Michael Dina — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Design and Implementation of a Swimming and Walking Quadruped for Seafloor Exploration

Ashley Chase, Benjamin Labiner, Jonathan Boylan, Cameron Ryals, Jack Vranicar, Michael Dina +6

ICRA 2025

The seafloor is a complex environment and it is challenging to conduct detailed mapping, soil composition sampling, and habitat characterization missions in this benthic region. As a step toward overcoming these challenges, we present a quadruped robot capable of walking on the seafloor and maneuver

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2023

Design of STARQ: A Multimodal Quadrupedal Robot for Running, Climbing, and Swimming

Derek A. Vasquez, David Jay, Michael Dina, Max Austin, Shayne McConomy, Jonathan E. Clark

IROS 2023poster

Legged animals have developed a variety of modes of locomotion to adapt to the diverse and unknown terrain challenges posed in the natural world. Legged robots, however, have been largely limited to specializing in one domain, with few that have endeavored to bridge the gap between two. In this work…

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