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126. In collaboration with Prof. Weifei Hu from Zhejiang University, a paper entitled “A digital twin of intelligent robotic grasping based on single-loop-optimized differentiable architecture search and sim-real collaborative learning” accepted in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. June 2024.
125. CoMAR research work entitled “Modeling compliant bistable mechanisms: An energy method based on the high-order smooth curvature model”, accepted by International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Apr. 2024.
124. Wiley Top Downloaded Article: Our paper was one of the most downloaded during its first 12 months of publication in WIND ENERGY. March 2024.
123. Tinghao Liu, a 3rd-year PhD student, winner of the Heidenhain Scholarship for euspen’s 24th International Conference and Exhibition to be held in Dublin, Ireland. (Covering conference fee and a networking dinner and single contribution of €300 (euros) towards your accommodation and subsistence costs). March 2024.
122. Jiaxiang Zhu, a final year PhD student, winner for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2023. Feb. 2024
121. Dr. Hao's research paper entitled "Design and Analysis of Leaf Beam Single-Translation Constraint Compliant Modules and the Resulting Spherical Joints" accepted in ASME JMD. Dec 2023.
120. Collaboration with Prof. Ningning Wang's group leads to publication (An electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with compact flexure guide for low frequency applications) in Smart Materials and Structures. Dec. 2023.
119. Many congratulations to Siyuan Ye, whose paper entitled "Design and modelling of a non-flat foldable tubular kirigami with compliant joints" accepted in ASME JMR. Dec 2023.
118. Dr. Hao as the team lead won the UCC President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2023 (team award). Nov 2023
117. Dr. Hao gave an Invited talk in 2023 International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application, NEU, Shenyang, 14 Sep. 2023.
116. Dr. Hao was presented the Outstanding Contribution Award in Education, by Ireland Cork Chinese Business Association, 19 Sep. 2023.
115. Siyuan Ye's project titled “An Origami-inspired Iris Valve” won the 3rd Place in the Graduate division of the ASME SMRDC 2023: 2023 Finalists (google.com) August 2023.
114. Siyuan Ye, a 3rd-year PhD student, won the Gold Best Student Paper Award at the 6th IFToMM International Conference on Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Applications, Poitiers, 24-26 May 2023.
113. Shiyao Li has sucesssfully passed her PhD viva (minor corrections). Her PhD thesis title is "Design and Analysis of Compliant Universial Joints and Compliant Continuum Robots". Shiyao is the first Female PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UCC. May 2023
112. Dr. Haitong Liang, runner-up for UCC School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2022 (with cash prize of 200 Euros), May 2023
111. Dr. Hao elected as the General Chair of ASME IDETC/CIE 2025.
110. Many congratulations to Pengyuan Zhao, our previous visiting PhD student, whose paper is accepted in IJMS. May 2023.
109. Many congratulations to Jiaxiang Zhu whose 2nd journal paper during his PhD accepted in MMT. Apr. 2023
108. “Current Trends and Prospects in Compliant Continuum Robots: A Survey” published in Actuators has been selected as the Editor's Choice Articles of 2021. Actuators | Editor's choice (mdpi.com). Well done, Shiyao.
107. Kong Zhang, a PhD student, won honourable mention in the first Forum for Chinese PhD students in Ireland and North Ireland. Dec. 2022
106. Shiyao Li, a PhD student, won the best presentation award in the first Forum for Chinese PhD students in Ireland and North Ireland (with cash prize of 300 Euros). Dec 2022.
105. Dr. Hao was elected Fellow of ASME, having the privilege of being one of only 3513 Fellows. Oct. 2022
104. Cover image published in Wind Energy (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991824/2022/25/11 ) is based on our Review Article "Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends". Oct 2022.
103. Many congratulations to Pongsiri, our previous visiting PhD student, whose paper accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter. Oct. 2022.
102. Many congratulations to Haitong Liang on his paper accepted in MMT. He presents a novel mechanism with helical motion and origami-like foldability, in collaboration with Prof. Ketao Zhang from Queen Mary University of London. September 2022.
101. Dr. Hao selected as the Secretary of ASDC TC in ASMS branch of ASME (now SMASIS division). September 2022.
100. Collaborating paper entitled "A Constraint-Flow Based Method of Synthesizing XYθ Compliant Parallel Mechanisms with Fully Decoupled Motion and Actuation Characteristics" accepted in MMT. August 2022.
