About Me
I am Linan Deng, currently working as a postdoc in Prof. Fumin Zhang’s group in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I received B.E. in Marine Engineering in July 2018 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in July 2025 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Han Ding and Prof. Ye Yuan. My research interests include tactile sensing, robotic grasping in unstructured environment, flexible sensor design, bio-inspired robotics, wearable robotics. I have published some papers at the robotic journals and conferences. Please refer to google scholar 
🔥 News
- 2025.08. Working as a postdoc in Prof. Fumin Zhang’s group in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology!
- 2025.01. 🎉🎉 Welcome to my personal website!
📝 Publications
ICIRA 2025
Linan Deng, Xing Liu, Yunlong Dong, Guijun Ma, Feng Hua, Cheng Cheng, and Zuogong Yue*
Project
- Proposed a visual-tactile fusion-driven diffusion policy for excavating semi-buried objects in granular media.
TMech 2025
A Robotic Tactile Excavation System for Excavating Objects Buried in Granular Materials
Linan Deng, Yasen Wang, Zuogong Yue, and Zhi Li*
Project
- Developed a robotic tactile excavation system for excavating fully-buried objects via only multi-modal tactile sensing.
TIM 2024
Linan Deng, Jinghao Zhang, Zuogong Yue, Zhi Li, Ye Yuan*, and Han Ding
Project
- Proposed an active learning-aided design framework to explore the optimum sensitiviy of the tactile sensor array.
ICRA 2022
Sen-Glove: A Lightweight Wearable Glove for Hand Assistance with Soft Joint Sensing
Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Yang Hong, Yunlong Dong, Xin He*, Ye Yuan, Zhi Li, and Han Ding
Project
- Designed a lightweight wearable glove for hand assistance with 14 soft joint sensors.
Journal Papers
- 2025. Linan Deng, Xing Liu, Yunlong Dong, Guijun Ma, Zuogong Yue, and et al. DPRE: Diffusion Policy-based Robotic Excavation with Visual and Tactile Feedback. (In submitting)
- 2025. Linan Deng, Yasen Wang, Zuogong Yue, and Zhi Li*. A Robotic Tactile Excavation System for Excavating Objects Buried in Granular Materials. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
- 2024. Linan Deng, Jinghao Zhang, Zuogong Yue, Zhi Li, Ye Yuan*, and Han Ding. Active Learning-Aided Design of a Flexible Tactile Sensor Array for Recognizing Properties of Deformable Objects. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- 2023. Yi Shen, Ruochen Tai, Jinghao Zhang, Linan Deng, Ye Yuan*, Rong Su, Fumin Zhang, and Han Ding. Planning and Motion Control for Underwater Bimanual Soft Manipulator in Underwater Grasping Task. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 29(4), 2487-2498.
- 2022. Yi Shen, Linan Deng, Ye Yuan*, Fumin Zhang, and Han Ding. Kinematic Control for Crossed-Fiber-Reinforced Soft Manipulator Using Sparse Bayesian Learning. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(2), 611-622.
- 2022. Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Genglin Fan, Xin He, Zhi Li*, and Ye Yuan. Design of a Soft Gripper with Improved Microfluidic Tactile Sensors for Classification of Deformable Objects. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 5607-5614.
Conference Papers
- 2025. Linan Deng, Xing Liu, Yunlong Dong, Guijun Ma, Feng Hua, Cheng Cheng, and Zuogong Yue*. Visual-Tactile Fusion-Driven Diffusion Policy for Robotic Excavation of Semi-Buried Object in Granular Media. In 2025 18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA) (pp. 447–459) (Okayama, Japan, August 6–9, 2025).
- 2023. Jingyu Yang*, Yi Shen, and Linan Deng. Continual Contrastive Anomaly Detection under Natural Data Distribution Shifts. In 2023 8th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE) (pp. 144-149) (Guangzhou, China, July 13-15, 2023).
