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Wei-Hsi Chen

Google Scholar ID: s85hvH4AAAAJ

University of Pennsylvania, GRASP lab

Bio-inspired roboticsOrigami roboticsComputational designRobotics co-design

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Academic Achievements

- Presented paper 'Tunable Stiffness for Energy-Efficient Vertical Hopping in a Monopedal Robot Across Varying Ground Profiles' at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Presented paper 'Generalized Gimbal Construction: Algorithmic Design of Kinematic Chains with No Self-collision in Any Configuration' at the Late Breaking Results in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Invited talk at Glaucio Paulino's Group at Princeton in 2025
- Presented paper 'Algorithmic Design of Kinematic Trees Based on CSC Dubins Planning for Link Shapes' at the 2024 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)
- Presented paper 'Kinegami: Open-source Software for Creating Kinematic Chains from Tubular Origami' at the 2024 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics, and Education (8OSME)
- Paper 'Kinegami: Algorithmic Design of Compliant Kinematic Chains from Tubular Origami' selected as an honorable mention for the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award

Research Experience

- Currently working in GRASP Lab on the SLICE MURI project, focusing on designing dynamic robots through origami fabrication.
- Conducted Ph.D. research in Kod*Lab and sunglab, focusing on bio-inspired robotics

Education

- Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, present.
- Ph.D., Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2022, Advisors: Professor Daniel E. Koditschek and Professor Cynthia Sung
- M.S., Robotics, University of Pennsylvania, 2022
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, System and Control Division, National Taiwan University, 2013
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2011

Background

Research Interests: Bio-inspired robotics behavior, integration of systems, computational morphology, and embodied intelligence. Background: My name means 'being the light (of the world)', reminding me to brighten people up with everything I have.

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