Dr Ketao Zhang
BSc, PhD, FHEA
Research Group Members
PhD Students
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Assistive robotics, Rehabilitation robotics
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Mr Shijia Liu
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Mr Rogelio Segura Caballero
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Mr Jianlin Wang
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Research Assistants
 LIU, Shijia |  LIU, Chen |  YU, Leijian |  WANG, Jianlin |
Current PhD Projects
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| Assistive Mobile Manipulator for Healthcare Personnel Assistance |
| Autonomous robots that locomote and manipulate objects could replace humans in challenging/hazardous environments |
| Computational Design and Control of Bio-inspired Legged Systems |
| Development of Parallel Mechanisms Based Wearable Exoskeleton System for Lower Limb |
| Inflatable legs for walking robots |
| Innovative Tactile and Optical Sensing and Actuating Devices |
| Precision Manipulation and Perception System for Horticulture Applications |
| Sensing and navigation for eversion robots operating pipe networks on nuclear sites |
| Soft eversion robotic mechanism for the inspection of inaccessible spaces in the nuclear sector |
| Using control and machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of a soft eversion robots for underwater applications |
Completed PhD Projects
| Thesis Title | Year |
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| Morphing Quadrotor UAVs with Deployable Linkage Frames: Design, Modelling, Control, and Experiments | 2025 |
| From Bees to Robots: A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Modelling Shimmering Dynamics and Control of Swarm Systems | 2024 |
| Pneumatic Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuators and Evolved Legged-Robots: Design, Modelling and Control | 2024 |
| Wearable Orthoses with Semi-Active and Active Absorbers for Hand Tremor Suppression | 2024 |
| Design, fabrication and stiffness control of soft fluidic robots | 2023 |
| Soft Capacitive and Optical Tomography-based Sensor Skins | 2023 |
| Integrated Hydraulic Steering And Signal Transmission Technlologies Applied to Novel MRI-Compatible Intravascular Catheters | 2020 |