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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
75
Citations
17494
World Ranking
290
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Jian S. Dai is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular focus on control and systems engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as soft robotics and applications, robotic mechanisms and dynamics, modular robots and swarm intelligence, robot manipulation and learning, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, piezoelectric actuators and control, and robotic locomotion and control.

Jian S. Dai has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors. These include Rongjie Kang, Zhibin Song, Giuseppe Carbone, Emmanouil Spyrakos-Papastavridis, and Sicong Liu.

The venues where their research is most often published include Mechanism and Machine Theory, Robotica, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Jian S. Dai include:

  • Knowledge Graph Alignment Network with Gated Multi-Hop Neighborhood Aggregation (2020), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Geometric constraint-based modeling and analysis of a novel continuum robot with Shape Memory Alloy initiated variable stiffness (2020), The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Reconfigurability of the origami-inspired integrated 8R kinematotropic metamorphic mechanism and its evolved 6R and 4R mechanisms (2021), Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • Minimally Model-Based Trajectory Tracking and Variable Impedance Control of Flexible-Joint Robots (2020), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • A Mechanically Intelligent Crawling Robot Driven by Shape Memory Alloy and Compliant Bistable Mechanism (2020), Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Jian S. Dai has also contributed to academic literature in book form, with a publication titled Analysis and Synthesis of Compliant Parallel Mechanisms-Screw Theory Approach, released in 2020 through Springer Nature.

Among the awards received is the distinction of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, granted in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Product Cost Estimation: Technique Classification and Methodology Review

    Adnan Niazi;Jian S. Dai;Stavroula Balabani;Lakmal Seneviratne

  • Mobility in Metamorphic Mechanisms of Foldable/Erectable Kinds

    Jian Dai;J. Rees Jones

  • Mobility of Overconstrained Parallel Mechanisms

    Jian S. Dai;Zhen Huang;Harvey Lipkin

  • Euler–Rodrigues formula variations, quaternion conjugation and intrinsic connections

    Jian S. Dai;Jian S. Dai

  • 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

    J J Yu;S S Bi;G H Zong;Jian Dai

  • Matrix Representation of Topological Changes in Metamorphic Mechanisms

    Jian S. Dai;John Rees Jones

  • Kinematic design considerations for minimally invasive surgical robots: an overview.

    Chin-Hsing Kuo;Jian S. Dai;Prokar Dasgupta

  • Mobility Change in Two Types of Metamorphic Parallel Mechanisms

    Dongming Gan;Jian S. Dai;Qizheng Liao

  • Interrelationship between screw systems and corresponding reciprocal systems and applications

    Jian S. Dai;John Rees Jones

  • A High-performance Redundantly Actuated Parallel Mechanism for Ankle Rehabilitation

    J.A. Saglia;N.G. Tsagarakis;J.S. Dai;D.G. Caldwell

  • Control Strategies for Patient-Assisted Training Using the Ankle Rehabilitation Robot (ARBOT)

    Jody A. Saglia;Nikos G. Tsagarakis;Jian S. Dai;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Geometric constraint-based modeling and analysis of a novel continuum robot with Shape Memory Alloy initiated variable stiffness:

    Chenghao Yang;Chenghao Yang;Shineng Geng;Ian D. Walker;David T. Branson

  • Sprained Ankle Physiotherapy Based Mechanism Synthesis and Stiffness Analysis of a Robotic Rehabilitation Device

    Jian S. Dai;Tieshi Zhao;Christopher Nester

  • Orientation and Workspace Analysis of the Multifingered Metamorphic Hand—Metahand

    J.S. Dai;Delun Wang;L. Cui

  • Model-Free Control for Continuum Robots Based on an Adaptive Kalman Filter

    Minhan Li;Rongjie Kang;David T. Branson;Jian S. Dai

  • Topology and Constraint Analysis of Phase Change in the Metamorphic Chain and Its Evolved Mechanism

    Ketao Zhang;Jian S. Dai;Yuefa Fang

  • Mobility analysis of a complex structured ball based on mechanism decomposition and equivalent screw system analysis

    Jian S. Dai;Duanling Li;Qixian Zhang;Guoguang Jin

  • Polyethylenimine-grafted copolymer of poly(l-lysine) and poly(ethylene glycol) for gene delivery

    Jian Dai;Seyin Zou;Yuanyuan Pei;Du Cheng

  • An historical review of the theoretical development of rigid body displacements from Rodrigues parameters to the finite twist

    Jian S. Dai

  • Geometric analysis and synthesis of the metamorphic robotic hand

    Jian S. Dai;Delun Wang

  • Synthesis, Mobility, and Multifurcation of Deployable Polyhedral Mechanisms With Radially Reciprocating Motion

    Guowu Wei;Yao Chen;Jian S. Dai;Jian S. Dai

  • A Novel 4-DOF Origami Grasper With an SMA-Actuation System for Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Marco Salerno;Ketao Zhang;Arianna Menciassi;Jian S. Dai

  • Constraint analysis on mobility change of a novel metamorphic parallel mechanism

    Dongming Gan;Dongming Gan;Jian S. Dai;Qizheng Liao

Frequent Co-Authors

Lakmal Seneviratne
Lakmal Seneviratne Khalifa University
Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Kaspar Althoefer
Kaspar Althoefer Queen Mary University of London
Tian Huang
Tian Huang Tianjin University
Honghai Liu
Honghai Liu University of Portsmouth
Michael Luck
Michael Luck University of Sussex
Xintao Shuai
Xintao Shuai Sun Yat-sen University
Fulei Chu
Fulei Chu Tsinghua University
Zi-Qiang Zhu
Zi-Qiang Zhu Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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