Below are a list of my publications, listed categorically in order of date of publication (most recent at the top). Representative papers are indicated in brown.
Cai, C. J., Huang, H., & Ren, H. (2024). Untethered bistable origami crawler for confined applications. Communications Engineering, 3(1), 150.
Cai, C. J., Kalairaj, M. S., Huang, H., Chen, P. Y., & Ren, H. Transfer‐Free Creation of Hierarchical Wrinkle Patterns for Stretchable and Compliant Strain and Contact Sensing. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2301017.
Cai, C. J., Yeow, B. S., Huang, H., Laschi, C., & Ren, H. (2023). Magnetically Actuated Lamina Emergent Mechanism for Bimodal Crawling and Flipping Locomotion. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
Teo, Y. X., Cai, C. J., Yeow, B. S., Tse, Z. T. H., & Ren, H. (2022). Auto-generating of 2D tessellated crease patterns of 3D biomimetic spring origami structure. Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2(2), 100036.
Yeow, B. S., Yang, H., Sivaperuman Kalairaj, M., Gao, H., Cai, C. J., Xu, S., ... & Ren, H. (2022). Magnetically Steerable Serial and Parallel Structures by Mold‐Free Origami Templating and Domain Setting. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(6), 2101140.
Giang, T. N. L., Cai, C. J., Ponraj, G., & Ren, H. (2021). Magnetically Deployable Robots Using Layered Lamina Emergent Mechanism. Applied Sciences, 12(1), 14.
Sivaperuman Kalairaj, M., Cai, C. J., & Ren, H. (2021). Untethered origami worm robot with diverse multi-leg attachments and responsive motions under magnetic actuation. Robotics, 10(4), 118.
Huang, H., Cai, C. J., Yeow, B. S., Ouyang, J., & Ren, H. (2021). Highly stretchable and Kirigami-structured strain sensors with long silver nanowires of high aspect ratio. Machines, 9(9), 186.
Swaminathan, R., Cai, C. J., Yuan, S., & Ren, H. (2021). Multiphysics simulation of magnetically actuated robotic origami worms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(3), 4923-4930.
Cai, C. J., Xiao, X., Kalairaj, M. S., Lee, I. J. J., Mugilvannan, A. K., Yeow, B. S., ... & Ren, H. (2020). Diversified and untethered motion generation via crease patterning from magnetically actuated caterpillar-inspired origami robot. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 26(3), 1678-1688.
Zhang, L., Kumar, K. S., He, H., Cai, C. J., He, X., Gao, H., ... & Ouyang, J. (2020). Fully organic compliant dry electrodes self-adhesive to skin for long-term motion-robust epidermal biopotential monitoring. Nature communications, 11(1), 4683.
Ramachandra, K., Cai, C. J., Lalithkumar, S., Cai, X., Tse, Z. T., & Ren, H. (2020). Tunable stiffness using negative Poisson's ratio toward load-bearing continuum tubular mechanisms in medical robotics. In Control Theory in Biomedical Engineering (pp. 317-358). Academic Press.
Li, J., Yeow, B. S., Ponraj, G., Kumar, K. S., Cai, C. J., & Ren, H. (2021, July). Kirigami strain sensing on balloon catheters with temporary tattoo paper. In 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Yeow, B. S., Cai, C. J., Kalairaj, M. S., Hoo, F. W., Lee, Z. X., Tan, J. C. S., ... & Ren, H. (2021, May). Origami-inspired snap-through bistability in parallel and curved mechanisms through the inflection of degree four vertexes. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 10863-10869). IEEE.
Sanghani, P., Cai, C. J., Chang, T. H., Delecourt, B., Lim, C. M., Chen, P. Y., & Ren, H. (2019, December). Biomimetic Stretchable Sensor Resembling Shar-Pei Crumples with 2D Materials towards Collaborative Robotic Minimally Invasive Procedures. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) (pp. 615-620). IEEE.
Ren, H., Chen, C. X., Cai, C. J., Ramachandra, K., & Lalithkumar, S. (2017, July). Pilot study and design conceptualization for a slim single-port surgical manipulator with spring backbones and catheter-size channels. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) (pp. 499-504). IEEE.