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Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle via Bistable Mechanism
Xuan Li, Jessica McWilliams, Minchen Li +2
Unmanned aerial vehicles have been demonstrated successfully in a variety of tasks, including surveying and sampling tasks over large areas. These vehicles can take many forms. Qua…
A Tunably Compliant Origami Mechanism for Dynamically Dexterous Robots
Wei-Hsi Chen, Shivangi Misra, Yuchong Gao +4
We present an approach to overcoming challenges in dynamical dexterity for robots through tunable origami structures. Our work leverages a one-parameter family of flat sheet crease…
Optimal Structure Synthesis for Environment Augmenting Robots
Tarik Tosun, Cynthia Sung, Colin McCloskey +1
Building structures can allow a robot to surmount large obstacles, expanding the set of areas it can reach. This paper presents a planning algorithm to automatically determine what…
Functional Co-Optimization of Articulated Robots
Andrew Spielberg, Brandon Araki, Cynthia Sung +2
We present parametric trajectory optimization, a method for simultaneously computing physical parameters, actuation requirements, and robot motions for more efficient robot designs…