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Acknowledgment
This research was supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China, under grants U2013208 and 62022014.
Qing Shi is the corresponding author.
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Yulai Zhang, School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute
of Technology, Beijing, China, and Key Laboratory of Biomimetic
Robots and Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology,
Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100081, China.
Email: 3220215236@bit.edu.cn.
Shurui Yan, Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical
Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing,
100081, China, and Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing
Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, 314003, China. Email:
3120190170@bit.edu.cn.
Zihou Wei, Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical
Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing,
100081, China. Email: 3120185114@bit.edu.cn.
Xuechao Chen, Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical
Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing,
100081, China. Email: chenxuechao@bit.edu.cn.
Toshio Fukuda, Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical
Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing,
100081, China. Email: tofukuda@meijo-u.ac.jp.
Qing Shi, Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical
Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing,
100081, China, and Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing
Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, 314003, China. Email:
shiqing@bit.edu.cn.
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