Publications

Editorials

  1. Huang X, Sabelhaus AP, Jawed MK, Jin L, Zou J and Chen Y (2022) “Editorial: Materials, design, modeling and control of soft robotic artificial muscles”. Front. Robot. AI 9:1074549. (2022)

Books

  1. Jawed, M. K., Novelia , A., O'Reilly, O., "A Primer on the Kinematics of Discrete Elastic Rods" Springer-Verlag, New York (2018) [available free of charge to students through institutional subscription]

  2. Huang, W., Patterson, Z., Majidi, C., Jawed, M. K., “Chapter: Modeling Soft Swimming Robots using Discrete Elastic Rod Method” in “Bioinspired Sensing, Actuation, and Control in Underwater Soft Robotic Systems” (Editors: D. A. Paley, N. M. Wereley), Springer-Nature, Switzerland (2020)

Journal Articles and Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Tong, D., Choi, A., Qin, L., Huang, W., Joo, J., & Jawed, M. K., “Sim2real neural controllers for physics-based robotic deployment of deformable linear objects” The International Journal of Robotics Research, 43:6, 791-810 (2024)

  2. Hao, Z., Zalavadia, S., & Jawed, M. K., “Bundling and Tumbling in Bacterial-inspired Bi-flagellated Soft Robots for Attitude Adjustment” IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 340-346 (2024)

  3. Choi, A., Tong, D., Terzopoulos, D., Joo, J., & Jawed, M. K., “Learning Neural Force Manifolds for Sim2Real Robotic Symmetrical Paper Folding” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2024)

  4. Choi, A., Jing, R., Sabelhaus, A., & Jawed, M. K., “DisMech: A Discrete Differential Geometry-Based Physical Simulator for Soft Robots and Structures” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

  5. Wang, S., Lim, S., Tasmim, S., Kalairaj, M. S., Rivera‐Tarazona, L. K., Abdelrahman, M. K., & Ware, T. H., “Reconfigurable growth of engineered living materials” Advanced Materials, 2309818 (2024)

  6. Ma, L., Mungekar, M., Roychowdhury, V., & Jawed, M. K., “Rapid design of fully soft deployable structures via kirigami cuts and active learning” Advanced Materials Technologies, 2301305 (2024)

  7. Zavodnik, J., Wang, Y., Yan, W., Brojan, M., & Jawed, M. K., “Soft Kirigami Composites for Form‐Finding of Fully Flexible Deployables” Advanced Materials Technologies, 9:1, 2300909 (2024)

  8. Wang, G., & Khoda, B., “Mechanical Response of Fisherman’s Knots During Tightening” Journal of Applied Mechanics, 91, 031008-1 (2024)

  9. Lim, S., Habchi, C., & Jawed, M. K., “Machine learning assisted resistive force theory for helical structures at low Reynolds number” Journal of Fluids and Structures, 122, 103963 (2023)

  10. Hao, Z., Lim, S., & Jawed, M. K., “Modeling, Characterization, and Control of Bacteria-Inspired Bi-Flagellated Mechanism with Tumbling” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 6608-6615 (2023)

  11. Mungekar, M., Ma, L., Yan, W., Kackar, V., Shokrzadeh, S., & Jawed, M. K., “Design of Bistable Soft Deployable Structures via a Kirigami‐Inspired Planar Fabrication Approach” Advanced Materials Technologies, 8:16, 2300088 (2023)

  12. Li, Q., Wang, T., Roychowdhury, V., & Jawed, M. K., “Metalearning generalizable dynamics from trajectories” Physical Review Letters, 131(6), 067301 (2023)

  13. Bansal, K., Du, Y., Palan, E., Quadir, M., & Khalid Jawed, M., “Robotic painting: mimicking human applicators” Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, 20(4), 1369-1381 (2023)

  14. Choi, A., Tong, D., Park, B., Terzopoulos, D., Joo, J., & Jawed, M. K., “mBEST: Realtime Deformable Linear Object Detection Through Minimal Bending Energy Skeleton Pixel Traversals” 2, 9444 (2023)

  15. Khalil, M. I., Tong, D., Jawed, M. K., & Khoda, B., “Controlling Friction of Rods With Entrained Particles” International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference Vol. 87240, V002T06A022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2023)

  16. Saha, S. S., Du, Y., Sandha, S. S., Garcia, L. A., Jawed, M. K., & Srivastava, M., “Inertial Navigation on Extremely Resource-Constrained Platforms: Methods, Opportunities and Challenges” IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 708-723 (2023)

  17. Zhao, Y., Li, Q., Liu, Z., Alsaid, Y., Shi, P., Khalid Jawed, M., & He, X., “Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics” Science Robotics, 8:77, eadf4753 (2023)

  18. Khalil, M. I., Islam, M. A., Tong, D., Jawed, M. K., & Khoda, B., “Controlling Surface of Rods With Entrained Particle as Asperities” Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing, 11:1 (2023)

