Publications

Patents
  • Hong Yee Low, Ujjaval Gupta, Jun Liang Lau, Gim Song Soh, Pei Zhi Chia, and Alvee Ahmed. (2022). “Textile Configured for Strain Sensing, Method of Manufacturing a Textile for Strain Sensing and a Knitting Apparatus thereof”, Feb 2022, SUTD, PCT Application number PCT/SG2022/050092. (Patent pending)
Journal Articles
  • Trevor Binedell*, Ujjaval Gupta*, Bhuvaneswari Sithanathan, Subburaj Karupppasamy, and Lucienne Blessing. (2023). “Mapping lines of non-extension in persons with lower limb amputation to aid comfort-driven prosthetic socket design.” Medical Engineering & Physics, 104018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2023.104018
  • Ying Yi Tan, Yu Han Quek, Pei Zhi Chia, and Ujjaval Gupta. (2023). “Geometric control of thermoformable knitted textiles using raster images.” Smart Materials and Structures 32, no. 7, 075001.
  • Ujjaval Gupta, Junliang Lau, Pei Zhi Chia, Yingyi Tan, Alvee Ahmed, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Gim Song Soh, and Hong Yee Low. (2023). “All Knitted and Integrated Soft Wearable of High Stretchability and Sensitivity for Continuous Monitoring of Human Joint Motion.” Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2202987. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202202987
       -> Featured on several prominent media outlets including Forbes, Science Daily, EurekAlert!, Asia Research News, Medgadget.
       -> Selected as Frontispiece of the journal issue.
  • Wang, Yuzhe, Pengcheng Li, Ujjaval Gupta, Jianyong Ouyang, and Jian Zhu. (2022). “Tunable soft lens of large focal length change.” Soft Robotics, 9(4), 705-712.
       -> Featured in the commentary section of IMPact@SUTD.
  • Leon Yeong Wei Loh*, Ujjaval Gupta*, Yingxi Wang, Choon Chiang Foo, Jian Zhu, and Wen Feng Lu. (2021). “3D printed metamaterial capacitive sensing array for universal jamming gripper and human joint wearables.” Advanced Engineering Materials 23, no. 5 (2021): 2001082.
       -> Featured on the Back Cover of the journal issue.
  • Zezhou Li, Lei Qin, Dongsheng Zhang, Aifen Tian, Henry YK Lau^, and Ujjaval Gupta^. (2020). “Modeling and feedforward control of a soft viscoelastic actuator with inhomogeneous deformation.” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 40, 100881.
  • Yingxi Wang, Leon Yeong Wei Loh, Ujjaval Gupta, Choon Chiang Foo, and Jian Zhu. (2020). “Bio-inspired soft swim bladders of large volume change using dual dielectric elastomer membranes.” Journal of Applied Mechanics, 87, no. 4.
  • Ujjaval Gupta, Lei Qin, Yuzhe Wang, Hareesh Godaba, and Jian Zhu. (2019). “Soft robots based on dielectric elastomer actuators: a review.” Smart Materials and Structures, 28, no. 10, 103002.
       -> Extremely highly cited with Field Citation Ratio of 23.5 calculated by Altmetric Dimensions (citations > 100).
  •  Hareesh Godaba, Zhi-Qian Zhang, Ujjaval Gupta, Choon Chiang Foo, and Jian Zhu. (2019). “Instabilities in dielectric elastomers: buckling, wrinkling, and crumpling.” Soft Matter, 15, no. 36, 7137-7144.
       -> Featured on the Inside Front Cover of the journal issue.
  • Pengcheng Li*, Yuzhe Wang*, Ujjaval Gupta*, Liu Jun, Zhang Lei, Du Donghe, Choon Chiang Foo, Jianyong Ouyang, and Jian Zhu. (2019). “Transparent Soft Robots for Effective Camouflage.”, Advanced Functional Materials, 1901908.
  • Ujjaval Gupta*, Yuzhe Wang*, Hongliang Ren, and Jian Zhu. (2018). “Dynamic Modelling and Feedforward Control of Jaw Movements Driven by Viscoelastic Artificial Muscles.”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 24(1), 25-35.
  • Yuzhe Wang, Ujjaval Gupta, and Jian Zhu. (2018). “A soft gripper of fast speed and low energy consumption.”, Science China Technological Sciences, 62 (1), 31-38.
  • Qin Lei, Yucheng Tang, Ujjaval Gupta, and Jian Zhu. (2017). “A soft mobile robot capable of obstacle detection and avoidance using self-sensing method.”, Smart Materials and Structures 27(4).
