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Wang Zhongkui

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Robotics

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Academic background
1.	2007/09～2011/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed Doctor of Engineering

Business career
1.	2022/04/01 ～	Associate Professor │ Department of Robotics │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019/04/01 ～ 2022/03/31	│ │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2014/04/01 ～ 2019/03/31	Assistant Professor │ Department of Robotics, │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2013/04/01 ～ 2014/03/31	Senior Researcher │ │ Ritsumeikan University
5.	2012/09/01 ～ 2013/02/28	│ │ Academic Guest in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Committee and society
1.	2022/02	The 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2022) Associate Editor
2.	2021/11	Frontiers in Robotics and AI Associate Editor
3.	2021/11	2022 The 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM 2022) Publicity Chair
4.	2021/10	2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Associate Editor
5.	2021/09	The 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) Local Arrangement Member
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Research activities
1.		Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
2.		Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Subject of research
1.	Development and establishment of basic principle on pneumatic soft gripper
2.	Finite element modeling and mechanical parameter estimation of biological organs and tissue
3.	Establishment of training and evaluation system for senior citizens' oral care

Present specialized field
Intelligent robotics, Intelligent mechanics/ Mechanical systems, Biomedical engineering/ Biomaterial science and engineering (Keyword：Soft robotics, finite element method, parameter estimation, rheology object modeling, modeling of biological organs and tissues)

Books
1.	2018/06	A Plug-In for Automating the Finite Element Modeling of Flatfoot │ Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies │ 98,pp.248-259 (Co-authored)
2.	2017/05	An Indentation-Type Instrument for Measuring Soft Tissue Elasticity │ Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017 │ 71,pp.121-129 (Co-authored)
3.	2015/06	Study of Surgical Simulation of Flatfoot Using a Finite Element Model │ Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015 │ 45,pp.353-363 (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2022/12	Shell Gripper Inspired by Human Finger Structure for Automatically Packaging Agricultural Product │ 2022 IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots │ (Co-authored)
2.	2022/11	Application of High-Photoelasticity Polyurethane to Tactile Sensor for Robot Hands │ Polymers │ 14 (Co-authored)
3.	2022/07/13	Jellyfish Grasping and Transportation with a Wire-Driven Gripper and Deep Learning Based Recognition │ 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2022) │ (Co-authored)
4.	2022/07	Analytical modeling of a membrane-based pneumatic soft gripper │ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters │ (Co-authored)
5.	2022/04	Analytical modeling of a soft pneu-net actuator subjected to planar tip contact │ IEEE Transactions on Robotics │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/09/09	A ROS 2-based robotic system for picking-and-placing tasks (第39回日本ロボット学会学術講演会（RSJ2021）)
2.	2021/06/02	A soft robotic hand based on bellows actuators for dishwashing automation (International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2021)
3.	2021/01/17	Cyber Physical System Considering Physical Contacts in Robotic Manipulation for Improving Automation in Food Industry (The 4th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management)
4.	2019/04/15	Annular Shell Gripper of Food Grasping (2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019))
5.	2018/10/16	A ROS System for Automating Food Packaging Process (The 14th Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics (MPR 2018))
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Winning science prize
1.	2020/06	2020 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots Best Paper Award (3D printing an assembled biomimetic robotic finger)
2.	2018/08	2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-time Computing and Robotics Best Paper Award on Robotics (A Soft Gripper with Adjustable Stiffness and Variable Working Length for Handling Food Material)
3.	2017/11	2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP2017) Best Paper Award (Design and Fabrication of a Soft-Bodied Gripper with Integrated Curvature Sensors)
4.	2017/07	2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR 2017) Finalist of Best Conference Paper Award (Real-time Curvature Estimation of Printable Soft Gripper using Electro-conductive Yarn)
5.	2017/06	2017国際食品工業展 (FOOMA2017) アカデミックプラザ FOOMA AP賞グランプリ (食品材料ハンドリング用ソフトロボットハンド)
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Acquisition patent
1.	2009/02	Design of close-chained suspension frame of six-wheeled lunar rover （CN101357689）
2.	2005/09	Design of mutual locking mechanism （CN1664292）

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0003-4037-3306