Patents and Competitions

Research Interest Groups

  • Autonomous soft robots (continuum & concentric tube robots) [4]
    • ​Dai Dong​ Nguyen, Yuan-Dean Liou (​廖元鼎), and Jyong-Ci Huang (黃炯齊), and En-Yi Chang (​張恩禕)
  • Bipedal humanoid robots and robotic dogs [7]
    • Ming-Yang Chuang (莊明洋​), Tzu-Chia Cheng (鄭子嘉), Hao-Yu Liu (劉皓宇), and Yi-Hung Chen (陳易宏) 
    • Ming-Yan Liu (劉明諺), Cheng-Hsun Tai (戴橙勛), Yi-Hsuan Cheng (程奕璇)
  • Machine learning, image processing, autonomous mobile robots, aerial vehicles & robotic manipulators [4]
    • Thien Phuc Nguyen, Zi-Yuan You (游子瑗​), Yan-Ching Chen (陳彥璟) and Wei-Hao Huang (黃韋豪)
Recent Works
Self-balancing e-bike prototype test at NTU Campus, November 2023
Laboratory-made drone UAV indoor flying against disturbances, January 2024
Drone flying with following a mobile robot (take-off and landing), January 2024
A mechanically compliant cable-driven five-fingered robotic hand with grasping objects with arbitrary shapes, June 2023
A pneumatic-driven five-fingered robotic hand (grasping balloon task with different grasping force levels), June 2023
A 6-DOF concentric tube robot performing: (1) arbitrary poses; (2) image- guided autonomous grasping tasks, June 2023
Flapping-wing robot (ornithopter) with flying pose control (via remote controller), June 2023
Autonomous Navigation of a Forklift Robot
Two and three drones formation with circle and lemniscate paths, January 2024
Three drones formation with co-hooking an object uisng a knotted nylon netting, January 2024
​Humanoid robot fall detection and recovery (self-protection with disconnecting power and restoration), November 2023
A five-fingered robotic hand deploying liquid metal injected tactile sensor arrays, June 2023
A PLA printed autonomous robotic dog (SLAM, path planning, obstacle avoidance and video surveillance), June, 2023
Stir-frying robot for cooking pasta noodles and image processing
Autonomous 3D object grasping with stereoscopic vision and machine learning, July 2022
Continuum manipulator Initial Trials on October 2020​
​Ornithopter Initial Trials on October 2020​
Six-legged Robot Prototype Initial Trials on October 2020​