4 papers
Quadrature Oscillation System for Coordinated Motion in Crawling Origami Robot
Sean Liu, Ankur Mehta, Wenzhong Yan
Origami-inspired robots offer rapid, accessible design and manufacture with diverse functionalities. In particular, origami robots without conventional electronics have the unique…
Surrogate compliance modeling enables reinforcement learned locomotion gaits for soft robots
Jue Wang, Mingsong Jiang, Luis A. Ramirez +5
Adaptive morphogenetic robots adapt their morphology and control policies to meet changing tasks and environmental conditions. Many such systems leverage soft components, which ena…
Self-Deployable, Adaptive Soft Robots Based on Contracting-Cord Particle Jamming
Wenzhong Yan, Brian Ye, Mingxi Li +2
We developed a new class of soft locomotive robots that can self-assemble into a preprogrammed configuration and vary their stiffness afterward in a highly integrated, compact body…
Self-deployable contracting-cord metamaterials with tunable mechanical properties
Wenzhong Yan, Talmage Jones, Christopher L. Jawetz +3
Recent advances in active materials and fabrication techniques have enabled the production of cyclically self-deployable metamaterials with an expanded functionality space. However…