4 papers
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…
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…
RubbleSim: A Photorealistic Structural Collapse Simulator for Confined Space Mapping
Constantine Frost, Chad Council, Margaret McGuinness +1
Despite well-reported instances of robots being used in disaster response, there is scant published data on the internal composition of the void spaces within structural collapse i…
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…