3 accepted papers
This work explores the use of artificial whiskers as tactile sensors for enhancing the perception and navigation capabilities of mobile robots in challenging settings such as caves and underground mines. These environments exhibit inconsistent lighting conditions, locally self-similar textures, and…
This letter presents the design, development, and experimental assessment of a soft fluidic actuator that can enable locomotion in a variety of aquatic and terrestrial environments. Most actuation strategies for amphibious locomotion rely on rigid, fast moving components to generate thrust and tract
This letter presents a novel design of an oscillatory fin for thrust-efficient and agile underwater robotic locomotion. We propose a flat paddle-fin comprising a set of overlapping cascaded soft flaps that open in one half of the stroke cycle and close in the other. Consequently, asymmetry in the la