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Bioinspired Tapered-Spring Turbulence Sensor for Underwater Flow Detection
Xiao Jin, Zhenhua Yu, Thrishantha Nanayakkara
This paper presents a bio-inspired underwater whisker sensor for robust hydrodynamic disturbance detection and efficient signal analysis based on Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC)…
Physical Reservoir Computing in Hook-Shaped Rover Wheel Spokes for Real-Time Terrain Identification
Xiao Jin, Zihan Wang, Zhenhua Yu +3
Effective terrain detection in unknown environments is crucial for safe and efficient robotic navigation. Traditional methods often rely on computationally intensive data processin…
An Origami-Inspired Endoscopic Capsule with Tactile Perception for Early Tissue Anomaly Detection
Yukun Ge, Rui Zong, Xiaoshuai Zhang +1
Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) is currently one of the most effective methods for detecting intestinal diseases. However, it is challenging to detect early-stage small nodules with…
Towards the Neuromorphic Computing for Offroad Robot Environment Perception and Navigation
Zhenhua Yu, Peter R. N. Childs, Thrishantha Nanayakkara
My research objective is to explicitly bridge the gap between high computational performance and low power dissipation of robot on-board hardware by designing a bio-inspired tapere…
Study on Soft Robotic Pinniped Locomotion
Dimuthu D. K. Arachchige, Tanmay Varshney, Umer Huzaifa +5
Legged locomotion is a highly promising but under-researched subfield within the field of soft robotics. The compliant limbs of soft-limbed robots offer numerous benefits, includin…
Self-Reconfigurable Soft-Rigid Mobile Agent with Variable Stiffness and Adaptive Morphology
Luiza Labazanova, Shuang Peng, Liuming Qiu +3
In this paper, we propose a novel design of a hybrid mobile robot with controllable stiffness and deformable shape. Compared to conventional mobile agents, our system can switch be…
Sustainably Grown: The Underdog Robots of the Future
Stoyan K. Smoukov
It is hard to imagine with the progress in robotics that current approaches are lacking somewhere, yet they will not be applicable to the majority of robots in the near future. We…
A Method to use Nonlinear Dynamics in a Whisker Sensor for Terrain Identification by Mobile Robots
Zhenhua Yu, S. M. Hadi Sadati, Hasitha Wegiriya +2
This paper shows analytical and experimental evidence of using the vibration dynamics of a compliant whisker for accurate terrain classification during steady state motion of a mob…