2 papers
cs.RO2025
SCALER: Versatile Multi-Limbed Robot for Free-Climbing in Extreme Terrains
Yusuke Tanaka, Yuki Shirai, Alexander Schperberg +2
This paper presents SCALER, a versatile free-climbing multi-limbed robot that is designed to achieve tightly coupled simultaneous locomotion and dexterous grasping. While existing…
cs.RO2025
Is Linear Feedback on Smoothed Dynamics Sufficient for Stabilizing Contact-Rich Plans?
Yuki Shirai, Tong Zhao, H. J. Terry Suh +5
Designing planners and controllers for contact-rich manipulation is extremely challenging as contact violates the smoothness conditions that many gradient-based controller synthesi…