Shixin Mao

2 accepted papers

2024

Design and Control of a Transformable Multi-Mode Mobile Robot

Haoran Li, Yongzhong Bu, Yongjian Bu, Shixin Mao, Yisheng Guan, Haifei Zhu

RA-L 2024

Conventional mobile robots typically include a single locomotion mode and require additional arms to transport objects. To address the challenges of traversing in diverse environments and transporting objects, a novel transformable multi-mode Mecanum-wheeled mobile robot is proposed in this paper. O

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2016

Locomotion and gait analysis of multi-limb soft robots driven by smart actuators

Shixin Mao, Erbao Dong, Hu Jin, Min Xu, K. H. Low

IROS 2016poster

Animals provide inspiration for developing soft machines in bionics, robotics research as well as potential applications. This paper presents an integrated development of locomotive soft robot platforms: starfish-inspired robots with multi-limb bodies actuated by shape memory alloys (SMAs). The desi…

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