5 accepted papers
Harnessing elastic energy for power amplification in robotic locomotion, inspired by living organisms' mechanisms, enables robots to achieve dynamic and rapid movements even with actuators of limited instantaneous power output. Previous research in this domain has employed multiple elastic elements
This study presents a bistable tensegrity robot that can perform repetitive jumps using one motor. This robot is based on a tensegrity structure that uses rigid plate-shaped compressors. To achieve bistability in this structure, we optimized the position of additional springs using a physics simulat…
This paper presents a novel method of realizing in-hand manipulation inspired by the peristaltic motion of a large-sized caterpillar. The sharp contrast between the proposed soft-bodied finger and the conventional hard/rigid robotic ones is peristaltic motion with compression and bending deformation…
Robotic surfaces can design the space they cover by deforming and can be used in laparoscopic surgery to secure a surgical field space. In medical applications, a coordinate transformation is crucial to cooperate with other robots. However, allowing shear in the robot surfaces' deformations makes ac
Surface robots can have many applications due to multiple degrees of freedom. Accordingly, many open research questions arise due to the limited number of realized cases and insufficient theory foundation. For a surface robot that performs deformations with shear deformation, the inner product calcu…