4 papers
Highly Deformable Proprioceptive Membrane for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction
Guanyu Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Dezhong Tong +1
Reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) geometry of object surfaces is essential for robot perception, yet vision-based approaches degrade under low illumination or occlusion. Th…
Whole-Body Proprioceptive Morphing: A Modular Soft Gripper for Robust Cross-Scale Grasping
Dong Heon Han, Xiaohao Xu, Yuxi Chen +5
Biological systems, such as the octopus, exhibit masterful cross-scale manipulation by adaptively reconfiguring their entire form, a capability that remains elusive in robotics. Co…
Discrete Differential Geometry for Simulating Nonlinear Behaviors of Flexible Systems: A Survey
Dezhong Tong, Andrew Choi, Jiaqi Wang +7
Flexible slender structures such as rods, ribbons, plates, and shells exhibit extreme nonlinear responses bending, twisting, buckling, wrinkling, and self contact, that defy conven…
Natural Selection via Foundation Models for Soft Robot Evolution
Changhe Chen, Xiaohao Xu, Xiangdong Wang +1
Designing soft robots is a complex and iterative process that demands cross-disciplinary expertise in materials science, mechanics, and control, often relying on intuition and exte…