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A variational approach to geometric mechanics for undulating robotic locomotion
Sean Even, Patrick S. Martinez, Cora Keogh +3
Limbless organisms of all sizes use undulating patterns of self-deformation to locomote. Geometric mechanics, which maps deformations to motions, provides a powerful framework to f…
Machine Learning-Driven Burrowing with a Snake-Like Robot
Sean Even, Holden Gordon, Hoeseok Yang +1
Subterranean burrowing is inherently difficult for robots because of the high forces experienced as well as the high amount of uncertainty in this domain. Because of the difficulty…
Locomotion and Obstacle Avoidance of a Worm-like Soft Robot
Sean Even, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
This paper presents a soft earthworm robot that is capable of both efficient locomotion and obstacle avoidance. The robot is designed to replicate the unique locomotion mechanisms…
Stable Real-Time Feedback Control of a Pneumatic Soft Robot
Sean Even, Tongjia Zheng, Hai Lin +1
Soft actuators offer compliant and safe interaction with an unstructured environment compared to their rigid counterparts. However, control of these systems is often challenging be…