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Stabilizing Low-Stiffness Soft Robots at Unstable Equilibria: A Model-Based Optimal Control Approach
Nikhil Nair, Daniele Caradonna, Anup Teejo Mathew +3
Continuum soft robots are highly nonlinear and underactuated systems, which makes stabilizing them around unstable equilibrium points difficult. This challenge becomes even greater…
Collocated Shape Regulation for Soft Robots
Pietro Pustina, Ebrahim Shahabi, Daniel Feliu-Talegon +2
Controlling the shape of a continuum soft robot typically requires an accurate dynamic model and actuation of all degrees of freedom. We show that regulating only the actuated coor…
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching
Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano Ramírez Montero +3
Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, high-dimensional state transfor…
SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models
Maximilian Stölzle, Solange Gribonval, Daniel Feliu-Talegon +9
Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the primary bottleneck in soft-robot control. Their implementations, ho…
A Model-Based Decoupling Strategy for Proprioception and Contact Sensing in an Architected Soft Manipulator
Francesco Stella, Annan Zhang, Cosimo Della Santina +2
Soft continuum robots require embedded sensing for proprioception and contact detection, yet integrating sensors into sparse, highly deformable architected structures remains chall…
Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics
Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi +1
High-performance closed-loop control of truly soft continuum manipulators has remained elusive. Experimental demonstrations have largely relied on sufficiently stiff, piecewise arc…
Infinite-Dimensional Closed-Loop Inverse Kinematics for Soft Robots via Neural Operators
Carina Veil, Moritz Flaschel, Ellen Kuhl +1
For fully actuated rigid robots, kinematic inversion is a purely geometric problem, efficiently solved by closed-loop inverse kinematics (CLIK) schemes that compute joint velocitie…
SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot
Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina
Robust closed-loop locomotion remains challenging for soft quadruped robots due to high-dimensional dynamics, actuator hysteresis, and difficult-to-model contact interactions, whil…