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Huai-Ti Lin
Former Lab Member
Academic Background
Ph.D, Biology, 2010
Biographical sketch
Huai-Ti Lin successfully defended his Ph.D
thesis in January 2011at Tufts Department of
Biology. His doctoral research focused on
the biomechanics and behavioral adaptation
in soft-bodied animal locomotion.
Specifically, he devised a system to measure
the ground reaction forces from a crawling
caterpillar and revealed, for the first
time, that soft-bodied animals use the
substrate as their external skeleton for
force transmission. As part of his research
in neuromechanics of soft-bodied locomotion,
Huai-Ti also studied non-linear behaviors of
soft materials and worked in the Mechanics
of Soft Materials Laboratory. To investigate
how to embed adaptive behaviors as part of
the soft material mechanics, he was also
involved with the development of soft robots
at Tufts Biomimetic Devices Laboratory in
collaboration with Tufts Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical
Engineering. Beside many soft
crawling-inching robots he created, Huai-Ti
also implemented a ballistic rolling robot
to mimics an escape behavior in
caterpillars. This dynamic morphing behavior
allows over 0.5m/s speed for this
caterpillar soft robot, making yet another
record for soft robots of this class.
Huai-Ti has moved on to animal flight
research and UAV robotics for his
post-doctoral training. Flight has always
been his passion. However, his interest in
soft-bodied animal locomotion and soft
robotics technology still remain. Someday he
might come back to them as opportunities
present themselves. For now, he will take
flight.
Publications
- Lin HT, Dorfmann,
AL and Trimmer, BA.
Soft Cuticle Biomechanics: A
Constitutive Model of
Anisotropy for Caterpillar
Integument, J. Theor.
Biol. 256:
447�457, (2009)
- Lin HT and
Trimmer BA.
Substrate as a Skeleton:
Ground Reaction Forces from
a Soft-bodied Legged Animal.
J. Expt. Biol.
213: 1133-1142,
(2010)
- Lin HT and
Trimmer BA.
Caterpillars Use the
Substrate as their External
Skeleton: a Behavior
Confirmation.
J.Communicative &
Integrative Biol.
3(5): 71-74, (2010)
- Lin HT, Slate
DJ, Paetsch CR, Dorfmann AL
and Trimmer BA.
Scaling of Caterpillar Body
Properties and its
Biomechanical Implications
on the Use of a Hydrostatic
Skeleton. J. Expt. Biol.
214: 1194-204,
(2011).
- Lin HT, Leisk GG
and Trimmer BA.
GoQBot: a
Caterpillar-inspired
Soft-bodied Rolling Robot.
Bioinspir. Biomim.
6(2) (2011)
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