4 papers
Highly Deformable Proprioceptive Membrane for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction
Guanyu Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Dezhong Tong +1
Reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) geometry of object surfaces is essential for robot perception, yet vision-based approaches degrade under low illumination or occlusion. Th…
Natural Selection via Foundation Models for Soft Robot Evolution
Changhe Chen, Xiaohao Xu, Xiangdong Wang +1
Designing soft robots is a complex and iterative process that demands cross-disciplinary expertise in materials science, mechanics, and control, often relying on intuition and exte…
Whole-Body Proprioceptive Morphing: A Modular Soft Gripper for Robust Cross-Scale Grasping
Dong Heon Han, Xiaohao Xu, Yuxi Chen +5
Biological systems, such as the octopus, exhibit masterful cross-scale manipulation by adaptively reconfiguring their entire form, a capability that remains elusive in robotics. Co…
Discrete Differential Geometry for Simulating Nonlinear Behaviors of Flexible Systems: A Survey
Dezhong Tong, Andrew Choi, Jiaqi Wang +7
Flexible slender structures such as rods, ribbons, plates, and shells exhibit extreme nonlinear responses bending, twisting, buckling, wrinkling, and self contact, that defy conven…