitoring tape based on friction generation

[3] A vasospasm monitoring device based on triboelectric technology

[4] A worm-like soft robot driven by combustions

[5] A multi-scale flexible photosensitive mechanical pressure sensor

[6] A self-energy thermal response monitoring device

[7] A hairtail-like high-speed soft robot driven by combustions

[8] A wave energy harvester based on magnetic force and triboelectric effect

China invention patents:

[1] An experimental platform for full-soft underwater soft robots driven by combustion.

[2] A type of full-soft underwater soft robot and its experimental platform.

[3] An untethered underwater soft robot driven by combustion.

[4] A fish-inspired underwater soft robot driven by combustion.

[5] A multiscale mechanical pressure sensor based on a flexible photoreceptor.

[6] An underwater flow observation equipment that can automatically adjust its location.

[7] A wireless self-powered structure sensor based on piezoelectric principle.

[8] A self-powered temperature response detecting device.

[9] A nozzle modular for 3D ceramics printer.

[10] Air parking system for communities.

[11] A vasospasm detection device based on friction electricity generation technology.

[12] A structural deformation monitoring tape based on friction and electricity generation.

[13] A terrain monitoring tire of triboelectric material.

[14] A flexible actuator driven by a chemical radiation reaction.

[15] A worm-like crawling software robot driven by chemical radiation reaction.