99. Many congratulations to Yinjun Zhao on his locking joint paper accepted in MMT. August 2022
98. Many congratulations to Siyuan Ye on her first Origami research paper published in Actuators. August 2022
97. Prof. Salih ABDELAZIZ from LIRMM of Université de Montpellier joined our group and will be working with us for one year at UCC. August 2022.
96. Many congratulations to Shiyao Li and his team members on winning the 2nd-place in the 2022 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition. August 2022
95. Winner of the 2022 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award for the paper entitled “Design and nonlinear analysis of an overconstraint based constant amplification compliant mechanisms”, by Jiaxiang, Zhu, Guangbo Hao*, Tinghao Liu, Haiyang Li. August 2022
94. Many congratulations to Omer Khalid, whose review paper accepted in Wind Energy. July 2022.
93. Many congratulations to Seyyed Kargar, whose second paper accepted in Sensors (special issue of Sensors in 2021). July 2022
92. Dr. G. Hao invited as an Associate Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory, June 2022.
91. Many congratulations to Seyeed Kargar, won a participation award for outstanding research at the SFI centre MaREI Symposium 2022
90. Many congratulations to Paddy McGowan on his paper accepted in ASME JMR. Apr. 2022
89. Great Congratulations to Haitong Liang , who passed his PhD viva with a flying colour. Mar. 2022
88. Many congratulations to Seyyed Kargar, whose review paper is accepted in Sensors. Feb. 2022
87. Many congratulations to Haitong Liang, whose paper is accepted in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. Feb. 2022
86. Many congratulations to Jiaxiang Zhu, whose paper is accepted in ASME JMD. Jan. 2022.
85. Many congratulations to Shiyao Li, whose paper is accepted in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. Jan. 2022
84. Many congratulations to Shiyao Li, whose paper is accepted in ASME JMR. Sep. 2021
83. Congratulations to Yingyue Chen, who has sucessfully passed her thesis examination and awarded a research master degree in UCC. Sep. 2021.
82. Jiaxiang Zhu, a 1st-year PhD student won 2nd place in the 2021 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (https://sites.google.com/view/2021smrdc/home). Well done to Jiaxiang. August 2021.
81. Siyuan Ye, a 1st-year PhD student won the Student Design Challenge Award (Innovation Award) in the IEEE/IFToMM ReMAR2021 Conference . August 2021.
80. Omer Khalid, a 1st-year PhD student won Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from WECANet COST Action (EUR 2640). Well done to Omer. July 2021
79. Jiaxiang Zhu, a 1st-year PhD student selected to the Final Round of the 2021 ASME Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition (SMRDC). Well done to Jiaxiang. July 2021.
78. Shiyao Li published a review paper on compliant continuum robots in Actuators. Well done to Shiyao. July 2021.
77. Collaboration paper (Pietro Bilancia*, Mario Baggetta, Guangbo Hao, Giovanni Berselli, 2021, “A Variable Section Beams based Bi-BCM Formulation for the Kinetostatic Analysis of Cross-Axis Flexural Pivots”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences) with University of Genova accepted. June 2021
76. Shiyao Li, a 3rd year PhD student, runner’s up for School of Engineering and Architecture Postgraduate Research Publication of the Year 2020 (200 Euro cash prize). April 2021
75. Invited review paper (Haitong Liang, Guangbo Hao*, Oskar Z. Olszewski, 2021, “A comprehensive review on vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesting from the aspect of compliant mechanisms”, Sensors and Actuators A) has been accepted. Many congratulations on Haitong on this achievement. March 2021
74. Collaboration paper with Yu-Hao Chang and Chien-Sheng Liu published in Sensors and Actuators: A. Yu-Hao will join CoMAR as a visiting PhD student from March 2021. Feb. 2021.
73. Mechanical Master student, Rohan Powar, awarded 3rd prize in IMechE & Engineers Ireland Student Engineering Competition: Individual Applied Project Competition 2020. Many congratulations to Rohan. Nov 2020.
