34 papers
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…
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching
Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano RamÃrez 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…
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…
Soft Swing-up: Benchmarking Model-Based Optimal Control for Rigid-Soft Underactuated Systems
Daniele Caradonna, Nikhil Nair, Anup Teejo Mathew +5
Continuum soft robots are inherently underactuated and subject to intrinsic input constraints, making dynamic control particularly challenging, especially in hybrid rigid-soft robo…
Set-Supervised Diffusion Policy: Learning Action-Chunking Diffusion through Corrections
Zhaoting Li, Gang Chen, Javier Alonso-Mora +2
Diffusion policies have recently emerged as a powerful framework for robotic manipulation. However, like other behavior cloning methods, they remain vulnerable to distributional sh…
From Action Labels to Sets: Rethinking Action Supervision for Imitation Learning from Corrective Feedback
Zhaoting Li, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Robert Babuska +2
Behavior cloning (BC) optimizes policies by treating human demonstrations as pointwise action labels. While effective with accurate action labels, this formulation is brittle in pr…