15 accepted papers
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant attention and widespread adoption due to their impressive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, in practice, their substantial computational overhead often leads to high inference latency and increased overheads when deployed on res
Visual models are deployed on many Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to power a variety of visual applications at the network edge. These models often need to be fine-tuned on-device continually to adapt to changing operating environments timely. However, the computing and energy overheads incurred a
Vision Transformers (ViTs) often need to be compressed for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices like drones and smart vehicles. However, existing model compression methods ignore that many edge devices only require the knowledge of specific classes for their applications. As a result, the
Suckers are significant for robots in picking, transferring, manipulation and locomotion on diverse surfaces. However, conventional suckers lack high-fidelity tactile perception, which impedes them from resolving the fine-grained geometric features and interaction status of the target surface. This …
Large Vision Transformers (ViTs) must often be compressed before they can be deployed on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many edge devices require only part of the *all-classes* knowledge of a pre-trained ViT in their corresponding application scenarios. This is overlooked by existing c…
KV cache technology, by storing key-value pairs, helps reduce the computational overhead incurred by *large language models* (LLMs). It facilitates their deployment on resource-constrained edge computing nodes like edge servers. However, as the complexity and size of tasks increase, KV cache usage l…
In this letter, we aim to develop an efficient and accurate kinematic model of a soft wrist that consists of pneumatic bellows configured in parallel, toward dexterous manipulation in confined space. The challenge arises from the distributed nature and deformation-dependency of the generated pneumat
In this letter, we propose a new class of soft pneumatic linear actuators with single-material, uniaxial deformation, high energy density, and scalability, purely based on periodic curved air channels. The shape of channels is implicitly parameterized by modified triply periodic minimal surfaces (mT
Twisting motion plays an important role in kinematics of soft robots. However, current twisting actuators usually suffer from complex mechanical design with multiple materials and undesired coupling with bending and stretching motions. In this letter, we propose a new class of soft twisting pneumati
Shape morphing is at the core of future research, which shows promise for wide applications ranging from reconfigurable electronics to soft material robots. In this paper, we present a novel buckling-induced mechanism for shape morphing using dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), by bonding the pla…
Soft robots have recently evoked extensive attention due to their abilities to work effectively in unstructured environments. As an actuation technology of soft robots, dielectric elastomers exhibit many intriguing attributes such as large strain and high energy density. This work presents a novel d…
Soft-bodied robots, due to their intrinsic compliance, have shown great potential for operating within unstructured environment and interacting with unknown objects. This letter deals with automatic design and fabrication of soft robots. From a structure point of view, we synthesize a soft cable-dri
Soft robots, primarily made out of intrinsically soft materials, have flourished greatly in the past decade due to their advantages such as flexibility and adaptability over rigid-bodied robots. A rich repertoire of soft robots designed from intuitive or biomimetic approaches have been developed to…
Soft actuators play an important role in producing motions in soft robots, and dielectric elastomers have shown great promise because of their considerable voltage-induced deformation. In particular, air-filled dielectric elastomer actuators have been well studied, where the air inside provides pres…
A dielectric elastomer is able to act as an actuator when subjected to an electric field. However, the allowable deformation of dielectric elastomer actuators is severely limited by the material failures. To extend the actuation range, this letter investigates a network of two interconnected dielect