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7 papers
Digital twins for the design, interactive control, and deployment of modular, fiber-reinforced soft continuum arms
Seung Hyun Kim, Jiamiao Guo, Arman Tekinalp +9
Soft continuum arms (SCAs) promise versatile manipulation through mechanical compliance, for assistive devices, agriculture, search applications, or surgery. However, the strong no…
Neural reservoir control of a soft bio-hybrid arm
Noel Naughton, Arman Tekinalp, Keshav Shivam +3
A long-standing engineering problem, the control of soft robots is difficult because of their highly non-linear, heterogeneous, anisotropic, and distributed nature. Here, bridging…
Soft, slender and active structures in fluids: embedding Cosserat rods in vortex methods
Arman Tekinalp, Yashraj Bhosale, Songyuan Cui +2
We present a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian method for the direct simulation of three-dimensional, heterogeneous structures made of soft fibers and immersed in incompressible viscous f…
Topology, dynamics, and control of an octopus-analog muscular hydrostat
Arman Tekinalp, Noel Naughton, Seung-Hyun Kim +5
Muscular hydrostats, such as octopus arms or elephant trunks, lack bones entirely, endowing them with exceptional dexterity and reconfigurability. Key to their unmatched ability to…
Controlling a CyberOctopus Soft Arm with Muscle-like Actuation
Heng-Sheng Chang, Udit Halder, Ekaterina Gribkova +4
This paper presents an application of the energy shaping methodology to control a flexible, elastic Cosserat rod model of a single octopus arm. The novel contributions of this work…
Elastica: A compliant mechanics environment for soft robotic control
Noel Naughton, Jiarui Sun, Arman Tekinalp +2
Soft robots are notoriously hard to control. This is partly due to the scarcity of models able to capture their complex continuum mechanics, resulting in a lack of control methodol…
Energy Shaping Control of a CyberOctopus Soft Arm
Heng-Sheng Chang, Udit Halder, Chia-Hsien Shih +7
This paper entails application of the energy shaping methodology to control a flexible, elastic Cosserat rod model. Recent interest in such continuum models stems from applications…