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* Design and locomotion control of soft robot using friction manipulation and motor-tendon actuation. See here for the related publication.
* Closed-loop shape control of a haptic jamming deformable surface
* Shape-based compliance in locomotion
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Stable grip control on soft objects with time-varying stiffness (IEEE Trans. Robot., May 2016)
- Design, kinematics, and control of a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator (Int. J. Robot. Res., June 2016)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Turtle mimetic soft robot with two swimming gaits (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2016)
- Bio-inspired flexible joints with passive feathering for robotic fish pectoral fins (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2016)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Magnetic and mechanical modeling of a soft three-axis force sensor (IEEE Sensors J., April 2016)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Series and parallel elastic actuation: Impact of natural dynamics on power and energy consumption (Mech. Mach. Theory, May 2016)
- Flexible and stretchable strain sensing actuator for wearable soft robotic applications (Adv. Mater., June 2016)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Voltage-induced pinnacle response in the dynamics of dielectric elastomers (Phys. Rev. E, May 2016)
- PDMS-based elastomer tuned soft, stretchable, and sticky for epidermal electronics (Adv. Mater., May 2016)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Learning from nature how to land aerial robots (Science – Perspective, May 2016)
- Artificial metamorphosis: Evolutionary design of transforming, soft-bodied robots (Artif. Life, May 2016)
- Active shape discrimination with compliant bodies as reservoir computers (Artif. Life, May 2016)
- Morphological computation of haptic perception of a controllable stiffness probe (PLoS ONE, June 2016)
* Biological and physical studies:
- Large deformations of a soft porous material (Phys. Rev. Applied, Apr. 2016)
- Motility-driven glass and jamming transitions in biological tissues (Phys. Rev. X, Apr. 2016)
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