· Curriculum Vitae
Postdoctoral Researcher · Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego · dongtingli@ucsd.edu
Journal articles
Li, D., Tolley, M. T., & Gravish, N. Pneumatic neurons for soft robots enable inflate-and-fire networks for rhythmic motion. — arXiv preprint, 2026.
Liu, D., Li, D., Tolley, M. T., & Gravish, N. Soft feeding mechanism for mobile everting robots. Soft Robotics — submitted, 2025.
Yumbla, E. Q., Li, D., Nibi, T. M., Aukes, D. M., & Zhang, W. A kinematically constrained Kalman filter for sensor fusion in a wearable origami robot. ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control, 2023.
Li, D., Quinones Yumbla, E., Olivas, A., Sugar, T., Ben Amor, H., Lee, H., Zhang, W., & Aukes, D. M. Origami-inspired wearable robot for trunk support. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2022.
Li, D., Huang, S., Tang, Y., Marvi, H., Tao, J., & Aukes, D. M. Compliant fins for locomotion in granular media. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
Doroudchi, A., Khodambashi, R., Sharifzadeh, M., Li, D., Berman, S., & Aukes, D. M. Tracking control of a miniature 2-DOF manipulator with hydrogel actuators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
Huang, S., Tang, Y., Bagheri, H., Li, D., Ardente, A., Aukes, D. M., Marvi, H., & Tao, J. Effects of friction anisotropy on upward burrowing behavior of soft robots in granular materials. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020.
Conference papers
Li, D., Tolley, M. T., & Gravish, N. Multi-functional granular propulsion: bio-inspired orientation control and local fluidization for crawl-to-dig transitions. Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
Li, D., Tolley, M. T., & Gravish, N. Autonomous burrowing and retrieval of soft robotic anchors in granular media. Proc. 8th IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2025.
Awards
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