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  • 周奕彤 Zhou, Yitong

    • 职称:副教授

    • 邮箱:zhouyitong@scut.edu.cn

    • 工作单位:吴贤铭智能工程学院

    • 邮政编码:510640

    • 毕业院校:俄亥俄州立大学

    • 办公室:D1-a503

    • 最后学位:博士

    • 办公电话:020-81182129

    • 导师类别:博导

个人简介  

周奕彤,博士,华南理工大学吴贤铭智能工程学院副教授,博士生导师。 2011年本科毕业于清华大学车辆工程系,2020年在美国俄亥俄州立大学获得机械工程博士学位和应用统计学硕士学位。现主持国家自然科学基金(青年科学基金)项目、广州市基础与应用基础研究项目、校企合作项目等7项科研项目。曾作为骨干完成美国国家科学基金委、本田北美研发中心资助的多项科研项目。入围2022年机器人与仿生学国际会议(IEEE ROBIO)最佳论文奖(指导老师),2022年机构与机器人期刊(ASME JMR)最佳论文奖。在IEEE TRO/IEEE TIM/IEEE Sensors/ASME JMR/RAL/ICRA/IROS等知名期刊和会议发表24篇研究论文。个人学术主页点这里

招收候选人专业背景:机器人工程、机械工程、力学、控制工程等。对课题组感兴趣的本科生/硕士生/博士生/博士后候选人请发送电子邮件,包括当前简历、成绩单、研究兴趣。


工作经历  

  • 2021年3月-至今,华南理工大学,吴贤铭智能工程学院,副教授。

  • 2011年7月-2014年4月,广汽研究院,机械工程师。

教育经历  

  • 2007-2011 本科, 清华大学,车辆工程系

  • 2014-2016 硕士, 俄亥俄州立大学哥伦布分校,机械工程系

  • 2016-2020 硕士, 俄亥俄州立大学哥伦布分校,应用统计系

  • 2016-2020 博士, 俄亥俄州立大学哥伦布分校,机械工程系

研究领域  

       我们致力于新型柔性、软体机器人的设计方法、前沿理论与实验研究。提出人工肌肉、软体致动器的创新构造方法与制造工艺,实现优异的驱动性能;研究致动器的多物理场的机理模型,基于物理信息结合人工智能的建模与控制方法;研发新型柔性服务机器人和可穿戴机器人,努力推动柔性机器人在实际应用场景的落地。


科研项目

  • 人工肌肉

通过高分子材料制备新型电动人工肌肉,提出人工肌肉的构造方法与制造工艺;揭示结构、工艺参数对人工肌肉负载、行程、能量效率的作用机制;实现优异的力学和电学性能,探究人工肌肉连续制备的普适性方法,实现产业应用。


  • 软体机器人

设计和建立软体执行器的设计理论;揭示组成、结构、工艺对软体执行器的能量调控机理;发展基于人工智能的软体机器人的建模和控制方法。


  • 电力服务机器人

面向电力产业中机器替人的迫切需求,开发电力巡检、操作机器人;研发高压电线操作机器人,实现多种附件的带电破拆与更换;研发排管内电缆巡检机器人,实现线上巡检、三维空间重建与狭窄空间操作;研发辅助攀爬外骨骼,提升攀爬安全性。

主讲课程  

  • 设计与制造II、数据分析建模

代表论文  

2024年


  • Dai, Pei, Pengyu Wang, Lu Gan, Yitong Zhou*. Supercoiled Polymer Sensors from Twisting and Coiling Silver-Plated Nylon Threads. IEEE Sensors Journal (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2024.3441630

  • Xu, Zefeng, Jiaqiao Liang, Yitong Zhou*. Manta Ray-Inspired Soft Robotic Swimmer for High-speed and Multi-modal Swimming. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). Accepted.

