Publications by Matthew Aaron Robertson

3D Printed Motor-Sensory Module Prototype for Facial Rehabilitation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Matthew Aaron Robertson

This work demonstrates the first 3D printed wearable motor-sensory module prototype designed for facial rehabilitation, focusing on facial paralysis. The novelty of the work lies in the fast fabrication of the first fully soft working prototype, including ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2022

Soft pneumatic actuator-driven origami-inspired modular robotic ‘‘pneumagami’’

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Özdemir Can Kara

This article presents a new modular robotic platform for enabling reconfigurable, actively controlled, high-degree-of-freedom (high-DoF) systems with compact form factor. The robotic modules exploit the advantages of origami-inspired construction methods a ...

2021

Bi-Modal Control of Vacuum-Powered Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Embedded Liquid Metal-Based Strain Sensitive Skin

Stéphanie Lacour, Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Laurent Mirko Dejace

Soft robotic systems are composed of active and passively deformable structures which are intrinsically compliant, flexible, and elastic. Although these features offer benefits of adaptability, robustness, and safety, controlling these types of robots is a ...

IEEE2019

RoboScallop: A Bivalve Inspired Swimming Robot

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Underwater swimming robots permit remote access to over 70% of the Earth's surface that is covered in water for a variety of scientific, environmental, tactical, or industrial purposes. Many practical applications for robots in this setting include sensing ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Modular soft pneumatic actuator system design for compliance matching

Matthew Aaron Robertson

The future of robotics is personal. Never before has technology been as pervasive as it is today, with advanced mobile electronics hardware and multi-level network connectivity pushing â smartâ devices deeper into our daily lives through home automation ...

EPFL2019

Design and Computational Modeling of a Modular, Compliant Robotic Assembly for Human Lumbar Unit and Spinal Cord Assistance (vol 7, 14391, 2017)

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Harshal Arun Sonar, Gunjan Agarwal

Nature Research2018

A Compact Modular Soft Surface With Reconfigurable Shape and Stiffness

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Wyatt Marshall Felt, Masato Murakami

A variety of reconfigurable surface devices, utilizing large numbers of actuated physical pixels to produce discretized 3D contours, have been developed for different purposes in research and industry. The difficulty of integrating many actuators in close ...

2018

Growing a 'cosmic beast': observations and simulations of MACS J0717.5+3745

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, David Richard Harvey, Barney Frederick Drake, Mathilde Jauzac, Matthieu Schaller, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Elena Cristina Dalla Vecchia, Richard Massey

We present a gravitational lensing and X-ray analysis of a massive galaxy cluster and its surroundings. The core of MACS J0717.5+3745 (M(R < 1Mpc) similar to 2 x 10(15) M-circle dot, z = 0.54) is already known to contain four merging components. We show th ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

Modeling Vacuum Bellows Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Optimal Mechanical Performance

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Wyatt Marshall Felt

This paper presents the concept and model of "Vacuum Bellows," a cylindrical membrane-reinforced contractile vacuum soft pneumatic actuator (V-SPAs). These actuators consist of a tubular membrane connected to a series of interior rigid rings periodically s ...

2018

A soft portable wearable pneumatic interactive suit

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Harshal Arun Sonar, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar

A fully wearable system used for communication and information transfer between two users or between a user and a machine to render an effective and intuitive physical interface for combined input and output functions, the fully wearable system including a ...

2018