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Amir Jafari

3 accepted papers

2024

Agonist-Antagonist Pouch Motors: Bidirectional Soft Actuators Enhanced by Thermally Responsive Peltier Elements

IROS 2024poster

In this study, we introduce a novel Mylar-based pouch motor design that leverages the reversible actuation capabilities of Peltier junctions to enable agonist-antagonist muscle mimicry in soft robotics. Addressing the limitations of traditional silicone-based materials, such as leakage and phase-cha…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Improving Cross-lingual Transfer with Contrastive Negative Learning and Self-training

COLING 2024main

Recent studies improve the cross-lingual transfer learning by better aligning the internal representations within the multilingual model or exploring the information of the target language using self-training. However, the alignment-based methods exhibit intrinsic limitations such as non-transferabl…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2018

Dynamic Actuator Selection and Robust State-Feedback Control of Networked Soft Actuators

ICRA 2018poster

The design of robots that are light, soft, powerful is a grand challenge. Since they can easily adapt to dynamic environments, soft robotic systems have the potential of changing the status-quo of bulky robotics. A crucial component of soft robotics is a soft actuator that is activated by external s…

Cited by 22SourceScholar