4 papers
Sitting, Standing and Walking Control of the Series-Parallel Hybrid Recupera-Reha Exoskeleton
Ibrahim Tijjani, Rohit Kumar, Melya Boukheddimi +3
This paper presents advancements in the functionalities of the Recupera-Reha lower extremity exoskeleton robot. The exoskeleton features a series-parallel hybrid design characteriz…
RicMonk: A Three-Link Brachiation Robot with Passive Grippers for Energy-Efficient Brachiation
Shourie S. Grama, Mahdi Javadi, Shivesh Kumar +2
This paper presents the design, analysis, and performance evaluation of RicMonk, a novel three-link brachiation robot equipped with passive hook-shaped grippers. Brachiation, an ag…
Robust Co-Design of Canonical Underactuated Systems for Increased Certifiable Stability
Federico Girlanda, Lasse Shala, Shivesh Kumar +1
Optimal behaviours of a system to perform a specific task can be achieved by leveraging the coupling between trajectory optimization, stabilization, and design optimization. This a…
Deriving Rewards for Reinforcement Learning from Symbolic Behaviour Descriptions of Bipedal Walking
Daniel Harnack, Christoph Lüth, Lukas Gross +2
Generating physical movement behaviours from their symbolic description is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, requiring insights into numerical…