4 accepted papers
This article presents ROGIBOT, an autonomous robot designed for high-speed unloading inside standard containers. Previous unloading robots have typically been limited to handling only box-shaped packages and a small number of items at a time. These limitations hinder their applicability in general l…
This paper introduces a novel origami-inspired vacuum pneumatic actuator that operates as a passive forcegenerating element, capable of producing a near-constant force without active control. The actuator is fabricated from a Yoshimura-patterned film structure incorporating rigid facets and internal
Commercial suction cups offer versatile solutions for adhering to a variety of objects through their good adhesion capabilities, compliance to object features, and ease of use. This has made them a practical solution for a variety of applications, and they have become ubiquitous across diverse indus
Tensegrity structures are an assembly of rigid struts in compression with elastic members in tension that are in equilibrium. The motion of tensegrity-based robots can be dynamically achieved by actively adjusting this equilibrium and has been used mainly to produce rolling robots. However, these te