2 papers
cs.RO2026
Embodied Snap: Octopus-Inspired Distributed Reach-and-Attach with a Speed-Limited Soft Arm
Linxin Hou, Zhihang Qin, Heyang Zou +5
Reach-and-attach of soft robotic arms with passive suction requires accurate targeting and sufficient contact speed, yet geared actuators can impose a speed limit that improved tra…
cs.RO2026
Octopus-inspired Distributed Control for Soft Robotic Arms: A Graph Neural Network-Based Attention Policy with Environmental Interaction
Linxin Hou, Qirui Wu, Zhihang Qin +2
This paper proposes SoftGM, an octopus-inspired distributed control architecture for segmented soft robotic arms that learn to reach targets in contact-rich environments using onli…