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Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
Chuhan Zhang, Ebrahim Shahabi, Kseniia Khomenko +2
In animals such as elephants and octopuses, acquiring non-visual information about an object and physically engaging with it are inseparable processes mediated by rich, large-area…
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…
Propeller-Assisted Robust 3D Hopping Robot with Hierarchical Force Allocation
Chuhan Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Yanlin Chen +4
Monopedal hopping robots are conceptually simple but highly dynamic and inherently unstable. Achieving robust 3D hopping is still difficult because ground reaction forces are avail…
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…