- 2022. Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Yang Hong, Yunlong Dong, Xin He*, Ye Yuan, Zhi Li, and Han Ding. Sen-Glove: A Lightweight Wearable Glove for Hand Assistance with Soft Joint Sensing. In 2022 39th International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 5170-5175) (Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 23-27, 2022).
- 2022. Ming Liu, Yang Hong, and Linan Deng*. Research on Data Construction and Classification of Deformable Objects Grasped by Soft Hand with Multi-source Information Fusion. In 2022 34th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) (pp. 6272-6276) (Hefei, China, May 21-23, 2022).
- 2021. Genglin Fan, Xiuchuan Tang*, Yi Shen, and Linan Deng. Model Predictive Control Method for Multi-motor System with Dead Zone. In 2021 6th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE) (pp.333-337) (Dalian, China, July 15-17, 2021).
National Invention Patents
- CN112880547B. Ye Yuan, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Genglin Fan, and Yang Hong. 一种基于液态金属的触觉传感器、阵列及其制备方法
- CN113576832B. Ye Yuan, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Genglin Fan, and Ming Liu. 一种线驱模块化软体康复手套
- CN110400306B. Zelin Deng, Yunlong Dong, Linan Deng, Xiuchuan Tang, Lianhua Deng, and Renguang Cao. 基于形态学滤波和卷积神经网络的无纺布疵点检测方法
- CN112229553B. Ye Yuan, Genglin Fan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Xiuchuan Tang. 一种基于光衰减的柔性触觉传感器、阵列及其制备方法
- CN120516695A. Ye Yuan, Xin Sun, Han Ding, Cheng Cheng, Linan Deng, Zuogong Yue, Feng Hua, Zeyuan Yang, Xing Liu, Shichuang Wang, and Guijun Ma. 基于强化学习与模仿学习的灵巧手航空部件重定向方法
- CN118330773A. Ye Yuan, Zelin Deng, Xin Sun, and Linan Deng. 一种水下物体探测方法及系统
- CN112454421A. Ye Yuan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, Yunlong Dong, and Xiuchuan Tang. 一种气动仿蠕虫软体操纵臂及其制备方法
- CN114274162A. Ye Yuan, Jinghao Zhang, Yi Shen, and Linan Deng. 一种介电弹性体驱动器、柔性足和仿海星软体机器人
National Utility Model Patents
- CN213859341U. Ye Yuan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, Yunlong Dong, and Xiuchuan Tang. 一种气动仿蠕虫软体操纵臂
- CN217778958U. Ye Yuan, Yuzhe Li, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, and Jinghao Zhang. 一种基于介电弹性体驱动器的蝴蝶仿生飞行机器人
- CN213422490U. Ye Yuan, Genglin Fan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Xiuchuan Tang. 一种基于光衰减的柔性触觉传感器及阵列
- CN216185962U. Ye Yuan, Yilin Han, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Genglin Fan. 一种基于介电弹性体伸缩驱动器的鱼仿生游泳机器人
- CN216185961U. Ye Yuan, Liwen Xiao, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Genglin Fan. 一种基于介电弹性体伸缩驱动器的青蛙仿生游泳机器人
🎖 Honors and Awards
Competition
- 2023.09. China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation Entrepreneurship Competition (Bronze Prize in HUST)
- 2022.08. Artificial Intelligence Conference and Entrepreneurs Summit Forum of China’s Optics Valley (Best Student Poster Award)
- 2022.08. China Postgraduate Robot Innovation and Design Competition (National Third Prize)
- 2015.11. Chinese Mathematics Competitions (National Second Prize)
Others
- 2023.12. Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, HUST
- 2022.12. Third Prize of Zhixing Scholarship, HUST
- 2021.11. Excellent Postgraduate Cadre, HUST
- 2018.06. Outstanding Graduate, HUST
📖 Educations
- 2019.09 - 2025.07. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Supervisors: Prof. Han Ding, Prof. Ye Yuan - 2018.09 - 2019.07. China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
- 2014.09 - 2018.07. B.E. in Marine Engineering. School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
💬 Experiences
Review Activities
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM) (2025)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2021)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2021, 2022, 2026)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2021)
- Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) (2022)