About Me
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
- 2025.01. 🎉🎉 Welcome to my personal website!
📝 Publications
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 objects using 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
- 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). IEEE.
- 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 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 5170-5175). IEEE.
- 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). IEEE.
- 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). IEEE.
National Invention Patents
- CN112880547B. Ye Yuan, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Genglin Fan, and Yang Hong.
- CN113576832B. Ye Yuan, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, Genglin Fan, and Ming Liu.
- CN110400306B. Zelin Deng, Yunlong Dong, Linan Deng, Xiuchuan Tang, Lianhua Deng, and Renguang Cao.
- CN112229553B. Ye Yuan, Genglin Fan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Xiuchuan Tang.
- CN112454421A. Ye Yuan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, Yunlong Dong, and Xiuchuan Tang.
- CN114274162A. Ye Yuan, Jinghao Zhang, Yi Shen, and Linan Deng
National Utility Model Patents
- CN213859341U. Ye Yuan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, Yunlong Dong, and Xiuchuan Tang.
- CN217778958U. Ye Yuan, Yuzhe Li, Linan Deng, Yi Shen, and Jinghao Zhang.
- CN213422490U. Ye Yuan, Genglin Fan, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Xiuchuan Tang.
- CN216185962U. Ye Yuan, Yilin Han, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Genglin Fan.
- CN216185961U. Ye Yuan, Liwen Xiao, Yi Shen, Linan Deng, and Genglin Fan.
🎖 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 - 2025.01 (now). School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Supervisors: Prof. Han Ding, Prof. Ye Yuan - 2018.09 - 2019.06. China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
- 2014.09 - 2018.06. 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)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2021)
- Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) (2022)