6 accepted papers
Unmanned aerial–aquatic vehicles (UAAVs) provide cross-domain adaptability and broad visions, while autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) support long-duration operations. This work integrates the two by developing a rapid underwater docking and releasing system. An autonomous clamping mechanism is …
With the global ecological environment facing continuous deterioration, effective monitoring of arboreal birds in complex canopy environments remains challenging due to limitations of conventional drones in endurance, size, and habitat disturbance. To address these challenges, this paper presents an
In-flight high-speed object capturing is crucial in nature to improve survival and adaptation to the environment, such as the predation of frogs, leopards, and eagles. Despite its ubiquitousness in nature, capturing fast-moving objects is extremely challenging in engineering implementations. In this…
Recently, tactile sensing has attracted great interests in robotics, especially for exploring unstructured objects. Sensor arrays play an important role in the exploration, which generates rich spatio-temporal information. In this work, we propose an efficient tactile recognition model, X-Tacformer.…
Stiffness variation and real-time position feedback are critical for any robotic system but most importantly for active and wearable devices to interact with the user and environment. Currently, for compact sizes, there is a lack of solutions bringing high-fidelity feedback and maintaining design an
Soft robotic gloves have shown great advantages in assisting individuals with hand pathologies to perform continuous exercises to restore their hand functions, which could considerably accelerate the rehabilitation process and reduce the costs. However, single rehabilitation mode, difficulty in achi…