72. Hugely congratulate George on his successful viva with flying colours. 29 Oct 2020
71. PhD student Shiyao Li published her first journal paper in MMT. Many congratulations. Oct 2020.
70. Dr. Guangbo Hao was invited to give an invited talk in ASME SMASIS 2020: https://event.asme.org/SMASIS/Speakers
69. Master student Jiaxiang Zhu published his paper in Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Many congratulations to Jiaxiang, June 2020.
68. Master student Ke Wu published his paper in MMT. Many congratulations to Ke, May 2020
67. Shiyao Li, PhD student, awarded the UCC SEFS PG Travel Bursary 2019-2020, Jan 2020.
66. Dr. Hao is an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics from Nov 2019: https://journaltool.asme.org/home/Mastheads.cfm?JournalID=23 .
65. Dr. Hao is the new Editor-in-Chief of Mechanical Sciences from June 2019.
64. Dr. Hao was invited as a Keynote Speaker in The 12th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 8-11 August 2019, Shenyang, China. https://www.icira2019.org/invited-speeches
63. Dr. Hao was selected as the overseas editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Dec. 2018. https://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+engineering/journal/10033?detailsPage=editorialBoard
62. Dr. Guangbo Hao was invited as a plenary speaker in the 3rd Compliant Mechanisms Workshop to be held in Guangzhou, 23-25 Nov. 2018. http://www2.scut.edu.cn/smae/2018/1204/c12a298171/page.htm
61. Many Congratulations on Dr. Haiyang Li, who joined Northeastern University, China, as an Associate Professor. Good luck with him.
60. Warmly welcome Mr. Paddy McGowan formally started his PhD in UCC from 25 Sep. 2018.
59. Dr. Guangbo Hao was elected to the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee with terms ending in 2024 (https://sites.google.com/site/asmemrc/roster ) .
58. Winner of the 2018 ASME Compliant Mechanisms Award for the coauthored paper "Modeling Large Deflections of Initially Curved Beams in Compliant Mechanisms Using Chained Beam-Constraint-Model" by Guimin Chen, Fulei Ma, Guangbo Hao and Weidong Zhu. https://sites.google.com/site/asmemrc/awards/compliant-mechanisms-award-recipients
57. Dr. Hao was selected as one of recipients of the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution in Peer Review (Mechanism and Machine Theory).
56. PhD student Mr. George Joseph was presented the best presentation award for his work “Fragility Analysis Using Energy Harvesters” in The 5th Workshop in Devices, Materials, and Structures for Energy Harvesting and Storage, under the supervision of Dr. Vikram Pakrashi (UCD) and Dr. Guangbo Hao (UCC)
55. Dr. Hao was presented the ASME Compliant Mechanism Award in Applications as a solo author (with 500 US dollar cash prize) at the 2017 IDETC Conference at Cleveland, USA (with 500 US dollar). This award was issued by ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Technical Committee.
54. Abhilash NAYAK (PhD student in Ecole Centrale de Nantes), and Haiyang LI (PhD student in UCC), under the supervision of Dr. Hao (UCC) and Dr. Stéphane CARO (CNRS), finalists in the 2017 ASME Student Mechanism & Robotics Design Competition for their work: A NOVEL RECONFIGURABLE COMPLIANT GRIPPER (1 out of 6 teams selected for the graduate category in the world, and travel grant provided for travelling to Ohio, USA)
53. Dr. Hao was invited to serve as the Program Chair in the 4th IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR2018), hosted at Delft University of Technology.
52. Prof. Chien-Sheng Liu from Taiwan National Chung Cheng University visited Dr. Hao's lab in 25 April 2017.
51. Invited paper "Design and analytical analysis of a large-range tri-symmetrical 2R1T compliant mechanis" accepted by Microsystem technologies, which is a collaboration paper with Chongqing University. April 2017.
50. A solely authored paper : “A Multi-axis, Large-output, Sensing Framework of Integrating Linear Optical Encoders for Nanopositioning Systems” is accepted by IEEE Sensor Letters. April 2017.
49. Paper co-authored by Dr. Hao and Dr. He entitled "Designing a Monolithic Tip-Tilt-Piston Flexure Manipulator" accepted in Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. April 2017.
48. Mr. Heraldas Vaivada has been awarded an UCC SEFS Summer Bursary 2017 to join Dr. Hao's group for doing a project on: Revisiting and reassessing the kinematic rationality of fitness/exercise equipment.
