6 papers
Linking Exteroception and Proprioception through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston +1
Passive deformation due to compliance is a commonly used benefit of soft robots, providing opportunities to achieve robust actuation with few active degrees of freedom. Soft growin…
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
Parallel Simulation of Contact and Actuation for Soft Growing Robots
Yitian Gao, Lucas Chen, Priyanka Bhovad +3
Soft growing robots, commonly referred to as vine robots, have demonstrated remarkable ability to interact safely and robustly with unstructured and dynamic environments. It is the…
Transport and Delivery of Objects with a Soft Everting Robot
Ethan DeVries, Jack Ferlazzo, Mustafa Ugur +1
Soft everting robots present significant advantages over traditional rigid robots, including enhanced dexterity, improved environmental interaction, and safe navigation in unpredic…
A Modular Haptic Display with Reconfigurable Signals for Personalized Information Transfer
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Benjamin A. Christie, Dylan P. Losey +1
We present a customizable soft haptic system that integrates modular hardware with an information-theoretic algorithm to personalize feedback for different users and tasks. Our pla…
Physics-Grounded Differentiable Simulation for Soft Growing Robots
Lucas Chen, Yitian Gao, Sicheng Wang +3
Soft-growing robots (i.e., vine robots) are a promising class of soft robots that allow for navigation and growth in tightly confined environments. However, these robots remain cha…