3 papers
physics.app-ph2025
Agile manoeuvring of dandelion-inspired micro-flyers with vortex-enabled stability
Jianfeng Yang, Soumarup Bhattacharyya, Aditya Potnis +2
Manoeuvring untethered, centimetre-scale airborne structures has been a long-standing challenge. Active flight systems, relying on high-power-density actuators alongside mechanical…
physics.optics2025
Light communicative materials
Hongshuang Guo, Kai Li, Jianfeng Yang +3
The natural interactive materials under far-from-equilibrium conditions have significantly inspired advances in synthetic biomimetic materials. In artificial systems, gradient diff…
cs.RO2024
Feedback Regulated Opto-Mechanical Soft Robotic Actuators
Jianfeng Yang, Haotian Pi, Zixuan Deng +4
Natural organisms can convert environmental stimuli into sensory feedback to regulate their body and realize active adaptivity. However, realizing such a feedback-regulation mechan…