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Hai‐Jun Su

Engineering · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1979

Publications

209

Citations

5,020

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

48

Publishing since 1979

Research summary
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This researcher works in mechanical engineering and robotics, focusing on the design and analysis of robotic mechanisms, soft robots, compliant (flexible) mechanisms, and flexible sensors like stretchable strain sensors and tactile sensors. Recent work also explores using AI and large language models to help derive mathematical solutions for robot arm motion planning (inverse kinematics). The work spans both hardware design (soft grippers, actuators, wearable devices) and computational/analytical methods for robotics.

Soft robotics and compliant mechanismsRobot kinematics and AI-assisted designFlexible sensors and actuatorsMaterials science for manufacturing (alloys, additive manufacturing)Rehabilitation and assistive robotics

Publication output was fairly steady at 9-14 papers per year from 2017-2020, dropped notably from 2021-2024, and shows a recent uptick in 2025-2026, though the 5-year average remains lower than the earlier decade.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.6/year recently
2017: 12 publications172018: 12 publications182019: 9 publications192020: 14 publications14202021: 6 publications212022: 9 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 7 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics×11
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory×10
  • Journal of Mechanical Design×4
  • Sensors×3
  • Nanoscale×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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