Yitong Lu

Postdoctoral Associate, 2025 Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering

Publications


*Co-first authors

A Real-Time, Semi-Autonomous Navigation Platform for Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy


Daniel Van Lewen, Yitong Lu, Frank Juliá-Wise, Armaan Vasowalla, Christopher Wu, Jennifer Yeo, Ehab Billatos, Sheila Russo

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10(5), 2025, pp. 4722 - 4729


Enabling Real-Time Shape Sensing in Soft Robots via a Miniaturized, Single-Signal, Color-Tuned Soft Optical Sensor


Frank Juliá Wise, Yitong Lu, Daniel Van Lewen, Riley Applebaum, Bianca Andrada, Johnathan Reamer, Sheila Russo

Advanced Robotics Research, 2025


Soft Optical Shape-Sensing with Thin-Film Color Tuning for Autonomous Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy Navigation


Frank Julia Wise, Yitong Lu, Sheila Russo

Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2025


Wireless mechanical and hybrid thrombus fragmentation of ex vivo endovascular thrombosis model in the iliac artery


Marcus CJ de Boer, Leendert-Jan W Ligtenberg, Iris Mulder, Constantinos Goulas, Anke Klingner, Roger Lomme, Emily AM Rot, Dorothee Wasserberg, Yitong Lu, Remco Liefers, Joep K van der Mijle Meijer, Gabriëlle JM Tuijthof, Doron Ben Ami, Udi Sadeh, Oded Shoseyov, Julien Leclerc, Aaron T Becker, Pascal Jonkheijm, Michiel Warlé, Islam SM Khalil

Applied Physics Reviews, vol. 12(1), 2025


3D Navigation of a Magnetic Swimmer Using a 2D Ultrasonography Probe Manipulated by a Robotic Arm for Position Feedback


Premal Gorroochurn*, Charles P Hong*, Carter M Klebuc*, Yitong Lu*, Khue Phan, Javier Garcia, Aaron T Becker, Julien Leclerc

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, pp. 8173-8179


Open-Source CFD Simulation of Magnetic Rotating Swimmers with Experimental Validation


Yitong Lu, Jocelyn Ramos, Deeksha Sarda, Dipan J Shah, Aaron T Becker, Julien Leclerc

IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024, pp. 3779-3784


Closed-loop control of magnetic modular cubes for 2D self-assembly


Yitong Lu, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee, Conlan C Taylor, Julien Leclerc, Jason M O'Kane, MinJun Kim, Aaron T Becker

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8(9), 2023, pp. 5998-6005


Coordinated Self-Assembly and Feedback Control of Distributed Magnetic Cuboid Robots


Louis William Rogowski*, Gokhan Kararsiz*, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee*, Yitong Lu*, Zhengguang Wang, Xiao Zhang, Aaron T Becker, Min Jun Kim

Swarm Intelligence, 2023


Insertion, retrieval and performance study of miniature magnetic rotating swimmers for the treatment of thrombi


Yitong Lu, Jocelyn Ramos, Mohamad G Ghosn, Dipan J Shah, Aaron T Becker, Julien Leclerc

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023, pp. 8454-8460


Data-driven control for a milli-scale spiral-type magnetic swimmer using mpc


Haoran Zhao, Yitong Lu, Aaron T Becker, Julien Leclerc

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, pp. 9823-9830


Gathering physical particles with a global magnetic field using reinforcement learning


Matthias Konitzny, Yitong Lu, Julien Leclerc, Sándor P Fekete, Aaron T Becker

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, pp. 10126-10132


High-Torque Miniature Magnetic Rotating Swimmers for 3D Path-Following and Blood Clot Disruption


Jocelyn Ramos, Yitong Lu, Aaron T. Becker, Julien Leclerc

International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), 2022


Magnetically controlled modular cubes with reconfigurable self-assembly and disassembly


Anuruddha Bhattacharjee*, Yitong Lu*, Aaron T Becker, MinJun Kim

IEEE transactions on robotics, vol. 38(3), 2022, pp. 1793-1805


Steering rotating magnetic swimmers in 2.5 dimensions using only 2d ultrasonography for position sensing


Yitong Lu, Haoran Zhao, Aaron T Becker, Julien Leclerc

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7(2), 2022, pp. 3162 - 3169


Enumeration of polyominoes & polycubes composed of magnetic cubes


Yitong Lu, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee, Daniel Biediger, MinJun Kim, Aaron T Becker

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021, pp. 6977-6982


Resonating magnetic manipulation for 3d path-following and blood clot removal using a rotating swimmer


Julien Leclerc, Yitong Lu, Aaron T Becker, Mohamad Ghosn, Dipan J Shah

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020, pp. 3083-3090