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SPROUT: The Open-Source Soft Growing Robot for Search and Rescue
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Ciera McFarland, Robert Reeve +5
Soft robotic systems have long been theorized as ideal candidates for use in search and rescue operations; however, there have been significant barriers to entry in graduating soft…
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
Sebastian Lorca Godoy, Ciera McFarland, Michael Val +3
Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we present a sound-based system for localizing disaster victims in confin…
Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Robert Reeve, Ankush Dhawan +4
Soft, growing vine robots extend through tip eversion, a mechanism that enables navigation through cluttered environments. However, integrating cameras and other sensors at the tip…
Modeling Collapse of Steered Vine Robots Under Their Own Weight
Ciera McFarland, Margaret McGuinness
Soft, vine-inspired growing robots that move by eversion are highly mobile in confined environments, but, when faced with gaps in the environment, they may collapse under their own…
On Steerability Factors for Growing Vine Robots
Ciera McFarland, Antonio Alvarez, Sarah Taher +2
Vine robots extend their tubular bodies by everting material from the tip, enabling navigation in complex environments with a minimalist soft body. Despite their promise for field…
Field Insights for Portable Vine Robots in Urban Search and Rescue
Ciera McFarland, Ankush Dhawan, Riya Kumari +3
Soft, growing vine robots are well-suited for exploring cluttered, unknown environments, and are theorized to be performant during structural collapse incidents caused by earthquak…
Estimating Infinite-Dimensional Continuum Robot States From the Tip
Tongjia Zheng, Ciera McFarland, Margaret Coad +1
Knowing the state of a robot is critical for many problems, such as feedback control. For continuum robots, state estimation is an incredible challenge. First, the motion of a cont…
Soft Air Pocket Force Sensors for Large Scale Flexible Robots
Michael R. Mitchell, Ciera McFarland, Margaret M. Coad
Flexible robots have advantages over rigid robots in their ability to conform physically to their environment and to form a wide variety of shapes. Sensing the force applied by or…
Collapse of Straight Soft Growing Inflated Beam Robots Under Their Own Weight
Ciera McFarland, Margaret M. Coad
Soft, growing inflated beam robots, also known as everting vine robots, have previously been shown to navigate confined spaces with ease. Less is known about their ability to navig…
A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors
Baxi Chong, Yasemin O. Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser +13
Serially connected robots are promising candidates for performing tasks in confined spaces such as search-and-rescue in large-scale disasters. Such robots are typically limbless, a…