Lab News - 2025​​​

1. Jun. 16, AMNR Lab has two papers accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025). 

2. Jun. 4, Jiaqi's paper, "MEMS Amplitude-Gradient Acoustic Transducer (AGAT) for Controllable Particle
   Transportation",  was accepted for Poster presentation at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2025), to be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, Spt. 15-18, 2025.

3. Jun. 3, Prof. Song Liu gave an invited talk in Acoustic Robotics in Chinese University of Hong Kong.

4. Apr. 24, An Siyuan and Liu Qing passed the Master degree thesis defense, officially graduated from the AMNR Lab as master students. Congrats!

5. ​Apr. 22, AMNR Lab's paper of "In-plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope" was selected by the ICRA 2025 award committee as Best Conference Paper Award finalist, and Best Paper Award in Automation finalist.

6. 4月16日，AMNR Lab 2022届硕士研究生刘晴获评“上海市优秀毕业生”。

7. Mar. 28, AMNR Lab's latest research was online published by Nature Physics. In this work, we solved the challenge of manipulating liquid droplets on superhydrophilic surfaces. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02844-6#Abs1 .

8. Feb. 22, Qingyi's paper, "Reconfigurable Phase-Only Acoustic Holography with Surrogate Model Based on Soft-GAN"​ was accepted by Applied Acoustics. 

9. Feb. 19, Qing Liu's paper, "Low-Cost Acoustic Field Reconstruction with Physics-Incorporated Deep Learning for Binary Amplitude-Only Hologram" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. This paper proposed the concept of BAOH.

10. Jan. 28, Chengxi's paper, "Accurate and Real-Time Acoustic Holography Using Super-Resolution and Physics Combined Deep Learning" was accpeted by  Applied Physics Letters. 

11. Jan. 28, Congrats to Jieyun and Prof. Su. AMNR Lab has two paper accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).  From "In-plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope", AMNR Lab is openning up a new research direction towards acoustic fibrebot. 

12. Jan. 18, Qingyi's paper ''Physics-based Generative Adversarial Netwrok for Real-time Acoustic Holography" was accepted by Ultrasonics. Ultrasonics is a very reputational and very traditional journal in the field of acoustics and ultrasounics.

13. Jan. 9, Yujie's paper "Synchronous Rotation-based Knot Tying on Mini-Incisions Using Dual-Arm Nanorobot" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. This is the third paper published in IEEE T-BME from the AMNR Lab.

14. 一月六日，佳讯！微纳机器人实验室 在读博士研究生 钟承希同学 获得“中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项”资助，资助期两年。Jan. 6, Cheng xi has been awarded funding from the "China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talents Support Project for Doctoral Students." The funding period is two years.

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      Lab News - 2024​​

1. Nov. 27, Mingyue and Siyuan's paper "Selective, Robust and Precision Manipulation of Particles in Complex Enviorenments with Ultrasonic Phased Transducer Array and Microscope" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 

2. Oct. 9, Qingyi Lu won the "National Scholarship for Outstanding Master Students" for her excellent research works in acoustic holography.

3. Sep. 20, Qingyi's paper "Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Acoustic Holography for Phased Transducer Array" was accepted by Journal of Applied Phyisics. This paper formalized and physically validated the concept of super resolution acoustic holography.

4. Aug. 23, Prof. Su's paper "A Review of Deep-learning-based Super-Resolution: from Methods to Applications", was accepted by Pattern Recognition, one of the top journals in the field of artificial intelligence.

5. Aug. 17, Our paper "Nanorobot-based Direct Implantation of Flexible Neural Electrode for BCI" was selected a *Featured article* and *Front cover* of the Octorber issue of  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2024.

6. Jul. 16, Mingyue's paper "3D Noncontact Micro-Particle Manipulation with Acoustic Robot End-Effector under Microscope", was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

7. Jun. 30, AMNR Lab has three papers accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). The three accepted papers are about particle cluster manipulation, binary amplitude acoustic holography, and 3D reconstruction inside SEM.

8. Jun. 12, Jiaqi's paper "Obstacle-crossing Self Focused Acoustic Transducer based on Bessel Beams", was accpeted by IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, (IEEE UFFC-JS 2024) in topic of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2024).

9. May 26, Mingyue's paper "Vision-based Closed-loop Control with Spatiotemporal Multiplexing Strategy for Noncontact Trapping of Multiple Micro-particles" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

10. May 23, congrats to Mingyue Wang, Xiang Fu and Zhenhuan Sun for being phd students in AMNR Lab. The lab right now has 7 phd students.

11. May 20, Dr. Teng Li and Yujie's paper "Nanorobot-based Direct Implantation of Flexible Neural Electrode for BCI" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
    AMNR Lab is now turning to apply advanced micro-nanorobotics towards life science. Bio-electrical interface is one of the main research topics in the coming years. We have layed solid technical foundations in this regard.

12. Feb. 20, Prof. Su's paper "Attention-based Multi-scale Feature Fusion for Efficient Surface Defect Detection" was accepted by IEEE Tranasctions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

13. Jan. 29, Yujie's paper "Automated Surgical Knot Tying on Mini-Incision with Micro-Suture based on Dual-Arm Nanorobot under Stereo Microscope" was accpeted by International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024).

14. Jan. 15, Fu Xiang and Sun Zhenhuan were awarded Merit Graduate Student and Outstanding Graduate Student of ShanghaiTech.

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   Lab News 2023​

1. Dec. 16, Chengxi and Qingyi's paper, "Real-time Acoustic Holography with Physics-Reinforced Contrastive Learning for Acoustic Field Reconstruction" was accepated by Journal of Applied Physics.

2. Dec. 3, Yuyu Jia's paper "Selective Acoustic Trapping, Translating, Rotating and Orienting of Organism from Heterogeneous Mixture" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

3. Oct. 17. Chengxi Zhong won the "National Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students" for her excellent research works in acoustic holography.

4. Aug. 29. Fu Xiang's paper "Visual Tracking with Motion Distortion Removal for Nanomanipulation inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

5. Aug. 25. Research in AMNR Lab got funding support from National Natural Science Foundation of China Starting from 2024 to 2026.

6. July 4. Chengxi's paper "Real-time Acoustic Holography with Physics-based Deep Learning for Robotic Manipulation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

7. Jun. 22. Qingqi and Chengxi's paper "Ultrafast Acoustic Holography with Physics-Reinforced Self-Supervised Learning for Precise Robotic Manipulation" was accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023).

8. Jun. 5. Yuting Yang's paper "Zooming-Free Hand-Eye Self-Calibration for Nanorobotic Manipulation inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. 

9. May 24. AMNR Lab has four papers got accepted by International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS2023)! IUS is the top conference in the field of ultrasonics, to be held in Montreal, Canada, this year. 

10. May 19. Dr. Teng Li 's paper "Visual Servo Control for Workspace Navigation of Nanorobot End-effector inside SEM" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 

11. May 12. Qingyi Lu was awarded outstanding undergraduate thesis in her bachelor degree defense.  Qingyi is joining AMNR Lab in coming September as graduate student.

12. The PI was awarded as Outstanding Faculty By ShanghaiTech and SIST 2022.

13. AMNR Lab has two papers accepted by ICRA 2023 @ London Excel!.

14. Our Graduate student Chengxi Zhong becomes a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging!