5 accepted papers
This paper presents a vibration robot driven by a single motor that produces various behaviors by exploiting the deformable beams’ resonance phenomenon. The experiments using the prototypes demonstrate that the behavior can be switched by changing the motor’s vibration frequency. This research shows
Storing elastic energy in a soft body and releasing it instantly enables ultrafast movement beyond muscle capability, which small animals (mainly arthropods) realize. We applied this mechanism to a soft robot to achieve locomotion on top of a tubular surface such as a branch (i.e., upside-down brach
We used cells, which are the units that make up a living body, as building blocks to design a biomachine hybrid system and develop a tactile sensor that uses living cells as sensor receptors. We fabricated a novel cell tactile sensor with the electrodes formed using printed electronics technology. T…
Multimodal deformations of soft materials such as compression and bending are a commonplace event on soft-bodied animals (e.g., worms) and soft-bodied robots. Usually, such deformation modes are separately analyzed or constrained to decrease the degrees of freedom when one design motion of the soft-
A lot of research has been conducted on swarm and modular robots and their reconfiguration. For this kind of robot system, it is best to simplify each individual module in order to avoid making the swarm system too complex in the interest of reducing the computing power necessary for a task.This pap…