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Development and Testing of a Vine Robot for Urban Search and Rescue in Confined Rubble Environments
Zheyu Zhou, Yaqing Wang, Elliot W. Hawkes +1
The request for fast response and safe operation after natural and man-made disasters in urban environments has spurred the development of robotic systems designed to assist in sea…
Thermodynamically-informed Air-based Soft Heat Engine Design
Charles Xiao, Luke F. Gockowski, Bolin Liao +2
Soft heat engines are poised to play a vital role in future soft robots due to their easy integration into soft structures and low-voltage power requirements. Recent works have dem…
Acoustic Communication and Sensing for Inflatable Modular Soft Robots
D. S. Drew, M. Devlin, E. Hawkes +1
Modular soft robots combine the strengths of two traditionally separate areas of robotics. As modular robots, they can show robustness to individual failure and reconfigurability;…
Modeling, Reduction, and Control of a Helically Actuated Inertial Soft Robotic Arm via the Koopman Operator
David A. Haggerty, Michael J. Banks, Patrick C. Curtis +2
Soft robots promise improved safety and capability over rigid robots when deployed in complex, delicate, and dynamic environments. However, the infinite degrees of freedom and high…
A Multimodal, Enveloping Soft Gripper: Shape Conformation, Bioinspired Adhesion, and Expansion-Driven Suction
Yufei Hao, Shantonu Biswas, Elliot Hawkes +4
A key challenge in robotics is to create efficient methods for grasping objects with diverse shapes, sizes, poses, and properties. Grasping with hand-like end effectors often requi…
Retraction of Soft Growing Robots without Buckling
Margaret M. Coad, Rachel P. Thomasson, Laura H. Blumenschein +3
Tip-extending soft robots that "grow" via pneumatic eversion of their body material have demonstrated applications in exploration of cluttered environments. During growth, the moti…