3 accepted papers
For the state-of-the-art of soft robotics, the current actuation mechanisms cannot produce shear forces, neither are the current stiffening mechanisms adaptive to various deformations. Consequently, the soft robots gain strength at the price of losing flexibility. To fill this gap, we proposed a new…
Jumping spiders are capable of targeted jumps by using their front legs to guide the release of energy from their rear legs. In this paper, we present a simplified model of the jumping spider based on the anatomy of the real spider. The immediate goal of this model is to understand how the geometry
Snake robots can contact their environments along their whole bodies. This distributed contact makes them versatile and robust locomotors, but also makes controlling them a chal- lenging problem involving high-dimensional configuration spaces, with no direct way to break their motion down into âdr…