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Powerful 2D Soft Morphing Actuator Propels Giant Manta Ray Robot

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

Generating Smooth Pose Sequences for Diverse Human Motion Prediction

Mathieu Salzmann, Wei Mao

Recent progress in stochastic motion prediction, i.e., predicting multiple possible future human motions given a single past pose sequence, has led to producing truly diverse future motions and even providing control over the motion of some body parts. How ...

IEEE2021

Gallium-Based Thin Films for Wearable Sensors and Electronic Skins

Laurent Mirko Dejace

Integrated wearable electronics capable of providing biophysical information on complex and dynamic systems have attracted high interest in diverse fields such as healthcare, gaming and robotics. Wearable sensors can create artificial, electronic skins wit ...

EPFL2020

Hand-worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini, Antoine Weber

Drone teleoperation is usually accomplished using remote radio controllers, devices that can be hard to master for inexperienced users. Moreover, the limited amount of information fed back to the user about the robot's state, often limited to vision, can r ...

2020

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

Reinforcement learning of trajectory distributions: Applications in assisted teleoperation and motion planning

The majority of learning from demonstration approaches do not address suboptimal demonstrations or cases when drastic changes in the environment occur after the demonstrations were made. For example, in real teleoperation tasks, the demonstrations provided ...

2019

Low-inertia vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator coil characterization and design methodology

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Recently developed soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) powered by negative pressure have demonstrated great potential in the future of soft robotics for their high strength, intrinsic safety, low weight, and often simple design. The majority of these have only ...

2018

Interactive soft pneumatic actuator skin

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

The interactive soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) skin is a soft wearable device with integrated actuation and sensing. The SPA skin is a flat flexible patch that can be worn on the body, consisting of a 2-D matrix with independent actuation and sensing elemen ...

2017

Practical control methods for vacuum driven soft actuator modules

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuator (VSPA) Modules have been described to afford advantages for rapid development of reconfigurable, multi-DoF soft pneumatic robots powered by vacuum by reducing their logistical complexity, however they also present new ...

2017

New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

We introduce a vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator (V-SPA) that leverages a single, shared vacuum power supply and enables complex soft robotic systems with multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) and diverse functions. In addition to actuation, other utilit ...

2017

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