  19. Du, Y., Saha, S. S., Sandha, S. S., Lovekin, A., Wu, J., Siddharth, S., & Srivastava, M., “Neural-kalman gnss/ins navigation for precision agriculture” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 9622-9629 (2023)

  20. Panda, S., Lee, Y., Jawed, M. K., “Agronav: Autonomous Navigation Framework for Agricultural Robots and Vehicles using Semantic Segmentation and Semantic Line Detection” IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 6271-6280 (2023)

  21. Lim, S., Yadunandan, A., & Jawed, M. K., “Bacteria-inspired robotic propulsion from bundling of soft helical filaments at low Reynolds number” Soft Matter, 19:12, 2254-2264 (2023)

  22. Tong, D., Choi, A., Joo, J., Borum, A., Jawed, M. K., “Snap Buckling in Overhand Knots” Journal of Applied Mechanics (2022)

  23. Li, Q., Wang, W., Roychowdhury, V., Jawed, M. K., “Rapidly encoding generalizable dynamics in a Euclidean symmetric neural network: a Slinky case study” Extreme Mechanics Letters 101925 (2022)

  24. Tong, D., Choi, A., Joo, J., Jawed, M. K., “A Fully Implicit Method for Robust Frictional Contact Handling in Elastic Rods” Extreme Mechanics Letters 101924 (2022)

  25. Lim, S., Du, Y., Lee, Y., Panda, S.K., Tong, D., Jawed, M.K, “Fabrication, control, and modeling of robots inspired by flagella and cilia” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

  26. Patel, D. K., Huang, X., Luo, Y., Mungekar, M., Jawed, M. K., Yao, L., Majidi, C., “Highly Dynamic Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots” Advanced Materials Technologies (2022)

  27. Khan, M.R.H., Hazra, R.S., Nair, G., Mohammad, J., Jiang, L., Reindl, K., Jawed, M. K., Ganai, S. and Quadir, M., “Cellulose Nanofibers as Scaffold-forming Materials for Thin Film Drug Delivery Systems” International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 627, 122189 (2022)

  28. Khalil, M., Tong, D., Wang, G., Jawed, M. K., and Khoda, B. "Systematic Variation of Friction of Rods." Journal of Applied Mechanics (2022)

  29. Bermudez, A., Gonzalez, Z., Zhao, B., Salter, E., Liu, X., Ma, L., Jawed, M. K., Hsieh, C., Lin, N., “Supracellular Quantification of Spatially Varying Mechanical Heterogeneities in Live Cell Monolayers” Biophysical Journal 121:18, 3358-3369 (2022)

  30. Huang, X., Patterson, Z., Sabelhaus, A., Huang, W., Chin, K., Ren, Z., Jawed, M. K., Majidi, C., “Design and Closed Loop Motion Planning of an Untethered Swimming Soft Robot using 2D Discrete Elastic Rods Simulations” Advanced Intelligent Systems 2200163 (2022)

  31. Du, Y., Lam, J., Sachanandani, K., Jawed, M. K., “Modeling the locomotion of articulated soft robots in granular medium” Robotics and Automation Letters 7:3, 6495 - 6502 (2022)

  32. Choi, A., Jawed, M. K., Joo, J., “Preemptive Motion Planning for Human-to-Robot Indirect Placement Handovers” International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 4743-4749 (2022)

  33. Du, Y., Zhang, G., Tsang, D., Jawed, M. K., “Deep-CNN based Real-Time Robotic Multi-Class Weed Identification” International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2273-2279 (2022)

  34. Habchi, C., Jawed, M. K., “Ballooning in Spiders using Multiple Silk Threads” Physical Review E 105, 034401 (2022)

  35. Tong, D., Borum, A., Jawed, M. K., “Automated Stability Testing of Elastic Rods with Helical Centerlines using a Robotic System” Robotics and Automation Letters and International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 7:2, 1126 - 1133 (2021)

  36. Du, Y., Mallajosyula, B., Sun, D., Chen, J., Zhao, Z., Rahman, M., Quadir, M., Jawed, M. K., “A Low-cost Robot with Autonomous Recharge and Navigation for Weed Control in Fields with Narrow Row Spacing” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2021)

    • Video Abstract: https://youtu.be/UBDXrMeFY8U

    • Finalist for Best Paper Award at IROS 2021 “Robot Mechanisms and Design” and “Agri-Robotics” categories (4 out of 1261 accepted papers were finalists in each category) [LINK]

  37. Huang, X., Huang, W., Patterson, Z., Ren, Z., Jawed, M. K., Majidi, C., “Numerical Simulation of an Untethered Omni-Directional Star-Shaped Swimming Robot” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2021)

  38. Huang, W., Jawed, M. K., “Numerical simulation of bundling of helical elastic rods in a viscous fluid” Computers and Fluids 105038 (2021)

  39. Du, Y., Miller, A., Jawed, M. K., “Simple Flagellated Soft Robot for Locomotion near Air-Fluid Interface” IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 472 - 478 (2021)

