Lawrence Smith — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Femtosecond Laser Fabricated Nitinol Living Hinges for Millimeter-Sized Robots

Alexander Hedrick, Heiko Kabutz, Lawrence Smith, Robert MacCurdy, Kaushik Jayaram

RA-L 2024

Nitinol is a smart material that can be used as an actuator, a sensor, or a structural element, and has the potential to significantly enhance the capabilities of microrobots. Femtosecond laser technology can be used to process nitinol while avoiding heat-affected zones (HAZ), thus retaining superel

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2020

A Fabrication Free, 3D Printed, Multi-Material, Self-Sensing Soft Actuator

Travis Hainsworth, Lawrence Smith, Sebastian Alexander, Robert MacCurdy

RA-L 2020

Soft robotics offers a range of attractive features relative to traditional rigid robots, including inherently safer human-robot interactions, and continuous passive dynamics that enable morphological computation. Here we present an actuator with an integrated print-in-place strain sensor which is p

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