3 papers
cs.RO2024
Field Insights for Portable Vine Robots in Urban Search and Rescue
Ciera McFarland, Ankush Dhawan, Riya Kumari +3
Soft, growing vine robots are well-suited for exploring cluttered, unknown environments, and are theorized to be performant during structural collapse incidents caused by earthquak…
cs.RO2023
Haptic Guidance and Haptic Error Amplification in a Virtual Surgical Robotic Training Environment
Yousi A. Oquendo, Margaret M. Coad, Sherry M. Wren +5
Teleoperated robotic systems have introduced more intuitive control for minimally invasive surgery, but the optimal method for training remains unknown. Recent motor learning studi…
cs.RO2023
Soft Air Pocket Force Sensors for Large Scale Flexible Robots
Michael R. Mitchell, Ciera McFarland, Margaret M. Coad
Flexible robots have advantages over rigid robots in their ability to conform physically to their environment and to form a wide variety of shapes. Sensing the force applied by or…