3 papers
cs.RO2025
SpikingSoft: A Spiking Neuron Controller for Bio-inspired Locomotion with Soft Snake Robots
Chuhan Zhang, Cong Wang, Wei Pan +1
Inspired by the dynamic coupling of moto-neurons and physical elasticity in animals, this work explores the possibility of generating locomotion gaits by utilizing physical oscilla…
cs.RO2025
Real-Time Generation of Near-Minimum-Energy Trajectories via Constraint-Informed Residual Learning
Domenico Dona', Giovanni Franzese, Cosimo Della Santina +2
Industrial robotics demands significant energy to operate, making energy-reduction methodologies increasingly important. Strategies for planning minimum-energy trajectories typical…
cs.RO2022
Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Tentacles with Model Based Reconstruction for Controller Optimization
Andrea Vicari, Nana Obayashi, Francesco Stella +4
The success of soft robots in displaying emergent behaviors is tightly linked to the compliant interaction with the environment. However, to exploit such phenomena, proprioceptive…