Abstract: The jamming mechanism is a crucial method to tune the stiffness of soft-bodied machines to adapt to their surroundings. However, it is difficult for the present jamming structures to integrate them into systems with ...

Abstract: In the narrow and irregular environment of the ruins, the existing rescue robots are struggling to achieve their performance. Inspired by the process of termite predation by giant anteaters, we propose a soft rescue robot ...

Abstract: Hybrid analog/digital control of bilateral teleoperation systems can lead to superior performance (transparency) while maintaining stability compared to pure analog or digital control methods. Such hybrid control is ...