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Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots

Dario Floreano, Hoang Vu Phan, Yi Sun, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, Omar Aloui

Electro-adhesive clutches have become effective tools for variable stiffness functions in many robotic systems due to their light weight, high speed and strong brake force. In this paper, we present a novel, tubular design of an electro-adhesive clutch. Ou ...

IEEE2022

Real-time model calibration with deep reinforcement learning

Olga Fink, Yuan Tian

The real-time, and accurate inference of model parameters is of great importance in many scientific and engineering disciplines that use computational models (such as a digital twin) for the analysis and prediction of complex physical processes. However, f ...

2022

Tether Climbing Robot for Environmental Sampling and Data Collection

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge, Max Mirko Polzin, Qinghua Guan, Nicolas Mathis Minder

Developing robots that can explore environments without disturbing the natural flora and fauna could allow a safe exploration for both the robot and its surroundings. However, this can involve exploring complex or challenging environments, for example extr ...

2022

How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

Raphael Zufferey

Flapping wings produce lift and thrust in bio-inspired aerial robots, leading to quiet, safe and efficient flight. However, to extend their application scope, these robots must perch and land, a feat widely demonstrated by birds. Despite recent progress, f ...

Berlin2022

Blind as a Bat: Audible Echolocation on Small Robots

Martin Vetterli, Mihailo Kolundzija, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet, Adam James Scholefield, Frederike Dümbgen

For safe and efficient operation, mobile robots need to perceive their environment, and in particular, perform tasks such as obstacle detection, localization, and mapping. Although robots are often equipped with microphones and speakers, the audio modality ...

2022

Powerful 2D Soft Morphing Actuator Propels Giant Manta Ray Robot

Miao Li, Yi Sun

Soft actuator is the main technology that drives the development of soft robotics as it defines the capabilities of soft machines. One of the key challenges in soft actuator research is to simultaneously produce complex morphing (e.g., surface morphing) an ...

WILEY2022

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We present a visual localization system that learns to estimate camera poses in the real world with the help of synthetic data. Despite significant progress in recent years, most learning-based approaches to visual localization target at a single domain an ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

To tread or not to tread: comparison between water treading and conventional flapping wing kinematics

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Swathi Badala Krishna

Hovering insects are limited by their physiology and need to rotate their wings at the end of each back-and-forth motion to keep the wing's leading edge ahead of its trailing edge. The wing rotation at the end of each half-stroke pushes the leading edge vo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The aim of this project was to assemble, interconnect, and program a group of ground robots. The objective of the robot control is to cooperatively complete a set of tasks where each task represents a goal location that needs to be visited. For the hardwar ...

2022

Putting Temperature into the Equation: Development and Validation of Algorithms to Distinguish Non-Wearing from Inactivity and Sleep in Wearable Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Sara Pagnamenta

Long-term monitoring of real-life physical activity (PA) using wearable devices is increasingly used in clinical and epidemiological studies. The quality of the recorded data is an important issue, as unreliable data may negatively affect the outcome measu ...

MDPI2022

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