Soft Robotics and Biodesign Lab

Conference Publications

* indicates the corresponding author.

[32]. Jieji Ren, Jiang Zou, Guoying Gu*, "MC-Tac: Modular Camera-Based Tactile Sensor for Robot Gripper," International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Hangzhou, China, July 5–7, 2023.

[31]. Peinan Yan, Guoying Gu, Jiang Zou*, "Design, Modeling and Control of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Micro-positioning Stage," International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Hangzhou, China, July 5–7, 2023.

[30]. Yang Zheng, Ziqing Li, Jiangqin Deng, Jiang Zou, Guoying Gu*, Xiangyang Zhu, "Improving the Motion Precision of a 24-DoF Hyper-Redundant Robot through Kinematic Calibration," 2022 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), Guilin, China, July 9-11, 2022.

[29]. Rong Bian, Ningbin Zhang, Xinyu Yang, Zijian Qin, Guoying Gu*, "A Variable Stiffness Soft Actuator with a Center Skeleton and Pin-Socket Jamming Layers" International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Harbin, China, August 1–3, 2022.

[28]. Ningbin Zhang, Guoying Gu*, Xiangyang Zhu*, "Hardware programming of a single-input pneumatic mechanism to control multiple elastic inflatable actuators," 27th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), Shanghai, China, November 26-27, 2021.(Best Student Paper Award Finalist)

[27]. Hanghang Wei, Yang Zheng, Guoying Gu*, “RRT-Based Path Planning for Follow-the-Leader Motion of Hyper-Redundant Manipulators,” Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

[26]. Jiang Zou, Peinan Yan, Ningyuan Ding, Guoying Gu*, “Feedback-cascaded inverse feedforward for viscoelastic creep, hysteresis and cross-coupling compensation in dielectric-elastomer actuated XY stages,” Proceedings of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2020), Boston, USA, July 6-10, 2020..

[25]. Qiwen Shao, Ningbin Zhang, Zequn Shen, Guoying Gu*, “A pneumatic soft gripper with configurable workspace and self-sensing,” 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2020), Kyoto, Japan, June 22-26, 2020.

[24]. Ningyuan Ding, Jiang Zou and Guoying Gu*, “Design of dielectric-elastomer actuated XY stages with millimeter range and submicrometer resolution,” Proceedings of International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS2020), Toronto, Canada, 2020.

[23]. Yifan Zhang, Lisen Ge, Jiang Zou, Haipeng Xu, and Guoying Gu*, “A multimodal soft crawling-climbing robot with the controllable horizontal plane to slope transition,” Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, November 4-8, 2019.

[22]. Jiang Zou and Guoying Gu*, “Feedforward control of the rate-dependent viscoelastic hysteresis nonlinearity in dielectric elastomer actuators,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019.

[21]. Xiangyu Peng, Ningbin Zhang, Lisen Ge, Guoying Gu*, “Dimension optimization of pneumatically actuated soft continuum manipulators,” The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Seoul, Korea, April 14-18, 2019.

[20]. Lei Tang, Limin Zhu, Xiangyang Zhu and Guoying Gu*, “A serpentine curve based motion planning method for cable driven snake robots,” Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), Stuttgart, Germany, November 20 to 22, 2018.

[19]. Linlin Li, Guoying Gu* and Limin Zhu, “Motion control of the piezoelectric tube scanner for Lissajous trajectories with modified repetitive control,” Proceedings of the International Conference on    Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), Nagoya, Japan, July 4 to 8, 2018.

[18]. Ling Li, Yidan Tao, Shuo Jiang, Peter B. Shull, and Guoying Gu*, Fabrication and Testing of a Filmy feelingless Stretchable Strain Sensor, Proceedings of IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Taiwan, December 11-14, 2017.

[17]. Linlin Li, Guoying Gu* and Limin Zhu, “Improving the tracking performance of atomic force microscope scanner with the modified rate-dependent Prandtl-Ishlinskii model,” 2017 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), pp. 456-461, Xiamen, China, December 6-9, 2017.

[16]. Liang Xu and Guoying Gu*, “Bioinspired Venus flytrap: A dielectric elastomer actuated soft gripper, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), New-Zealand, 2017.

[15]. Yidan Tao and Guoying Gu*, “Design of a soft pneumatic actuator finger with self-strain sensing,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 140–150, Wuhan, China, August 15 to 18, 2017.

[14]. Chunxia Li, Linlin Li, Guoying Gu* and Limin Zhu, “Modeling of rate-dependent hysteresis in piezoelectric actuators using a Hammerstein-like structure with a modified Bouc-Wen model,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 672–684, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, on Aug 22-24, 2016. (Best Paper Award)

[13]. Linlin Li, Guoying Gu* and Limin Zhu, “A fractional-order active damping control approach for piezo-actuated nanopositioning stages,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), pp. 1-6, Paris, France, July 18 to 22, 2016.

[12]. Wei Dong, Guoying Gu*, Xiangyang Zhu and Han Ding, “Ball juggling with an under-actuated flying robot,” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 68-73, Hamburg, Germany, September 28-October 02, 2015.

[11]. Chunxia Li, Meiju Yang, Guoying Gu and Limin Zhu, “Positive position feedback based high-speed tracking control of piezo-actuated nanopositioning stages,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 689-700, Portsmouth, UK, on Aug 24-27, 2015.

[10]. Meiju Yang, Chunxia Li#, Guoying Gu and Limin Zhu, “Improving scanning speed of the AFMs with inversion-based feedforward control,” The 4th International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement, pp. 1-6, Taipei, Taiwan, October 27-31, 2014.

[9]. Guoying Gu*, Chunxia Li, Limin Zhu and Sergej Fatikow, “Robust tracking of nanopositioning stages using sliding mode control with a PID sliding surface,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 973-977, Besancon, France, July 8-11, 2014.

[8]. Guoying Gu*, Chunxia Li, Leijie Lai and Limin Zhu, “Improving tracking precision of piezoceramic actuators using feedforward-feedback control,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 644-655, Busan, Korea, September 25-28, 2013.

[7]. Chunxia Li, Guoying Gu, Meiju Yang and Limin Zhu, “Development of a parallel-kinematic high-speed XY nanopositioning stage,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 678-689, Busan, Korea, September 25-28, 2013.

[6]. Wei Dong, Guoying Gu*, Xiangyang Zhu and Han Ding, “Modeling and control of a quadrotor UAV with aerodynamic concepts,” International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, pp. 437-442, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 8-9, 2013.

[5]. Meiju Yang, Guoying Gu, and Limin Zhu, “Identification of Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis models using modified particle swarm optimization,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 291–300, Montreal, Canada, October 3-5, 2012.

[4]. Guoying Gu and Limin Zhu, “Development of a smart motion control card with an IEEE-1394 interface,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp. 263-274, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011.

[3]. Guoying Gu, Limin Zhu, Ying Feng and Chun-Yi Su, “Robust adaptive control of a class of nonlinear systems with inverse compensation of unknown asymmetrical backlash nonlinearity,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, pp. 1-6, Qingdao, China, September 17-19, 2011.

[2]. Guoying Gu, Limin Zhu and Chun-Yi Su, “Robust adaptive control of piezo-actuated positioning stages with an ellipse-based hysteresis model,” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, pp. 123-128, Shenzhen, China, June 6-8, 2011. (Best Paper Award)

[1]. Guoying Gu and Limin Zhu, “Modeling piezoelectric actuator hysteresis with a family of ellipses,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 878-883, Montreal, Canada, July 6-9, 2010. (EI)