Flexible surgical devices, especially Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) systems, for gastrointestinal cancer treatments
Soft robotics including stretchable sensors and actuators for haptic/tactile displays and their applications to other robotic systems
Soft assistive device for heart failure and soft artificial organs
Soft Wearable Haptic Devices
Functional materials for soft electronics and biomedical applications
Variable stiffness structures for flexible endoscopic systems, soft robotics and other biomedical applications
Miniature soft magnetic robots for drug delivery systems
Soft magnetic capsule endoscopy for obesity treatments and gastrointestinal diagnosis
Soft pneumatic/hydraulic actuators
Soft programmable planar fabric actuators
Advanced wearable systems for haptic/tactile displays and NOTES systems
Advanced mechatronic systems for the treatment of tracheal diseases and other respiratory disorders
Nonlinear backlash/hysteresis modeling and identification methods
Advanced control algorithms (feedforward and nonlinear adaptive control) for flexible medical systems and smart materials and structures
