- Selected Publications (Full list available on [Google Scholar])
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Long, Fibrous, and Tailorable Dielectric Elastomer Artificial Muscles via Mask-Free Stamping of Carbon Nanotube Electrodes
Qi Shao, Liang Zhou, Jingyi Zhou, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
Advanced Functional Materials, 2025.
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Untethered Robotic Millipede Driven by Low-Pressure Microfluidic Actuators for Multi-Terrain Exploration
Qi Shao, Xuguang Dong, Zhonghan Lin, Chao Tang, Hao Sun, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 12142–12149, 2022.
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Unearthing the History with A-RHex: Leveraging Articulated Hexapod Robots for Archeological Pre-exploration
Qi Shao, Qixing Xia, Zhonghan Lin, Xuguang Dong, Xin An, Haoqi Zhao, Zhangyi Li, Xin-Jun Liu, Wenqiang Dong*, Huichan Zhao*;
Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 206–218, 2025.
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Portable, High-Frequency, and High-Voltage Control Circuits for Untethered Miniature Robots Driven by Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Qi Shao, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025. (Accepted)
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An Anthropomorphic Musculoskeletal System with Soft Joint and Multifilament Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Zhonghan Lin, Qi Shao, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
Advanced Intelligent Systems, vol. 4, no. 10, p. 2200126, 2022.
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Conformable and Compact Multiaxis Tactile Sensor for Human and Robotic Grasping via Anisotropic Waveguides
Jingyi Zhou, Qi Shao, Chao Tang, Fei Qiao, Tongqing Lu, Xiong Li, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 7, no. 11, p. 2200595, 2022.
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A Pipeline Inspection Robot for Navigating Tubular Environments in the Sub-Centimeter Scale
Chao Tang, Boyuan Du, Songwen Jiang, Qi Shao, Xuguang Dong, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
Science Robotics, vol. 7, no. 66, p. eabm8597, 2022.
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Monolithic Soft Fibrous Valves Capable of Generating Air Pressure Cutoff, Maintaining, and Oscillation for Pneumatic Systems
Zhonghan Lin, Qi Shao, Boyuan Du, Xin-Jun Liu, Huichan Zhao*;
Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 9, no. 8, p. 2301633, 2024.
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Active-Cooling-in-the-Loop Controller Design and Implementation for an SMA-Driven Soft Robotic Tentacle
Xin An, Yafeng Cui, Hao Sun, Qi Shao, Huichan Zhao*;
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 2325-2341, 2023.
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