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most citedPiezoelectric Soft Robot Inchworm Motion by Tuning Ground Friction through Robot Shape: Quasi-Static Modeling and Experimental Validation

33 citations · 69 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2026

Industrial Dexterity Benchmark: A Hardware-Software Benchmarking Platform for Industrial Dexterous Manipulation

Honglu He, Jacob Laufer, Zhiwu Zheng +8

Dexterous manipulation remains a critical bottleneck in industrial automation; tasks such as cable routing, connector insertion, and precision assembly still rely heavily on manual…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

eViper: A Scalable Platform for Untethered Modular Soft Robots

Hsin Cheng, Zhiwu Zheng, Prakhar Kumar +6

Soft robots present unique capabilities, but have been limited by the lack of scalable technologies for construction and the complexity of algorithms for efficient control and moti…

cs.RO2022★ 7 cited

Wirelessly-Controlled Untethered Piezoelectric Planar Soft Robot Capable of Bidirectional Crawling and Rotation

Zhiwu Zheng, Hsin Cheng, Prakhar Kumar +4

Electrostatic actuators provide a promising approach to creating soft robotic sheets, due to their flexible form factor, modular integration, and fast response speed. However, thei…

cs.RO2022★ 18 cited

Model-Based Control of Planar Piezoelectric Inchworm Soft Robot for Crawling in Constrained Environments

Zhiwu Zheng, Prakhar Kumar, Yenan Chen +5

Soft robots have drawn significant attention recently for their ability to achieve rich shapes when interacting with complex environments. However, their elasticity and flexibility…

cs.RO2022★ 10 cited

Scalable Simulation and Demonstration of Jumping Piezoelectric 2-D Soft Robots

Zhiwu Zheng, Prakhar Kumar, Yenan Chen +5

Soft robots have drawn great interest due to their ability to take on a rich range of shapes and motions, compared to traditional rigid robots. However, the motions, and underlying…

cs.RO2021★ 33 cited

Piezoelectric Soft Robot Inchworm Motion by Tuning Ground Friction through Robot Shape: Quasi-Static Modeling and Experimental Validation

Zhiwu Zheng, Prakhar Kumar, Yenan Chen +5

Electrically-driven soft robots based on piezoelectric actuators may enable compact form factors and maneuverability in complex environments. In most prior work, piezoelectric actu…