4 papers
Towards insect-like distributed proprioception in actuators and appendages for flapping-wing insect-scale aerial robots
Alexander Hedrick, Arvind Gupta, Kaushik Jayaram
Modern flapping-wing insect-scale air vehicles display agility similar to that of their insect counterparts; however, these impressive maneuvers are only possible with off-board se…
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…
Multilaminate piezoelectric PVDF actuators to enhance performance of soft micro robots
Nicholas Gunter, Heiko Kabutz, Kaushik Jayaram
Multilayer piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) actuators are a promising approach to enhance performance of soft microrobotic systems. In this work, we develop and charact…
Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
Parker McDonnell, Lingsheng Meng, Hari Krishna Hariprasad +5
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) uses its soft antennae to guide decision making by extracting rich tactile information from tens of thousands of distributed mechanos…