Motion Planning for Soft Robots

Motion Planning for Soft Robots

We examine a particular class of inflated-beam soft growing robots called “vine robots”, and present a dynamics simulator that captures general behaviors, handles robot-object interactions, and runs faster than real time. The simulator framework uses a simplified multi-link, rigid-body model with contact constraints.

We are currently working on expanding the dynamics model and integrating the simulator framework with motion planning strategies.

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2021
May
PDF A Dynamics Simulator for Soft Growing Robots
Rianna Jitosho, Nathaniel Agharese, Allison Okamura, and Zac Manchester
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Xi'an, China.

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Rianna Jitosho
Motion Planning for Soft Robots
Zac Manchester
Assistant Professor
Last updated: 2021-01-14