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Rollbot 2: Agile Locomotion by a Single-Actuator Spherical Robot
Jingxian Wang*, Chen Yu*, Sam Kriegman +1
Reducing actuator count simplifies robot hardware but also removes independent inputs for maneuvering. The original Rollbot steered by modulating a quasi-stable helical orbit, but…
Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric
Jingxian Wang, Chen Yu, David Matthews +3
We introduce Phantom Twist, a type of single-propeller UAV designed to achieve low visibility through high-speed spinning and the exploitation of motion blur. We develop a two-stag…
Agile legged locomotion in reconfigurable modular robots
Chen Yu, David Matthews, Jingxian Wang +4
Legged machines are becoming increasingly agile and adaptive but they have so far lacked the morphological diversity of legged animals, which have been rearranged and reshaped to f…
A Single Motor Nano Aerial Vehicle with Novel Peer-to-Peer Communication and Sensing Mechanism
Jingxian Wang, Andrew G. Curtis, Mark Yim +1
Communication and position sensing are among the most important capabilities for swarm robots to interact with their peers and perform tasks collaboratively. However, the hardware…
PCBot: a Minimalist Robot Designed for Swarm Applications
Jingxian Wang, Michael Rubenstein
Complexity, cost, and power requirements for the actuation of individual robots can play a large factor in limiting the size of robotic swarms. Here we present PCBot, a minimalist…
Rollbot: a Spherical Robot Driven by a Single Actuator
Jingxian Wang, Michael Rubenstein
Spherical robots typically require at least two actuators to achieve controlled 2D planar motion. Here we present Rollbot, the first spherical robot capable of controllably maneuve…
Distributed Localization without Direct Communication Inspired by Statistical Mechanics
Jingxian Wang, Tianye Wang, Wei Wang +2
Distributed localization is essential in many robotic collective tasks such as shape formation and self-assembly.Inspired by the statistical mechanics of energy transition, this pa…