Publication
Index: 19
Authors: Xinliang Wang, Weida Kang, Xudong Liang, Kiwon Ban, Jun Liu, and Jiachen Zhang
Title: A Magnetic Catheter With Force Sensing Capability Toward Interventional Surgery
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Date: 27 September 2024 link
Index: 18
Authors: Yuxuan Xiang, Ruomao Liu, Zihan Wei, Xinliang Wang, Weida Kang, Min Wang, Jun Liu, Xudong Liang, and Jiachen Zhang
Title: MINRob: A Large Force-Outputting Miniature Robot Based on a Triple-Magnet System
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Date: 05 June 2024 link, author’s version.
The locomotions of internal magnets (upper) and the entire robot (lower) are visualized in the videos.
Index: 17
Authors: Zihan Wei, Zongze Li, Yuxuan Xiang, Jun Liu, and Jiachen Zhang
Title: Magnetic repulsion-based robot with diverse locomotion capabilities
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Date: 20 November 2023 link
Index: 16
Authors: Ruomao Liu, Yuxuan Xiang, Zihan Wei, and Jiachen Zhang
Title: A computer-aided teleoperation system for intuitively controlling the behavior of a magnetic millirobot within a stomach phantom
Journal: Advanced Intelligent Systems
Date: 05 November 2023 link
Index: 15
Authors: Yuxuan Xiang and Jiachen Zhang
Title: A theoretical investigation of the ability of magnetic miniature robots to exert forces and torques for biomedical functionalities
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Date: 03 Feb 2023 link, author’s version, SI
Index: 14
Authors: Jiachen Zhang, Ren Hao Soon, Zihan Wei, Wenqi Hu, and Metin Sitti
Title: Liquid metal-elastomer composites with dual-energy transmission mode for multifunctional miniature untethered magnetic robots
Journal: Advanced Science
Date: 05 September 2022 link (open access)
Index: 13
Authors: Yue Dong, Lu Wang, Neng Xia, Zhengxin Yang, Chong Zhang, Chengfeng Pan, Dongdong Jin, Jiachen Zhang, Carmel Majidi, Li Zhang
Title: Untethered small-scale magnetic soft robot with programmable magnetization and integrated multifunctional modules
Journal: Science Advances
Date: 22 June 2022 link (open access)
Index: 12
Authors: Yubing Guo*, Jiachen Zhang*, Wenqi Hu*, Muhammad Turab Ali Khan, and Metin Sitti (*equally contributing authors)
Title: Shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer structures with arbitrary 3D director fields and geometries
Journal: Nature Communications
Date: early view, 2021 link (open access)
Index: 11
Authors: Jiachen Zhang*, Yubing Guo*, Wenqi Hu*, and Metin Sitti (*equally contributing authors)
Title: Wirelessly actuated thermo- and magneto-responsive soft bimorph materials with programmable shape-morphing
Journal: Advanced Materials
Date: early view, 2021 link (open access)
Index: 10
Authors: Jiachen Zhang*, Ziyu Ren*, Wenqi Hu*, Ren Hao Soon, Immihan Ceren Yasa, and Metin Sitti (*equally contributing authors)
Title: Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly
Journal: Science Robotics
Date: vol. 6 issue 53, 2021 official link, full text
Motivation: To create functional and complex miniature robots in a similar manner with the nature using cells and ECM to create tissues and organs.
Index: 9
Authors: Jiachen Zhang*, Yubing Guo*, Wenqi Hu*, Ren Hao Soon, Zoey Davidson, and Metin Sitti (*equally contributing authors)
Title: Liquid crystal elastomer-based magnetic composite films for reconfigurable shape-morphing soft miniature machines
Journal: Advanced Materials
Date: vol. 33 issue 8, 2021 link (open access), cover article
Index: 8
Authors: Tianqi Xu, Jiachen Zhang, Mohammad Salehizadeh, Onaizah Onaizah, and Eric Diller
Title: Millimeter-Scale Flexible Robots with Programmable Three-Dimensional Magnetization and Motions
Journal: Science Robotics
Date: vol. 4, eaav4494 , 2019 official link, post-print pdf
Index: 7
Authors: Jiachen Zhang and Eric Diller
Title: Untethered miniature soft robots: Modeling and design of a millimeter-scale swimming magnetic sheet
Journal: Soft Robotics
Date: vol. 5, no. 6, 2018 link post-print
A picture of the setup to test the motility of underwater swimmers.
Index: 5
Authors: Jiachen Zhang, Onaizah Onaizah, Kevin Middleton, Lidan You, and Eric Diller
Title: Reliable grasping of three-dimensional untethered mobile magnetic microgripper for autonomous pick-and-place
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Conference: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
3. J. Zhang and E. Diller, “Tetherless mobile micrograsping using a magnetic elastic composite material,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 25, no. 11, 11LT03 2016. Link pre-print
2. J. Zhang, P. Jain, and E. Diller, “Independent Control of Two Millimeter-Scale Soft-Bodied Magnetic Robotic Swimmers,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2016. Link pre-print
An experimental video of the swimmer’s deformation in response to a rotating uniform magnetic field.