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Motion Control of Soft Robots
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
- Authors: Wenyu Liang, Jiawei Cao, Qinyuan Ren
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 1 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 1 9 - 8
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- Gives an overview of soft robotics, the modelling approaches for soft robots, as well as the motion control techniques for soft robots that include model-based control, model-free control, and bioinspired control
- Investigates recent novel ideas and methods for the design and implantation of motion control for soft actuators/robots
- Presents several soft robot designs and uses them as examples to illustrate the controller design for soft robots, where detailed simulation or/and experimental results are given
Researchers and robotics engineers in Biomedical Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics and Automation, Soft Robots, and Motion Control, also postgraduate students studying Robotics and Mechatronics
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443140181
- eBook ISBN: 9780443140198
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Wenyu Liang
Wenyu Liang is a scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has authored or co-authored over 90 publications, including one book, two book chapters and more than 40 published journal papers. He has also received several awards related to innovation such as Merit Award, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2016: Open Section, etc. His research interests mainly include robotics, precision motion control, and force/tactile control with applications in industrial, medical, and agricultural technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Fusionopolis Way, Connexis North Tower, Singapore.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Engineering Drive, Singapore.JC
Jiawei Cao
Jiawei Cao is a research scientist at Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 publications on robotics, including highly ranked journal papers and top conference papers. He also serves as reviewers for several international journals and top conferences. His research interests include soft robotics, bioinspired motion control, multi-robot systems, multi-agent reinforcement learning and autonomous navigation.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.QR
Qinyuan Ren
Qinyuan Ren is a robotics scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, in Singapore, and professor at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, in China. He is a principal investigator (PI) of several national Mega-fund projects and serves as the editorial member for two international journals. He is a Senior IEEE Member now and his research interests include nonlinear systems, bioinspired and biomimetic robotics, motion control and artificial nervous system.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Fusionopolis Way, Connexis North Tower, Singapore.
Professor, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University (Yuquan Campus), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China.