Wenlong Zhang

Associate Professor of robotics at Arizona State University. We study how robots work with one another, humans, and complex environments.

[IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) @IeeeTro]

Researchers from @ASUEngineering develop a new algorithm for human robot interaction that relies upon efficiently solving complex partial differential equations using a novel hybrid learning approach.
https://t.co/ybRgFzROrT
#NeuralNetworks #HumanRobotInteraction #robots

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Check out this exciting work on learning safety constraints from human feedback, led by my colleague @jinwanxin @ASUEngineering !!

[Wan𝕏in Jin @jinwanxin]

Robots can infer rewards from human feedback, but what about safety boundaries? Our work, Safe MPC Alignment (https://t.co/2QjGHRyYj2), led by @ZhixianXie_ASU, collab’d with @asuriselab, Yi Ren, @zhaoran_wang, and @pappasg69, shows it’s possible and can be human-data efficient!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Our full-day workshop on Bio-inspired Soft Aerial Robotics will start at 8 am tomorrow in Room Encore 2. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://t.co/kJybnZzlLa

[Pakpong Chirarattananon @pakpongc]

🚀 Join us tomorrow (Apr, 14) at RoboSoft in San Diego for the Bio-inspired Soft Aerial workshop! Explore groundbreaking aerial robotics with us. Don't miss out! 🤖✈️ #RoboSoft2024 #Robotics #Workshop

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

@mechberm @ieeeiros @spring_berman Thanks Berm! We will upload it to YouTube and share a link here soon!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

We are at @ieeeiros! My student Weijia Tao will present WHOPPEr Drone, which uses its compliant body to perch and transport objects (TuAT4, 140D). I will present our work with @spring_berman's team on configuration tracking control of soft robotic arm (MoAT6, 140FG)! #IROS2023

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

@Kstewa2 @ieeeiros @spring_berman Thanks Kyle! Hope you are doing well!!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Our work on soft aerial robot made the cover on @SoftRobotics_JN! Please check it out if you have not done so :)

[mechberm @mechberm]

Our fun work on Soft-Bodied Drones for collision resilence and perching was also selected for this issue's cover on @SoftRobotics_JN. Please find the paper here: https://t.co/sSvUPPO8oL

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Excited to announce my student Emiliano Quiñones Yumbla has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on sensing, control, and testing of wearable soft robot! He will join @UPRCA_Informa as a tenure-track faculty member. Congrats and good luck to your new chapter as a professor!

[Soft Robotics @SoftRobotics_JN]

Recent research proposes and develops a lightweight, inflatable, soft-bodied aerial robot that can pneumatically vary its body stiffness to achieve intrinsic collision resilience. #softrobotics
https://t.co/aDzZJb1A1o

[New Scientist @newscientist]

An inflatable drone can perch on a wide variety of objects by colliding with them – taking advantage of its soft-body physics to increase its contact time with the landing zone without bouncing off

Learn more: https://t.co/SlsFgo6BPn

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

@Zhao_Robotics @SoftRobotics_JN Thank you Jianguo!!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Excited to share our new work on SoBAR (Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot)! The robot uses fabric-based inflatable frame with tunable stiffness for collision resilience and perching. This work was published @SoftRobotics_JN.

Paper: https://t.co/69lG8QNkeq
Videos: https://t.co/nRwJKw9osM

[mechberm @mechberm]

SoBAR (Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot) just released on @SoftRobotics_JN! It's soft textile body supports collision resilience & dynamic perching. Onboard fabric bistable grasper used for rapid shape forming grasping. (@patnaiKarishma @asuriselab)
#robotics #softrobot #technology

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

This work was also covered by @TechXplore_com: https://t.co/hwQOkY1Sai

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

This work was covered by @newscientist: https://t.co/4W9AYGVCQH

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Congratulations @patnaiKarishma for delivering a wonderful dissertation talk! Thank you all for joining in person and online. Karishma made excellent contributions to design, control, and planning of morphing and collision-resilient drones. She is #6 PhD graduate from our lab!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

This work is led by my students Mostafa Rezayat and Mason Smith. Special thanks to our collaborator at Barrow Neurological Institute and @NSF for the support!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

Check out our paper “Learning Post-Stroke Gait Training Strategies by Modeling Patient-Therapist Interaction" published in IEEE T-NSRE! We aimed to achieve effective robot-aided gait training by incorporating the expertise of therapists in stroke rehab. https://t.co/3m4uZ1nRA3

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

We custom designed a wearable sensing system to measure lower-limb kinematics of patients and assistive force applied by therapists. This data is used to directly learn a virtual impedance model that captures therapist's assistive strategies and predicts their assistive torque.

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

This work highlights the needs to co-design planner and controller for morphing robots. We validate the proposed algorithms by simulating a foldable quadrotor’s flight through a passageway. Paper: https://t.co/xQVGqG1uqM. We will also present this work @ACC_Control. Check it out!

[Wenlong Zhang @asuriselab]

New paper alert! Led by @patnaiKarishma, our work on adaptive attitude control for foldable quadrotors is published @CSSIEEE L-CSS! We employed switched systems theory to find switching conditions between different configurations and integrate them into a trajectory planner.