Dr Ketao Zhang
BSc, PhD, FHEA
Research Group Members
PhD Students
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Mr Navin Patel |
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Mr Zhujin Jiang |
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Mr Chen Liu Soft Robotics, Actuation and Sensing, Electroactive Technologies |
Mr Yan Wang |
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Assistive robotics, Rehabilitation robotics
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Alumni
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Visiting researchers
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Dr Wei Ye |
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MSc and UG
Research Assistants
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Current PhD Projects
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Cooperative multi-agent robotic systems |
Development of exoskeletons for elderly and stroke patient with motor tremor problem |
Development of Parallel Mechanisms Based Wearable Exoskeleton System for Lower Limb |
Inflatable legs for walking robots |
Novel multirotor UAVs with reconfigurable/deployable structure |
Reconfigurable legged mobile robots |
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 |
Past PhD Projects
Thesis Title | Year |
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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 |