Research Assistant Professor B.Eng. (WUST, China), M.Sc. (CUHK), Ph.D. (PolyU) |
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Research Interests: Soft robotics, biomedical robotics, mechatronics, robot perception, sensorimotor control, virtual environments and simulations, robot intelligence |
http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/jwlai/
Resume of Career
Jiewen Lai received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2022. Prior to that, he earned a master’s degree in mechanical and automation engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. From April 2022 to June 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CUHK. In August 2023, he joined the electronic engineering department as a Research Assistant Professor under the University Research Committee Research Assistant Professorship Scheme.
He was a recipient of the IdeaBooster Fund Award (2023), Dr. Barbara Kwok Young Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Grants Award (2023), Best Poster Award of IEEE ICRA (2023), and Best Paper Finalist Award of IEEE ROBIO (2019). He has authored/co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed research papers. He also serves as a guest editor for Actuators (2023) and a frequent reviewer for several IEEE transactions, journals, and conference proceedings.
Current Research Interests
Soft robotics, biomedical robotics, mechatronics, robot perception, sensorimotor control, virtual environments and simulations, robot intelligence
Selected Publications in the Past 4 years
- J. Lai, T.-A. Ren, W. Yue, S. Su, J. Y.-K. Chan, and H. Ren, “Sim-to-real transfer of soft robotic navigation strategies that learns from the virtual eye-in-hand vision,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (T-II), 2023
- G. Wang, T.-A. Ren, J. Lai, L. Bai, and H. Ren, “ Domain adaptive sim-to-real segmentation of oropharyngeal organs,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC), 2023
- Y. Yang, J. Lai, C. Xu, Z. He, P. Jiao, and H. Ren, “A lightweight pneumatically elastic backbone structure with modular construction and nonlinear interaction for bending actuators,” Soft Robotics, 2023. (To appear)
- M. S. Xavier, C. D. Tawk, A. Zolfagharian, J. Pinskier, D. Howard, T. Young, J. Lai, S. M. Harrison, Y. K. Yong, M. Bodaghi, and A. J. Fleming, “Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications,” IEEE Access, 2022
- Z. Cui, W. Ma, J. Lai, H. K. Chu, and Y. Guo, “Coupled multiple dynamic movement primitives generalization for deformable object manipulation,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 5381-5388, 2022
- J. Lai, B. Lu, Q. Zhao, and H. K. Chu, “Constrained motion planning of a cable-driven soft robot with compressible curvature modeling,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 4013-4820, 2022
- Q. Zhao, J. Lai, and H. K. Chu, “Reconstructing external force on the circumferential body of continuum robot with embedded proprioceptive sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (T-IE), vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 13111-13120, 2021
- Q. Zhao, J. Lai, K. Huang, X. Hu, and H. K. Chu, “Shape estimation and control of a soft continuum robot under external payloads,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 2511-2522, 2021
- K. Huang, I. A. Ajamieh, Z. Cui, J. Lai, J. K. Mills, and H. K. Chu, “Automated embryo manipulation and rotation via robotic nDEP-tweezers,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (T-BME), vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 2152-2163. 2021 (Feature Article)
- J. Lai, K. Huang, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu, “Verticalized-tip trajectory tracking of a 3d-printable soft continuum robot: Enabling surgical blood suction automation,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 1545-1556, 2021
- J. Lai, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu, “Variable-stiffness control of a dual-segment soft robot using depth vision,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1034-1045, 2021
- J. Lai, K. Huang, B. Lu, and H. K. Chu, “Toward vision-based adaptive configuring of a bidirectional two-segment soft continuum manipulator,” in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pp. 934-939, 2020.
- J. Lai, K. Huang, and H. K. Chu, “A learning-based inverse kinematics solver for a multi-segment continuum robot in robot-independent mapping,” in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 576-582, 2019 (Best Paper Finalist Award)
- B. Lu, X. Yu, J. Lai, K. Huang, K. C. C. Chan, and H. K. Chu, “A learning approach for suture thread detection with feature enhancement and segmentation for 3-D shape reconstruction,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 858-870, 2019