4 papers
Learning User Interaction Forces using Vision for a Soft Finger Exosuit
Mohamed Irfan Refai, Abdulaziz Y. Alkayas, Anup Teejo Mathew +2
Wearable assistive devices are increasingly becoming softer. Modelling their interface with human tissue is necessary to capture transmission of dynamic assistance. However, their…
Towards Generalist Robot Learning from Internet Video: A Survey
Robert McCarthy, Daniel C. H. Tan, Dominik Schmidt +5
Scaling deep learning to massive and diverse internet data has driven remarkable breakthroughs in domains such as video generation and natural language processing. Robot learning,…
A Survey on Soft Robot Adaptability: Implementations, Applications, and Prospects
Zixi Chen, Di Wu, Qinghua Guan +8
Soft robots, compared to rigid robots, possess inherent advantages, including higher degrees of freedom, compliance, and enhanced safety, which have contributed to their increasing…
Soft Synergies: Model Order Reduction of Hybrid Soft-Rigid Robots via Optimal Strain Parameterization
Abdulaziz Y. Alkayas, Anup Teejo Mathew, Daniel Feliu-Talegon +3
Soft robots offer remarkable adaptability and safety advantages over rigid robots, but modeling their complex, nonlinear dynamics remains challenging. Strain-based models have rece…