CV
Education
- M.Sc. in Control Systems at Imperial College, 2020-2021
- Ph.D in Biorobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 2022-2025 (expected)
Work experience
- Nov. 2021- Sep. 2022: Research Assistant
- King’s College London and Tsinghua University
- Research about optical tactile sensors, including sensor simulation, Sim2Real transfer learning, and reinforcement learning
- Supervisor: Dr. Shan Luo and Dr. Bin Fang
Publications
Z. Chen, F. Renda, A. Le Gall, et al., “Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review,” in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (accepted)
Z. Chen, X. Ren, M. Bernabei, et al., “A Hybrid Adaptive Controller for Soft Robot Interchangeability,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 875-882, Jan. 2024.
S. Zhang, Y. Sun, J. Shan, Z. Chen, et al., “TIRgel: A Visuo-Tactile Sensor with Total Internal Reflection Mechanism for External Observation and Contact Detection,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6307–6314, Oct. 2023.
Z. Chen, S. Zhang, S. Luo, et al., “Tacchi: A Pluggable and Low Computational Cost Elastomer Deformation Simulator for Optical Tactile Sensors,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1239–1246, Mar. 2023.
S. Zhang, Z. Chen, Y. Gao, et al., “Hardware Technology of Vision-Based Tactile Sensor: A Review,” in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 22, pp. 21410-21427, Nov. 2022.
Peer review records
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)