Biography
I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL working with Professor Daniela Rus. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania advised by Professor Mark Yim (ModLab in UPenn GRASP Lab ). My PhD thesis is about swarm, modular, and parallel robotics, including hardware design, modeling, control, and motion planning of two robotic systems — SMORES-EP and Variable Topology Truss. I am currently working on soft robotics and control, contact modeling, and multimodal sensing for robotics manipulation, including a multimodal dataset of human activities, dexterous robotic hands, textile-based sensing and actuation, and contact modeling of soft materials.
I am on the 2023-2024 job market. Please feel free to reach out if you have potential positions.
- Swarm and Modular Robotics
- Soft Robotics
- Grasping and Manipulation
- Control
- Motion Planning
- Multimodal Sensing
PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2021
University of Pennsylvania
MS in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2014
University of Pennsylvania
BS in Mechanical Engineering and Automation, 2012
Dalian Jiaotong University
Projects
Soft Material Modeling
Simulation engines of soft materials for manipulation tasks.
Textile-based Sensing and Actuation
Textile-based digital fabrication for sensing and actuation.
Robotic Hand
Bio-inspired dexterous robotic hands to imitate human manipulation skills.
ActionSense
A multimodal dataset for human activities
Whole-Body Motion Control in Real Time
Control and planning for dexterous manipulation in real time.
SMORES-EP
SMORES-EP, a hybrid swarm and modular robotic system.
Variable Topology Truss
Variable Topology Truss robots are hyper-redundant parallel modular robots.
Aerial Manipulation
A novel manipulator for aerial manipulation.
Journal Articles
Conference Papers
Contact
- chaoliu[at]csail.mit.edu
- 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139