47. A solely authored paper entitled “Determinate synthesis of symmetrical, monolithic tip-tilt-piston flexure stages” is accepted by Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME Transactions) as the first accepted one in 2017.
46. Dr. Haiyang Li graduated from Dr. Hao's group with a PhD degree awarded on 24 Feb 2017. Dr. Li will start a Postdoc fellowship in Tyndall National Institute.
45. Collaboration paper (A distributed-compliance AF VCM actuator) with Taiwan presented in Japan on 19 Jan 2017
44. Congratulations on Karen Mcdonnell who won the National Overall Student MEETA Awards on 17 Nov 2017.
43. Dr. Hao was invited to write independent comments for the Magazine of Royal Society of Chemistry: Microrobot gets to grips with bubbles: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/microrobot-gets-to-grips-with-bubbles/1017646.article
42. Congratulations to Haiyang Li who has successfully passed his PhD Viva, award with minor corrections (PhD ceremony due on Feb. 2017).
41. Dr. Hao was invited as the Executive Editor of IFToMM journal Mechanical Sciences (IF: 1.20) by Prof. Just Herder (Head of Department, Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology) (http://www.mechanical-sciences.net/editorial_board.html).
40. Group members (undergraduates Sean Finn and Tim Farrell) supervised by Dr. Hao are finalists in the 2016 ASME Student Mechanism & Robotics Design Competition! (video can be found by clicking here)
39. Dr. Hao gave an invited Keynote presentation at ISIR of Paris on 8th April in the Workshop of Compliant Mechanisms under the framework of GDR.
38. PhD student George V. Joseph was awarded a 3-month Summer Internship in Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High-Tech Innovations, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
37. Congratulations to the second-year student Mr. Mehdi Riza who was awarded the UCC Summer Bursary 2016 for his 8-week project under the supervision of Dr. Hao.
36. PhD student Haiyang Li was awarded Travel grant for attending Workshop on Software and Applications of Algebraic Geometry in Notre Dame University, USA
35. Irish Research Council Ulysses 2015 awarded to Dr. Hao for a joint collaboration between Ireland and France, Jan 2016.
34. Dr. Hao was invited to visit Xidian University and gave an talk entitled "New stiffness and structure characteristics of compliant mechanisms", Dec 2015. http://eme.xidian.edu.cn/a/xuekekeyan/hezuojiaoliu/20151228/713.html
33. Many Congratulations on our previous group member Mr. James Foody who was awarded 2015 Best Young Entrepreneur. https://www.ucc.ie/en/about/uccnews/fullstory-613985-en.html; http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3NjYyMDEyMg==&mid=402166684&idx=1&sn=6d3f2020c31c2ea42d5e353b22c5847d#rd
32.Congratulations on Haiyang Li (an IRC funded PhD student) short-listed for "2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad", recommended by Section of Education Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Ireland.
31. Best Interactive Poster Award in MR-6 Compliant Mechanisms and Micro/Nano Mechanisms in ASME 2015 IDETC/CIE, Boston, MA, USA, for the paper entitled "Compliant Mechanism Reconfiguration Based on Position Space Concept for reducing Parasitic Motion" by Haiyang Li and Guangbo Hao. Mr. Haiyang is funded by IRC.
30. Collaboration paper selected as the Best Student Paper Award in Third IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, July 2015: http://remar2015.buaa.edu.cn/.
29. UCC Excels in Global Ranking: http://www.ucc.ie/en/about/uccnews/fullstory-550912-en.html
28. UCC shines in the EU sponsored U-Multirank http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/irish-universities-rank-high-in-research-output-eu-study-1.2157967 .
27. Another co-authored paper with Beihang University accepted for publication in Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (ASME). March 2015.
26. Journal paper entitled "A Constraint and Position Identification (CPI) Approach for the Synthesis of Decoupled Spatial Translational Compliant Parallel Manipulators" is accepted for publication in Mechanism and Machine Theory. 17 Feb 2015.
25. Dr. Hao was awarded the RIA Charlemont Grant. Picture shown below is the ceremony held in RIA headquarter in Dublin.
24. A collaboration paper with Beihang University entitled "Design and Analysis of a Compliant Parallel Pan-Tilt Platform" published online in Meccanica. Feb 2015
23. A paper entitled "Nonlinear Analytical Modeling and Characteristic Analysis of a Class of Compound Multi-beam Parallelogram Mechanisms" has been accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. 01 Jan 2015.
