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Curvature-Induced Buckling for Flapping-Wing Vehicles by Sharifzadeh, Mohammad, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…This article explores a technique to leverage curved surfaces for producing preferential buckling that can be used to create forward thrust in flapping-wing…”
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Heterogeneous Hydrogel Structures with Spatiotemporal Reconfigurability using Addressable and Tunable Voxels by Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Alsaid, Yousif, Rico, Rossana, Marvi, Hamid, Peet, Matthew M., Fisher, Rebecca E., Berman, Spring, He, Ximin, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…Stimuli‐responsive hydrogels can sense environmental cues and change their volume accordingly without the need for additional sensors or actuators. This…”
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Design and testing of a selectively compliant underactuated hand by Aukes, Daniel M., Heyneman, Barrett, Ulmen, John, Stuart, Hannah, Cutkosky, Mark R., Kim, Susan, Garcia, Pablo, Edsinger, Aaron

“…Motivated by the requirements of mobile manipulation, a compliant underactuated hand, capable of locking individual joints, has been developed. Locking is…”
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Reconfigurable Curved Beams for Selectable Swimming Gaits in an Underwater Robot by Sharifzadeh, Mohammad, Jiang, Yuhao, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…Rowing is a swimming motion employed by a number of animals via tuned passive biomechanics and active gait strategies. This gait generates positive net thrust…”
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Origami-Inspired Wearable Robot for Trunk Support by Li, Dongting, Yumbla, Emiliano Quinones, Olivas, Alyssa, Sugar, Thomas, Amor, Heni Ben, Lee, Hyunglae, Zhang, Wenlong, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…We present a wearable "exo-shell" device inspired by the human spine for improving the gait of elderly people during obstacle avoidance tasks. This…”
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Development of A Dynamic Quadruped with Tunable, Compliant Legs by Chen, Fuchen, Tao, Weijia, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…To facilitate the study of how passive leg stiffness influences locomotion dynamics and performance, we have developed an affordable and accessible 400 g…”
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Tunable Dynamic Walking via Soft Twisted Beam Vibration by Jiang, Yuhao, Chen, Fuchen, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…We propose a novel mechanism that propagates vibration through soft twisted beams, taking advantage of dynamically-coupled anisotropic stiffness to simplify…”
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Compliant Fins for Locomotion in Granular Media by Li, Dongting, Huang, Sichuan, Tang, Yong, Marvi, Hamidreza, Tao, Junliang, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…In this letter, we present an approach to study the behavior of compliant plates in granular media and optimize the performance of a robot that utilizes this…”
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Tracking Control of a Miniature 2-DOF Manipulator With Hydrogel Actuators by Doroudchi, Azadeh, Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Sharifzadeh, Mohammad, Li, Dongting, Berman, Spring, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…Due to the nature of the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of stimuli-responsive soft materials, closed-loop control of hydrogel-actuated mechanisms has remained…”
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Effects of Friction Anisotropy on Upward Burrowing Behavior of Soft Robots in Granular Materials by Huang, Sichuan, Tang, Yong, Bagheri, Hosain, Li, Dongting, Ardente, Alexandria, Aukes, Daniel, Marvi, Hamidreza, Tao, Junliang (Julian)

“…Skins with asymmetric kirigami scales and soft spikes are integrated to the surface of a base self‐burrowing robot, which consists of a soft one‐segment…”
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Applying graded material transitions with low-cost additive manufacturing by Brauer, Cole, Aukes, Daniel

“…Purpose Multimaterial components possess material boundaries that introduce potential points of failure. Graded material transitions can help mitigate the…”
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New Insights on the Control and Function of Octopus Suckers by Bagheri, Hosain, Hu, Anna, Cummings, Sheldon, Roy, Cayla, Casleton, Rachel, Wan, Ashley, Erjavic, Nicole, Berman, Spring, Peet, Matthew M., Aukes, Daniel M., He, Ximin, Pratt, Stephen C., Fisher, Rebecca E., Marvi, Hamid

“…Octopuses utilize their suckers for a myriad of functions such as chemo‐ and mechanosensing, exploring and manipulating objects, anchoring the body during…”
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Miniaturized Untethered Soft Robots Using Hydrogel-based Soft Voxel Actuators by Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Berman, Spring, He, Ximin, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…Current soft actuators rely on additional hardware such as pumps, high voltage supplies, light generation sources and magnetic field generators for their…”
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The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp by Mulgaonkar, Yash, Araki, Brandon, Je-sung Koh, Guerrero-Bonilla, Luis, Aukes, Daniel M., Makineni, Anurag, Tolley, Michael T., Rus, Daniela, Wood, Robert J., Kumar, Vijay

“…The agility and ease of control make a quadrotor aircraft an attractive platform for studying swarm behavior, modeling, and control. The energetics of…”
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Embedded Optical Waveguide Sensors for Dynamic Behavior Monitoring in Twisted-Beam Structures by Bupe, Paul, Jiang, Yuhao, Lin, J-T., Nguyen, Tram, Han, Michael S., Aukes, Daniel M., Harnett, C. K.

“…In this work, we present two embedded soft optical waveguide sensors designed for realtime onboard configuration sensing in soft actuators for robotic…”
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Highly stretchable self-sensing actuator based on conductive photothermally-responsive hydrogel by Lo, Chiao-Yueh, Zhao, Yusen, Kim, Cheolgyu, Alsaid, Yousif, Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Peet, Matthew, Fisher, Rebecca, Marvi, Hamid, Berman, Spring, Aukes, Daniel, He, Ximin

“…[Display omitted] Soft robots built with active soft materials have been increasingly attractive. Despite tremendous efforts in soft sensors and actuators, it…”
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Tunable Sponge‐Like Hierarchically Porous Hydrogels with Simultaneously Enhanced Diffusivity and Mechanical Properties by Alsaid, Yousif, Wu, Shuwang, Wu, Dong, Du, Yingjie, Shi, Lingxia, Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Rico, Rossana, Hua, Mutian, Yan, Yichen, Zhao, Yusen, Aukes, Daniel, He, Ximin

“…Crosslinked polymers and gels are important in soft robotics, solar vapor generation, energy storage, drug delivery, catalysis, and biosensing. However, their…”
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Dynamic Modeling of a Hydrogel-based Continuum Robotic Arm with Experimental Validation by Doroudchi, Azadeh, Khodambashiy, Roozbeh, Lafmejani, Amir Salimi, Aukes, Daniel M., Berman, Spring

“…Control of robots with soft actuators is still challenging due to the complexity of modeling actuator material dynamics in conjunction with the robot dynamics…”
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Reconfigurable Soft Flexure Hinges via Pinched Tubes by Jiang, Yuhao, Sharifzadeh, Mohammad, Aukes, Daniel M.

“…Tuning the stiffness of soft robots is essential in order to extend usability and control the maneuverability of soft robots. In this paper, we propose a novel…”
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A bio-inspired helically driven self-burrowing robot by Bagheri, Hosain, Stockwell, Daniel, Bethke, Benjamin, Okwae, Nana Kwame, Aukes, Daniel, Tao, Junliang, Marvi, Hamid

“…Autonomous subsurface applications (e.g., construction, exploration, and environmental monitoring) have created a need for burrowing mechanisms and robots…”
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