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Zhou, Yitong 

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Zhou, Yitong 

  • Positional Title: Associated Professor

  • Email: zhouyitong@scut.edu.cn

  • Working For: Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering

  • Graduated School: The Ohio State University--Columbus

  • Final Degree: Ph.D.

  • Office: D1-a503

  • Zip Code: 510640

  • Telephone: 020-81182129

  • Mentor Type: Ph.D. advisor

Personal profile  

Yitong Zhou received the B.Eng. degree in vehicle engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, OH, USA, in 2016 and 2020, respectively, with a dual Master's degree in applied statistic through the department of statistics.

She specializes in soft robotic systems that find application in wearables, medical, and rehabilitation areas.

Work Experience  

  • 2021.3 - present, Associate Professor, Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

  • 2011.7- 2014.4, Mechanical Engineer, GAC R&D Center, Guangzhou, China.

Education  

  • BE, Tsinghua University, Vehicle Engineering

  • MS, The Ohio State University, Mechanical Engineering

  • MAS, The Ohio State University, Applied Statistics

  • Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest  

  • Soft robotics, soft robotic systems that find application in wearables, medical, and rehabilitation areas, intelligent sensing and control of wearable soft robots.ufacturing, Multi-sensor fusion，Human-robot interaction；Intelligent medical robot

Research projects  

Courses

  • Design and manufacturing II; Data analysis and modeling

Selected Publications  

2022

  • [1]. 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 (2022).

  • [2].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 14.3 (2022).

  • [4].Zhou, Yitong*, and Haonan Li. 'A Scientometric Review of Soft Robotics: Intellectual Structures and Emerging Trends Analysis (2010–2021).' Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9 (2022).

2021

  • [5].Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. 'Hybrid Jamming Variable-Stiffness Link for Safe Co-robots.' 2021 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR). IEEE, 2021.

2020

  • [3].Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. 'Discrete layer jamming for variable stiffness co-robot arms.' Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 12.1 (2020): 015001.

2019

  • [6].Zhou, Yitong, Leon M. Headings, and Marcelo J. Dapino. 'Discrete layer jamming for safe co-robots.' 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2019.

2018

  • [7].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.

Patents    

  • [1] Structure of an integrated automobile outside handle and its related parts (203239056U), Yitong Zhou, Zonghua Zhang

  • [2] Dismountable cylinder cover of an automobile outside handle (203583999U), Yitong Zhou