22. Dr. Hao is awarded the Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grants 2015 to conduct international cooperation with Prof. Luo at University of Strathclyde. Dec 2014.
21. Dr. Hao has been selected as the Topical Editor of Mechanical Sciences (from June 2014).
20. Paper entitled "Extended Nonlinear Analytical Models of Compliant Parallelogram Mechanisms: Third-order Models" accepted in Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. May 2014.
19. Paper entitled "Conceptual Designs of Multi-DOF Compliant Parallel Manipulators Composed of Wire-Beam Based Compliant Mechanisms" accepted in Proceedings of the IMechE, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. April 2014.
18. Shortlist for IMechE/YES Poster Presentation Competition 2014, presented to taught master student, Mr. Ronan Hand, under Dr. Hao's supervision.
17. Paper entitled "Synthesis of Decoupled Spatial Translational Compliant Parallel Mechanisms via a Freedom and Actuation Method (FAM)" presented in ASME 2014 12th Biennial Conferences on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA2014), Feb 2014.
16. Paper entitled "Design of 3-Legged XYZ Compliant Parallel Manipulators with Minimised Parasitic Rotations"accepted for publication in Robotica. Feb 2014.
15. Paper entitled "A Planar Reconfigurable Linear Rigid-body Motion Linkage with Two Operation Modes" accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IMechE, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. Jan 2014.
14. Paper entitled "Nonlinear Modelling and Characteristic Analysis of Symmetrical-Beam Based Spatial Compliant Parallel Modules for Planar Motion" accepted for publicationn Mechanism and Machine Theory. Jan 2014.
13. Dr. Hao gave an invited talk in University of Macau, China, December 2013.
12. Collaboration paper entitled "Kinematic Analysis of a Single-Loop Reconfigurable 7R Mechanism with Multiple Operation Modes" accepted for publication in Robotica, November 2013
11. SFI 2013 ISCA China Travel Grants awarded.
10. Sololy authored paper entitled "A 2-Legged XY Parallel Flexure Motion Stage with Minimised Parasitic Rotation" accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IMechE, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science.
9. UCC 2013 Stratigic Research Funds awarded.
8. UCC Strategic Research Fund-PhD scholarships available for application. The application form and information on the SRF may also be found at: http://www.ucc.ie/research/rio/fuf.html.
7. Two papers (solely authored by Dr. Guangbo Hao) accepted for publication in Mechanical Sciences. One paper proposes the simplified PRBMs for spatial multi-beam modules, and the other proposes a monolithic XYZ compliant parallel manipulator with redundant design (extended life).
6. UCC EEE subject ranks Top1 in Ireland, and Top 150 in the world (QS ranking 2013) in terms of our excellent achievements such as three IEEE fellows in our department.
5. Sciences Without Borders projects available in Compliant Mechanisms and Robotics Group. Details can be found in http://www.ucc.ie/en/study/science-without-borders/
4. Irish Research Council (IRC) Postgraduate and Postdoctoral funding 2013-2014 are available for applicants (http://www.research.ie/funding/postdoctoral-funding), if you would like to apply for this funding with me, please contact me as soon as possible. The deadlines for postgraduate and postdoctoral are 1 March 2012 and 11 March 2013, respectively.
3. Congratulation to our group members Mr. James Foody and Mr. Karl Maxwell who won the third-place for the prestigious Speak Out for Engineering 2013 with cash prize for their final year group project: "Low-Cost Under-Actuated Self-Adaptive Bionic Robotic Hand ".
2. Special issue on "Advances in Compliant Mechanisms: Theories, Tools and Applications": http://www.mechanical-sciences.net/submission/scheduled_special_issues.html#3
1. Prestious IRC Embark PhD scholarship is awarded to Mr. Haiyang Li. This is a extraoridinary achivement for Haiyang since IRC rarely awarded this sholarship to non-EU student outside of Ireland.
0. Dr. Guangbo Hao was awarded 3rd prize of Young Engineers Research paper Prize 2012 (with 200 Euro) based on his paper entitled "Compliant Parallel Manipulators".
