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Toward Trustworthy Physical AI for Human Interaction
Niccolò Pagliarani, Maximilian Stölzle, Cosima du Pasquier +6
Robots are entering human spaces faster than we can establish when they deserve trust. We propose a framework for trustworthy physical AI that integrates Safety, Behavioral Intelli…
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching
Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano Ramírez Montero +3
Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, high-dimensional state transfor…
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…
A Model-Based Decoupling Strategy for Proprioception and Contact Sensing in an Architected Soft Manipulator
Francesco Stella, Annan Zhang, Cosimo Della Santina +2
Soft continuum robots require embedded sensing for proprioception and contact detection, yet integrating sensors into sparse, highly deformable architected structures remains chall…
A Closed-Form CLF-CBF Controller for Whole-Body Continuum Soft Robot Collision Avoidance
Kiwan Wong, Maximillian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +1
Safe operation is essential for deploying robots in human-centered 3D environments. Soft continuum manipulators provide passive safety through mechanical compliance, but still requ…
Learning to Move in Rhythm: Task-Conditioned Motion Policies with Orbital Stability Guarantees
Maximilian Stölzle, T. Konstantin Rusch, Zach J. Patterson +5
Learning from demonstration provides a sample-efficient approach to acquiring complex behaviors, enabling robots to move robustly, compliantly, and with fluidity. In this context,…
Design of Trimmed Helicoid Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robots
Zach J. Patterson, Emily R. Sologuren, Daniela Rus
As soft robot design matures, researchers have converged to sophisticated design paradigms to enable the development of more suitable platforms. Two such paradigms are soft-rigid h…
Contact-Aware Safety in Soft Robots Using High-Order Control Barrier and Lyapunov Functions
Kiwan Wong, Maximilian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +3
Robots operating alongside people, particularly in sensitive scenarios such as aiding the elderly with daily tasks or collaborating with workers in manufacturing, must guarantee sa…
Soft yet Effective Robots via Holistic Co-Design
Maximilian Stölzle, Niccolò Pagliarani, Francesco Stella +6
Soft robots promise inherent safety via their material compliance for seamless interactions with humans or delicate environments. Despite progress, the field struggles to balance t…
Design and Control of Modular Soft-Rigid Hybrid Manipulators with Self-Contact
Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Cosimo Della Santina +1
Soft robotics focuses on designing robots with highly deformable materials, allowing them to adapt and operate safely and reliably in unstructured and variable environments. While…
Guiding Soft Robots with Motor-Imagery Brain Signals and Impedance Control
Maximilian Stölzle, Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Daniela Rus +2
Integrating Brain-Machine Interfaces into non-clinical applications like robot motion control remains difficult - despite remarkable advancements in clinical settings. Specifically…
Modeling and Control of Intrinsically Elasticity Coupled Soft-Rigid Robots
Zach J. Patterson, Cosimo Della Santina, Daniela Rus
While much work has been done recently in the realm of model-based control of soft robots and soft-rigid hybrids, most works examine robots that have an inherently serial structure…
An Experimental Study of Model-based Control for Planar Handed Shearing Auxetics Robots
Maximilian Stölzle, Daniela Rus, Cosimo Della Santina
Parallel robots based on Handed Shearing Auxetics (HSAs) can implement complex motions using standard electric motors while maintaining the complete softness of the structure, than…