About the College
About the College Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor
Soft Robots and Actuators
RODRIGUE, HUGO
Research Interest
Soft robotics and actuation
Smart material-based actuation
Pneumatic and fluiding actuation
Manufacturing and 3D printing of polymer parts
Education
(Ph.D.) Seoul National University, Mechanical Engineering, 2015
(M.S.) Polytechnique Montréal, Industrial Engineering, 2010
(B.Eng.) McGill University, Mechanical Engineering, 2008
Experience
2016-current: Sungkyunkwan University, Assistant Professor
2015-2106: Seoul National University, Postdoctoral Researcher
Journal Articles
(2024)
Shape-Memory Alloy-Based Auxetic Smart Metamaterials:
Enabling Inherently Bidirectional Actuation.
ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.
(2024)
Cooperative antagonistic mechanism driven by bidirectional pneumatic artificial muscles for soft robotic joints.
Mechatronics.
97,
(2023)
A series elastic actuator using air and water and its force control.
JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
37,
9
(2023)
Design of Gusseted Pouch Motors for Improved Soft Pneumatic Actuation.
IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS.
(2023)
Harnessing the nonlinear properties of buckling inflatable tubes for complex robotic behaviors.
MATERIALS TODAY.
(2023)
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles.
SOFT ROBOTICS.
10,
1
(2023)
Hyperbaric Vacuum-Based Artificial Muscles for High-Performance Actuation.
ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.
5,
1
(2022)
Design and Performance of a Pneumatic-Based Expanding Torsional Soft Spring Actuator.
Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering.
39,
11
(2022)
Hybrid Robotic Manipulator Using Sensorized Articulated Segment Joints With Soft Inflatable Rubber Bellows.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS.
69,
10
(2022)
Low-Powered and Resilient IR-Based Pigmented Soft Optoelectronic Sensors.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.
14,
33
(2022)
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties.
SOFT ROBOTICS.
(2022)
Design of a Novel Sensing Method for a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuator-Driven 2-Degrees of Freedom Parallel Joint.
SOFT ROBOTICS.
(2022)
Toward the Development of Large-Scale Inflatable Robotic Arms Using Hot Air Welding.
SOFT ROBOTICS.
(2022)
A Positive and Negative Pressure Soft Linear Brake for Wearable Applications.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS.
(2021)
Proprioceptive Soft Pneumatic Gripper for Extreme Environments Using Hybrid Optical Fibers.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS.
6,
4
(2020)
Expanding Pouch Motor Patterns for Programmable Soft Bending Actuation: Enabling Soft Robotic System Adaptations.
IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE.
27,
4
(2019)
Jumping Tensegrity Robot Based on Torsionally Prestrained SMA Springs.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.
11,
43
(2019)
Long Shape Memory Alloy Tendon-based Soft Robotic Actuators and Implementation as a Soft Gripper.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.
9,
(2019)
Origami-Based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscles with Large Contraction Ratios.
SOFT ROBOTICS.
6,
1
(2019)
Design of Paired Pouch Motors for Robotic Applications.
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES.
4,
1
Honors / Awards
2020: Young Researcher Award, Korean Society of Precision Engineering (KSPE)
2015-2016: Korea Research Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea
2011-2015: Korean Government Scholarship Program, National Institute for International Education
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