4 papers
Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway & Crush: AUVs for RoboSub 2026
Patrick Zheng, Saagar Arya, Hung Le +16
The Duke Robotics Club presents Oogway and Crush, our AUVs for RoboSub 2026. This year's strategy expands on our previously narrowed scope, targeting all four of RoboSub's design g…
Tendon-Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER)
Kent K. Yamamoto, Tanner J. Zachem, Pejman Kheradmand +6
Endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) have become more prevalent for minimally invasive skull base and sinus surgeries. However, rigid scopes and tools significantly decrease the s…
SNAP: Stopping Catastrophic Forgetting in Hebbian Learning with Sigmoidal Neuronal Adaptive Plasticity
Tianyi Xu, Patrick Zheng, Shiyan Liu +2
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where the learning of new tasks causes the catastrophic forgetting of old tasks. Existing Machine Learning (M…
Technical Design Review of Duke Robotics Club's Oogway: An AUV for RoboSub 2024
Will Denton, Michael Bryant, Lilly Chiavetta +20
The Duke Robotics Club is proud to present our robot for the 2024 RoboSub Competition: Oogway. Now in its second year, Oogway has been dramatically upgraded in both its capabilitie…