3 papers
cs.CE2026
Automated design of soft-rigid hybrid robots for dynamic locomotion
Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuki Takaha, Changyoung Yuhn +4
Rigid-bodied robots often lack compliance needed to adapt to unstructured environments, while fully soft robots, though highly adaptable, struggle with scalability and load capacit…
cs.CE2024
Computational co-design of structure and feedback controller for locomoting soft robots
Yuki Sato, Changyoung Yuhn, Hiroki Kobayashi +2
Soft robots have gained significant attention due to their flexibility and safety, particularly in human-centric applications. The co-design of structure and controller in soft rob…
cs.CE2023
Computational synthesis of locomotive soft robots by topology optimization
Hiroki Kobayashi, Farzad Gholami, S. Macrae Montgomery +7
Locomotive soft robots (SoRos) have gained prominence due to their adaptability. Traditional locomotive SoRo design is based on limb structures inspired by biological organisms and…