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Quadrature Oscillation System for Coordinated Motion in Crawling Origami Robot
Sean Liu, Ankur Mehta, Wenzhong Yan
Origami-inspired robots offer rapid, accessible design and manufacture with diverse functionalities. In particular, origami robots without conventional electronics have the unique…
Surrogate compliance modeling enables reinforcement learned locomotion gaits for soft robots
Jue Wang, Mingsong Jiang, Luis A. Ramirez +5
Adaptive morphogenetic robots adapt their morphology and control policies to meet changing tasks and environmental conditions. Many such systems leverage soft components, which ena…
Self-Deployable, Adaptive Soft Robots Based on Contracting-Cord Particle Jamming
Wenzhong Yan, Brian Ye, Mingxi Li +2
We developed a new class of soft locomotive robots that can self-assemble into a preprogrammed configuration and vary their stiffness afterward in a highly integrated, compact body…
Self-deployable contracting-cord metamaterials with tunable mechanical properties
Wenzhong Yan, Talmage Jones, Christopher L. Jawetz +3
Recent advances in active materials and fabrication techniques have enabled the production of cyclically self-deployable metamaterials with an expanded functionality space. However…
Augmenting Pathologists with NaviPath: Design and Evaluation of a Human-AI Collaborative Navigation System
Hongyan Gu, Chunxu Yang, Mohammad Haeri +7
Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings advancements to support pathologists in navigating high-resolution tumor images to search for pathology patterns of interest. However, existing…
Design of Bistable Soft Deployable Structures via a Kirigami-inspired Planar Fabrication Approach
Mrunmayi Mungekar, Leixin Ma, Wenzhong Yan +3
Fully soft bistable mechanisms have shown extensive applications ranging from soft robotics, wearable devices, and medical tools, to energy harvesting. However, the lack of design…
Soft kirigami composites for form-finding of fully flexible deployables
Jan Zavodnik, Yunbo Wang, Wenzhong Yan +2
We introduce a new class of thin flexible structures that morph from a flat shape into prescribed 3D shapes without an external stimulus such as mechanical loads or heat. To achiev…
A crawling robot driven by a folded self-sustained oscillator
Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta
Locomotive robots that do not rely on electronics and/or electromagnetic components will open up new perspectives and applications for robotics. However, these robots usually invol…
A cut-and-fold self-sustained compliant oscillator for autonomous actuation of origami-inspired robots
Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta
Origami-inspired robots are of particular interest given their potential for rapid and accessible design and fabrication of elegant designs and complex functionalities through cutt…
Fabrication-aware Design for Furniture with Planar Pieces
Wenzhong Yan, Dawei Zhao, Ankur Mehta
We propose a computational design tool to enable casual end-users to easily design, fabricate, and assemble flat-pack furniture with guaranteed manufacturability. Using our system,…
A Computational Design and Evaluation Tool for 3D Structures with Planar Surfaces
Chang Liu, Wenzhong Yan, Pehuen Moure +2
Three dimensional (3D) structures composed of planar surfaces can be build out of accessible materials using easier fabrication technique with shorter fabrication time. To better d…
Computational Design and Fabrication of Corrugated Mechanisms from Behavioral Specifications
Chang Liu, Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta
Orthogonally assembled double-layered corrugated (OADLC) mechanisms are a class of foldable structures that harness origami-inspired methods to enhance the structural stiffness of…
Towards One-Dollar Robots: An Integrated Design and Fabrication Strategy for Electromechanical Systems
Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta
To improve the accessibility of robotics, we propose a design and fabrication strategy to build low-cost electromechanical systems for robotic devices. Our method, based on origami…
Graph Neural Network for Large-Scale Network Localization
Wenzhong Yan, Di Jin, Zhidi Lin +1
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are popular to use for classifying structured data in the context of machine learning. But surprisingly, they are rarely applied to regression problems…
Improving Workflow Integration with xPath: Design and Evaluation of a Human-AI Diagnosis System in Pathology
Hongyan Gu, Yuan Liang, Yifan Xu +12
Recent developments in AI have provided assisting tools to support pathologists' diagnoses. However, it remains challenging to incorporate such tools into pathologists' practice; o…
Analytical Modeling for Rapid Design of Bistable Buckled Beams
Wenzhong Yan, Yunchen Yu, Ankur Mehta
Double-clamped bistable buckled beams, as the most elegant bistable mechanisms, demonstrate great versatility in various fields, such as robotics, energy harvesting, and MEMS. Howe…