Helena Young — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials

James Avtges, Jake B. Ketchum, Helena Young, Taekyoung Kim, Ryan L. Truby, Todd Murphey

RSS 2026poster

Adaptation to damages and in-situ physical repairs is essential for long-term robot autonomy, yet challenging outside of narrowly defined and well-anticipated bounds. In this work we proprioceptively adapt to catastrophic damage in soft-actuated systems in under one minute. Architected materials are…

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2025

Real-Time Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Tasks with a Parallel Soft Robot

James Avtges, Jake Ketchum, Millicent Schlafly, Helena Young, Taekyoung Kim, Allison Pinosky +2

IROS 2025

Closed-loop control remains an open challenge in soft robotics. The nonlinear responses of soft actuators under dynamic loading conditions limit the use of analytic models for soft robot control. Traditional methods of controlling soft robots underutilize their configuration spaces to avoid nonlinea

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