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Variable damping of pneumatic soft robots with shape memory alloys.

Lee, K., AfshariNejad, P., Liu, T., Realmuto, J., & Sheng, J.

Variable damping of pneumatic soft robots with shape memory alloys.

Smart Materials and Structures (2025).

DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/adf7ec.

Design and characterization of soft fabric omnidirectional bending actuators.

 Lee, K., Bayarsaikhan, K., Aguilar, G., Realmuto, J., & Sheng, J.
Design and characterization of soft fabric omnidirectional bending actuators.
Actuators. (2024).

DOI: 10.3390/act13030112.

Mechanical design and data-enabled predictive control of a planar soft robot.

Wang, H., Zhang, K., Lee, K., Mei, Y., Zhu, K., Srivastava, V., Sheng, J.,

& Li, Z.
Mechanical design and data-enabled predictive control of a planar soft robot.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (2024).

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3434929.

Soft bidirectional shape memory alloy actuators for robotic catheters.

Manian, V., Oda, K., AfshariNejad, P., Lee, K., Akbari, A., & Sheng, J.
Soft bidirectional shape memory alloy actuators for robotic catheters.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (2025).

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3598662.

Soft robotic catheters enabled by miniaturized bending and torsional hydraulic soft actuators.

AfshariNejad, P., Lee, K., Vu, S., Penchala, A., Sevic, S., Manian, V.,

& Sheng, J. 
Soft robotic catheters enabled by miniaturized bending and torsional hydraulic soft actuators.
2026 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (In press).

Velocity-form data-enabled predictive control of soft robots under unknown external payloads.

Wang, H., Zhang, K., Lee, K., Mei, Y., Srivastava, V., Sheng, J., & Li, Z.
Velocity-form data-enabled predictive control of soft robots under unknown external payloads.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Under Review).

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