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cs.RO2026
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…
cs.RO2025
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…
cs.RO2024
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…