Kwok Wai Samuel Au
Professor
Leads the BMT group, working on surgical robotics and its control software, medical robotics and prosthetics.
Kwok Wai Samuel Au's lab at CUHK works on soft, surgical & micro robots and human-robot interaction & assistive robots. 47 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly RA-L and T-RO. 5 PhD students and 3 master's students. 17 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 15%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 17
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 2
- 13 papers2024 · T1 0
- 11 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, T-RO, ACC, CoRL, IJRR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots13 papers
- Soft, surgical & micro robots6 papers
- automation engineering0 papers
- medical robotics0 papers
- surgical robotics0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- IJRR (T1)Actuation-constrained control framework for optimal microswarm navigation with swarm stability guarantee (opens in a new tab)
- The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, doi: 10.31256/hsmr26.32Enhanced freehand 3D ultrasound imaging with fusion of white-light and ultrasound imaging (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1109/tase. .3733719Error shifting-based fuzzy event-triggered control for switched interconnected nonlinear full-state constrained systems (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)FingerViP: learning real-world dexterous manipulation with fingertip visual perception
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, doi: 10.1109/tmech. .3688805Hierarchical deformation planning and neural tracking for DLOs in constrained environments (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), doi: 10.1109/biorob66782. .11681818Intraoperative mandibular registration techniques - comparative case studies and clinical recommendations (opens in a new tab)
- CASEPropeller-assisted robust 3D hopping robot with hierarchical force allocation
- ACCShared object manipulation with a team of collaborative quadrupeds
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, doi: 10.1109/tmech. .3670275Stiffness modeling and experiments on a low-tension, fully actuated, cable-driven manipulator with a stiffness regulator module (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, doi: 10.1007/s11548-026-03722-zSurg-NAT+: negation-aware vision–language refinement for fine-grained surgical understanding (opens in a new tab)
- The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, doi: 10.31256/hsmr26.66Towards autonomous mouth retraction with precise deformation regularization for oral and maxillofacial surgery (opens in a new tab)
202512 papers
- RA-LA bioinspired approach to bipedal running control: incorporating appendage inertia and lower leg stiffness (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/iros60139. .11246968A spatial position-based visual servoing obstacle-avoidable shape control framework for an 11-DOF hybrid continuum robot (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, doi: 10.1109/tmech. .3589968A vibration-compensated continuum manipulator drill system for orthopaedic surgery (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR), doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-09051-5_15Appending propellers to leg for enhancing robustness of hopping locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, doi: 10.1109/tfuzz. .3527001Decentralized Type-2 fuzzy event-triggered control for nonlinear switched interconnected systems with actuator and sensor faults (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LGenerative 3D state estimation for DLOs from partial observations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, doi: 10.1109/tcns. .3549094Leader-following consensus of multiple rigid body systems by bounded attitude feedback (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LManipulating elasto-plastic objects with 3D occupancy and learning-based predictive control (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LOMEGA: open-source and multi-mode hopping platform for educational and groundwork aims (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Surgical embodied intelligence for generalized task autonomy in laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery (opens in a new tab)
- TMI (T1)VibNet: vibration-boosted needle detection in ultrasound images (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/iros60139. .11245883Vibration-based energy metric for restoring needle alignment in autonomous robotic ultrasound (opens in a new tab)
202413 papers
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/iros58592. .10802259A CT-guided control framework of a robotic flexible endoscope for the diagnosis of the maxillary sinusitis (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, doi: 10.1109/tim. .3406802A minimal set of parameters based depth-dependent distortion model and its calibration method for stereo vision systems (opens in a new tab)
- American Control Conference (ACC), doi: 10.23919/acc60939. .10644967A sliding cone control method for robust robot running (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-63596-0_5Bootstrapping robotic skill learning with intuitive teleoperation: initial feasibility study (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, doi: 10.1109/tmech. .3402445Design, optimization, and experimental validation of a handheld nonconstant-curvature hybrid-structure robotic instrument for maxillary sinus surgery (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LEnhanced aerial reorientation performance using a 3-DoF morphable inertial tail inspired by kangaroo rats (opens in a new tab)
- Integrative and Comparative Biology, doi: 10.1093/icb/icae079From behavior to bio-inspiration: aerial reorientation and multi-plane stability in kangaroo rats, computational models, and robots (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), doi: 10.15607/rss. .xx.039Homotopic path set planning for robot manipulation and navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), doi: 10.1109/icra57147. .10610751Interactive navigation in environments with traversable obstacles using large language and vision-language models (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LLearning-based MPC with safety filter for constrained deformable linear object manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, doi: 10.1109/tim. .3451569Needle segmentation using GAN: restoring thin instrument visibility in robotic ultrasound (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), doi: 10.1109/ssrr62954. .10770024SIGMA: a minimalistic 3D hopping robot with parallel 3-RSR mechanism for safeguarding humanitarian demining (opens in a new tab)
202311 papers
- T-RO (T1)A fast soft robotic laser sweeping system using data-driven modeling approach (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/iros55552. .10342097A shared-control dexterous robotic system for assisting transoral mandibular fracture reduction: development and cadaver study (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LCombining tail and reaction wheel for underactuated spatial reorientation in robot falling with quadratic programming (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Deformable object manipulation with constraints using path set planning and tracking (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, doi: 10.1109/tmech. .3276076Design and experimental validation of a novel hybrid continuum robot with enhanced dexterity and manipulability in confined space (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/iros55552. .10342194End-to-end learning of deep visuomotor policy for needle picking (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Learning-based visual-strain fusion for eye-in-hand continuum robot pose estimation and control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), doi: 10.1109/humanoids57100. .10375173Legged robot running on rough terrains based on norm regulation of spring-loaded inverted pendulum model (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), doi: 10.1109/case56687. .10260538Model-free large-scale cloth spreading with mobile manipulation: initial feasibility study (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), doi: 10.1109/icra48891. .10160835Towards exact interaction force control for underactuated quadrupedal systems with orthogonal projection and quadratic programming (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), doi: 10.1109/icra48891. .10161422Towards safe landing of falling quadruped robots using a 3-DoF morphable inertial tail (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went17 listed
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