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Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
Chuhan Zhang, Ebrahim Shahabi, Kseniia Khomenko +2
In animals such as elephants and octopuses, acquiring non-visual information about an object and physically engaging with it are inseparable processes mediated by rich, large-area…
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Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics
Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi +1
High-performance closed-loop control of truly soft continuum manipulators has remained elusive. Experimental demonstrations have largely relied on sufficiently stiff, piecewise arc…
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SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot
Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina
Robust closed-loop locomotion remains challenging for soft quadruped robots due to high-dimensional dynamics, actuator hysteresis, and difficult-to-model contact interactions, whil…