Publications

2025

  1. Surrogate compliance modeling enables reinforcement learned locomotion gaits for soft robots
    Jingxian Wang, Mingsong Jiang, Luis A. Ramirez, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07114 2025
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2024

  1. A reconfigurable soft linkage robot via internal “virtual” joints
    Mingsong Jiang, Jingxian Wang, and Nick Gravish
    Soft Robotics 2024
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  2. Pinched tubes for reconfigurable robots
    Daniel Aukes, Mohammad Sharifzadeh, Yunhua Jiang, and 2 more authors
    2024
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2021

  1. Vacuum induced tube pinching enables reconfigurable flexure joints with controllable bend axis and stiffness
    Mingsong Jiang, Qifan Yu, and Nick Gravish
    In 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2021
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  2. Reconfigurable laminates enable multifunctional robotic building blocks
    Mingsong Jiang, and Nicholas Gravish
    Smart Materials and Structures 2021
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  3. Flexoskeleton Fingers: 3D Printed Reconfigurable Ridges Enabling Multi-Functional and Low-Cost Underactuated Grasping
    Qifan Yu, Mingsong Jiang, and Nick Gravish
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021
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  4. Towards Reconfigurable and Adaptive Soft Robots via Hybrid Materials, Designs and Mechanisms
    Mingsong Jiang
    2021

2020

  1. Flexoskeleton printing enables versatile fabrication of hybrid soft and rigid robots
    Mingsong Jiang, Ziyi Zhou, and Nicholas Gravish
    Soft Robotics 2020
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  2. Knuckles that buckle: compliant underactuated limbs with joint hysteresis enable minimalist terrestrial robots
    Mingsong Jiang, Rongzichen Song, and Nick Gravish
    In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020
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2019

  1. Rapid prototyping of insect-exoskeleton inspired robots
    Mingsong Jiang, and Nick Gravish
    In 9th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 2019) 2019
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2018

  1. Sliding-layer laminates: A robotic material enabling robust and adaptable undulatory locomotion
    Mingsong Jiang, and Nick Gravish
    In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018
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  2. Sliding-layer laminates: a new robotic material enabling robust and adaptable undulatory locomotion
    Mingsong Jiang
    2018