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Reinforcement learning for freeform robot design
Muhan Li, David Matthews, Sam Kriegman
Inspired by the necessity of morphological adaptation in animals, a growing body of work has attempted to expand robot training to encompass physical aspects of a robot's design. H…
Efficient automatic design of robots
David Matthews, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus +2
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior. Despite this, almost ever…
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field
D. Blackiston, S. Kriegman, J. Bongard +1
Advances in science and engineering often reveal the limitations of classical approaches initially used to understand, predict, and control phenomena. With progress, conceptual cat…
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Douglas Blackiston +4
Robots deployed at orders of magnitude different size scales, and that retain the same desired behavior at any of those scales, would greatly expand the environments in which the r…
A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change
Dylan S. Shah, Joshua P. Powers, Liana G. Tilton +3
Many organisms, including various species of spiders and caterpillars, change their shape to switch gaits and adapt to different environments. Recent technological advances, rangin…
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan Shah +5
The manual design of soft robots and their controllers is notoriously challenging, but it could be augmented---or, in some cases, entirely replaced---by automated design tools. Mac…
Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots
Sam Kriegman, Stephanie Walker, Dylan Shah +3
A robot's mechanical parts routinely wear out from normal functioning and can be lost to injury. For autonomous robots operating in isolated or hostile environments, repair from a…