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About
Dr. Mingli Dong is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics and optical fiber sensing, whose work is reshaping how we monitor and control flexible, bio-inspired machines. Her primary research areas include soft robotic sensing, optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) shape sensors, and underwater robotic systems. Dr. Dong’s most significant contribution is the development of FBG-based shape sensing for soft robots, demonstrated in her highly cited work on a silicone octopus tentacle model (54 citations), which enables real-time curvature and posture measurement in deformable structures. She also advanced simultaneous robot–world and hand–eye calibration without a calibration object (24 citations), a method critical for precise, sterile medical robotics. Her innovations extend to morphing wing shape monitoring and stretchable helical optic fibers for curvature and force measurement, directly addressing the challenge of feedback control in soft actuators. With over 150 total citations, Dr. Dong’s research has profound implications for biomedical devices, flexible aerospace structures, and amphibious spherical robots, establishing her as a key figure in creating intelligent, sensor-rich soft robotic systems.
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- 6Study on formation control system for underwater spherical multi-robot10 citations · 2018
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- 9Performance evaluation of spherical robot for amphibious applications4 citations · 2019
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