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SPROUT: The Open-Source Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Ciera McFarland, Robert Reeve +5
Soft robotic systems have long been theorized as ideal candidates for use in search and rescue operations; however, there have been significant barriers to entry in graduating soft…
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
Sebastian Lorca Godoy, Ciera McFarland, Michael Val +3
Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we present a sound-based system for localizing disaster victims in confin…
Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Robert Reeve, Ankush Dhawan +4
Soft, growing vine robots extend through tip eversion, a mechanism that enables navigation through cluttered environments. However, integrating cameras and other sensors at the tip…
Evaluating Accuracy of Vine Robot Shape Sensing with Distributed Inertial Measurement Units
Alexis E. Laudenslager, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Nathaniel Hanson +1
Soft, tip-extending vine robots are well suited for navigating tight, debris-filled environments, making them ideal for urban search and rescue. Sensing the full shape of a vine ro…
Anisotropic Stiffness and Programmable Actuation for Soft Robots Enabled by an Inflated Rotational Joint
Sicheng Wang, Eugenio Frias-Miranda, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia +1
Soft robots are known for their ability to perform tasks with great adaptability, enabled by their distributed, non-uniform stiffness and actuation. Bending is the most fundamental…
AeroHaptix: A Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback System for Enhancing Collision Avoidance in UAV Teleoperation
Bingjian Huang, Zhecheng Wang, Qilong Cheng +5
Haptic feedback enhances collision avoidance by providing directional obstacle information to operators during unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teleoperation. However, such feedback i…
A Review of Communicating Robot Learning during Human-Robot Interaction
Soheil Habibian, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Laura H. Blumenschein +1
For robots to seamlessly interact with humans, we first need to make sure that humans and robots understand one another. Diverse algorithms have been developed to enable robots to…
Wrapping Haptic Displays Around Robot Arms to Communicate Learning
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Soheil Habibian, Carly A. Mendenhall +4
Humans can leverage physical interaction to teach robot arms. As the human kinesthetically guides the robot through demonstrations, the robot learns the desired task. While prior w…
Wrapped Haptic Display for Communicating Physical Robot Learning
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Ritish Shailly, Naman Seth +3
Physical interaction between humans and robots can help robots learn to perform complex tasks. The robot arm gains information by observing how the human kinesthetically guides it…