  40. Choi, A., Tong, D., Jawed, M. K., Joo, J., “Implicit Contact Model for Discrete Elastic Rods in Knot Tying” Journal of Applied Mechanics 88:5, 051010 (2021)

  41. Forghani, M., Huang, W., Jawed, M. K., “Control of uniflagellar soft robots at low Reynolds number using buckling instability” Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control 143 (6), 061004 (2021)

  42. Du, Y., Deng, Z., Fang, Z., Wang, Y., Nagata, T., Bansal, K., Quadir, M., Jawed, M. K., “Vision and force based autonomous robotic coating with rollers” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 9954 - 9960 (2020)

  43. Huang, W., Wang, Y., Li, X., Jawed, M.K., “Shear induced supercritical pitchfork bifurcation of pre-buckled bands, from narrow strips to wide plates” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 145, 104168 (2020)

  44. Huang, W., Qin, L., Jawed, M. K., “Numerical Method for Direct Solution to Form-finding Problem in Elastic Gridshell” Journal of Applied Mechanics 88 (2), 021012 (2020)

  45. Qin, L., Huang, W., Du, Y., Zheng, L., Jawed, M.K., “Genetic algorithm-based inverse design of elastic gridshells” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 1-17 (2020)

  46. Li, X., Huang, W. and Jawed, M.K., “Discrete Elasto-Plastic Rods” Extreme Mechanics Letters 38, 100767 (2020)

  47. Huang, W., Huang, X., Majidi, C., Jawed, M.K., “Dynamic simulation of articulated soft robots” Nature Communications 11:2233, 1-9 (2020)

  48. Li, X., Huang, W., Jawed, M.K., “A discrete differential geometry-based approach to numerical simulation of Timoshenko beam” Extreme Mechanics Letters 35, 100622 (2020)

  49. Huang, W., Jawed, M.K., “Numerical exploration on buckling instability for directional control in flagellar propulsion” Soft Matter 16:3, 604-613 (2020)

  50. Huang, W. and Jawed, M.K., 2019. “Newmark-beta method in discrete elastic rods algorithm to avoid energy dissipation” Journal of Applied Mechanics 86:8, 084501 (2020)

    [Preprints and Under Review] 

  51. Du, Y., Miller, A., Jawed, M. K., “Mechanics-based Analysis on Flagellated Robots” (2021) Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13927


    [Publications prior to joining UCLA]

  52. Huang, X., Kumar, K., Jawed, M.K., Mohammadi Nasab, A., Ye, Z., Shan, W., Majidi, C., “Highly dynamic shape memory alloy actuator for fast moving soft robots” Advanced Materials Technologies 4:4, 1800540 (2019)

  53. Huang, X., Kumar, K., Jawed, M.K., Ye, Z., Majidi, C., “Soft Electrically Actuated Quadruped (SEAQ) - Integrating a Flex Circuit Board and Elastomeric Limbs for Versatile Mobility” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4:3, 2415-2422 (2019)

  54. Huang, X., Kumar, K., Jawed, M.K., Nasab, A.M., Ye, Z., Shan, W., Majidi, C., “Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators” Science Robotics 3:25, eaau7557 (2018)

  55. Jawed, M. K., Hadjiconstantinou, N., Parks, D., Reis, P., "Patterns of carbon nanotubes by flow directed deposition on substrates with architectured topographies" Nano Letters 18:3, 1660-1667 (2018)

  56. Bell, M., Pestovski, I., Scott, W., Kumar, K., Jawed, M. K., Paley, D., Majidi, C., Weaver, J., Wood, R., "Echinoderm-inspired tube feet for robust locomotion and adhesion" IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3:3, 2222-2228 (2018)

  57. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Dynamics of a flexible helical filament rotating in a viscous fluid near a rigid boundary” Physical Review Fluids 2:3, 034101 (2017)

  58. Baek, C., Sageman-Furnas, A., Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Form-finding in elastic gridshells” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:1, 75-80 (2018)

  59. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Deformation of a soft helical filament in an axial flow at low Reynolds number” Soft Matter 12, 1898-1905 (2016)

  60. Jawed, M. K., Khouri, N., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Propulsion and instability of flexible helical rod rotating in viscous fluid” Physical Review Letters 115:16, 168101 (2015)

  61. Jawed, M. K., Dieleman, P., Audoly, B., Reis, P., “Untangling the mechanics and topology in the frictional response of long overhand elastic knots” Physical Review Letters 115:11, 118302 (2015)

  62. Jawed, M. K., Brun, P. T., Reis, P., “A geometric model for the coiling of an elastic rod deployed onto a moving substrate” Journal of Applied Mechanics 82:12, 121007 (2015)

  63. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Pattern morphology in the elastic sewing machine” Extreme Mechanics Letters 1, 76-82 (2014)

    • Inaugural issue of Extreme Mechanics Letters

  64. Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Jungseock, J., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Coiling of elastic rods on rigid substrates” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:41, 14663-14668 (2014)

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