  • Guo-Ying Gu *, Ujjaval Gupta*, Jian Zhu, Li-Min Zhu, and Xiangyang Zhu. (2017). “Modeling of Viscoelastic Electromechanical Behavior in a Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuator.”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics 33(5), 1263-1271.
       -> Cited more than 100 times.
  • Hareesh Godaba, Zhi-Qian Zhang, Ujjaval Gupta, Choon Chiang Foo, and Jian Zhu. (2017). “Dynamic pattern of wrinkles in a dielectric elastomer.”, Soft Matter, 12(16), 2942-2951.
  • Guo-Ying Gu, Ujjaval Gupta, Jian Zhu, Li-Min Zhu, and Xiangyang Zhu. (2015). “Feedforward deformation control of a dielectric elastomer actuator based on a nonlinear dynamic model.”, Applied Physics Letters, 107(4), 042907.
  • Ujjaval Gupta, Hareesh Godaba, Zijie Zhao, Chee Kong Chui, and Jian Zhu. (2015). “Tunable force/displacement of a vibration shaker driven by a dielectric elastomer actuator.”, Extreme Mechanics Letters 2, 72-77.
Conference Proceedings
  • Jun Liang Lau, Ujjaval Gupta, Pei Zhi Chia, Ying Yi Tan, Gim Song Soh, and Hong Yee Low. “Design and Performance Evaluation of a Fully Integrated Knitted Knee Brace for Knee Motion Sensing.” (Accepted) In 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), IEEE, 2023.
  • Hong Yee Low, Ujjaval Gupta, Pei Zhi Chia, Ying Yi Tan, Jun Liang Lau, and Gim Song Soh. “Effects of Super-Elastic Dielectric Yarn in Multi-Yarn Knits for a Highly Stretchable Strain Sensor, Resistor and Interconnect in a Single Knit.” In 2022 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit.
  • Pei Zhi Chia, Ujjaval Gupta, Ying Yi Tan, Jun Liang Lau, Alvee Ahmed, Gim Song Soh, and Hong Yee Low. “Effect of Stitch Pattern on the Electrical Properties of Wale-wise Knitted Strain Sensors and Interconnects.” In 2021 IEEE Sensors, pp. 1-4. IEEE.
  • Ujjaval Gupta#, Jun Liang Lau, Alvee Ahmed, Pei Zhi Chia, Gim Song Soh, and Hong Yee Low. “Soft Wearable Knee Brace with Embedded Sensors for Knee Motion Monitoring.” In 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 7348-7351. IEEE, 2021.
  • Yuzhe Wang, Ujjaval Gupta, Jian Zhu, Pengcheng Li, Donghe Du, Lei Zhang, Jianyong Ouyang, Jun Liu, and Choon Chiang Foo. (2019). “Bio-inspired Soft Robot Driven by Transparent Artificial Muscle.” In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1959-1964. IEEE, 2019.
       -> Featured by prominent media outlet TechXplore.
  • Jiawei Cao, Wenyu Liang, Qingyuan Ren, Ujjaval Gupta, Feifei Chen, and Jian Zhu. (2018). “Modelling and Control of a Novel Soft Crawling Robot based on a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator.” In 2018 Proc. of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, May 21-May 25, 2018.
  • Ujjaval Gupta#, Guo-Ying Gu, and Jian Zhu. (2016). “Modeling and control of a dielectric elastomer actuator.” In 2016 Proc. of SPIE, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XVIII, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, March 21-March 24, 2016.
  • Hareesh Godaba, Ujjaval Gupta, and Jian Zhu. (2016). “Voltage-induced buckling and wrinkling in a dielectric elastomer.” In 2016 Proceedings of the 24th ICTAM, Montreal, Canada, August 21-August 26, 2016.
  • Ujjaval Gupta, Hareesh Godaba, and Jian Zhu. (2014). “Dynamic Analysis of a Vibration Shaker Based on a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator.” In 2014 Proceedings of the 25th CANCAM, London, Ontario, Canada, May 31-June 4, 2014.

                    * – co-first author/ ^– co-corresponding author, #– as presenter

Technology Disclosures
  • Hong Yee Low, Ujjaval Gupta, Jun Liang Lau, Gim Song Soh, Pei Zhi Chia, and Alvee Ahmed. (2021). “Knitted wearables with embedded sensors of tunable sensitivity”, Feb 2021, SUTD, Application number 10202101960Y.
  • Hong Yee Low, Ujjaval Gupta, Pei Zhi Chia, Gim Song Soh, Jun Liang Lau, and Alvee Ahmed. (2021). “Seamlessly integrated stretchable circuits in all knitted soft wearables”, October 2021, SUTD, Application number 10202111004S.

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