4 papers
Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics
Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi +1
High-performance closed-loop control of truly soft continuum manipulators has remained elusive. Experimental demonstrations have largely relied on sufficiently stiff, piecewise arc…
SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot
Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina
Robust closed-loop locomotion remains challenging for soft quadruped robots due to high-dimensional dynamics, actuator hysteresis, and difficult-to-model contact interactions, whil…
Mastering Contact-rich Tasks by Combining Soft and Rigid Robotics with Imitation Learning
Mariano RamÃrez Montero, Ebrahim Shahabi, Giovanni Franzese +3
Soft robots have the potential to revolutionize the use of robotic systems with their capability of establishing safe, robust, and adaptable interactions with their environment, bu…
3D Printable Gradient Lattice Design for Multi-Stiffness Robotic Fingers
Siebe J. Schouten, Tomas Steenman, Rens File +5
Human fingers achieve exceptional dexterity and adaptability by combining structures with varying stiffness levels, from soft tissues (low) to tendons and cartilage (medium) to bon…