  • Lou, Gaoming, Chuang Wang, Zefeng Xu, Jiaqiao Liang, and Yitong Zhou*. Controlling Soft Robotic Arms Using Hybrid Modelling and Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2024.3418312

  • Xu, Zefeng, Jiaqiao Liang, and Yitong Zhou*. Soft Pneumatic Helical Actuators With Programmable Variable Curvatures. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2024.3410165

  • Fang, Shengchang, Guisong Chen, Yitong Zhou*, and Xiaojie Wang*. Advancing Legged Wall Climbing Robot Performance Through Dynamic Contact-Integrated Climbing Model. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 16, no. 6 (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064742

  • Xu, Zefeng, Linkai Hu, Longya Xiao, Hongjie Jiang, and Yitong Zhou*. Modular soft robotic crawlers based on fluidic prestressed composite actuators. Journal of Bionic Engineering 21, no. 2 (2024): 694-706. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-024-00487-6

  • Xu, Zefeng, and Yitong Zhou*. Bistable composites with intrinsic pneumatic actuation and non-cylindrical curved shapes. Materials Letters 354 (2024): 135381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2023.135381


2023年


  • Gan, Lu, Jiabao Wang, Longhan Xie, and Yitong Zhou*. A High Precision Triaxial Force Sensor Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings for Catheter Ablation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2023). https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2023.3342245

  • Gan, Lu, Jiabao Wang, and Yitong Zhou*. A sub-millinewton resolution biaxial force sensor with temperature self-compensation for vascular intervention. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 364 (2023): 114833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2023.114833

  • Li, Fengguan, Jiahong Chen, Zhitao Zhou, Jiefeng Xie, Zishu Gao, Yuxiang Xiao, Pei Dai, Chanchan Xu, Xiaojie Wang, and Yitong Zhou*. Lightweight soft robotic glove with whole-hand finger motion tracking for hand rehabilitation in virtual reality. Biomimetics 8, no. 5 (2023): 425.  https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8050425

  • Zhou, Yitong*, and Zefeng Xu. Mechanically prestressed pneumatically driven bistable soft actuators. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 16, no. 5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062949

  • Li, Fengguan, Jiahong Chen, Guanpeng Ye, Siwei Dong, Zishu Gao, and Yitong Zhou*. Soft robotic glove with sensing and force feedback for rehabilitation in virtual reality. Biomimetics 8, no. 1 (2023): 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8010083


2022年

  • Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. Modeling of fluidic prestressed composite actuators with application to soft robotic grippers. IEEE Transactions on Robotics 38, no. 4 (2022): 2166-2178. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2021.3139770 

  • Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. Modeling of soft robotic grippers integrated with fluidic prestressed composite actuators. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 14, no. 3 (2022): 031001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052699

  • Xiao, Longya, Chengjian Ou, Ding Zhang, Yi Ma, Zefeng Xu, Yitong Zhou*, and Hongjie Jiang. Strong Tough Poly Acrylic‐co‐acrylamide Hydrogels via a Synergistic Effect of Fiber and Metal‐Ligand Bonds as Flexible Strain Sensors. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 307, no. 11 (2022): 2200389. https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202200389

  • Xu, Zefeng, Linkai Hu, and Yitong Zhou*. Pneumatic soft robotic crawler integrated with a precurved actuator enables fast locomotion. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 507-512. IEEE, 2022. https://doi.org/ 10.1109/ROBIO55434.2022.10011745

  • Xu, Zefeng, Linkai Hu, and Yitong Zhou*. A soft gripper integrated with mechanically-prestressed soft actuators. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Control (SDPC), pp. 190-194. IEEE, 2022. https://doi.org/ 10.1109/SDPC55702.2022.9915943


2021年及以前

  • Zhou, Yitong*, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. Hybrid jamming variable-stiffness link for safe co-robots. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), pp. 1224-1229. IEEE, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/RCAR52367.2021.9517445 

  • Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. Discrete layer jamming for variable stiffness co-robot arms. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 12, no. 1 (2020): 015001.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044537

  • Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. Discrete layer jamming for safe co-robots. In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 6124-6129. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793908

  • Taghipour, Ehsan, Sai Siddhartha Vemula, Zhengdi Wang, Yitong Zhou, Hossein Qarib, Kushal Gargesh, Leon M. Headings, Marcelo J. Dapino, and Soheil Soghrati. Characterization and computational modeling of electrical wires and wire bundles subject to bending loads. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 140 (2018): 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.03.009

研究专利  

  • 1. 授权专利:一种基于扭弦式致动器的腕关节可穿戴柔性康复设备,2023226757347