Biomimetic and Soft Robots

K Carpenter, A Thoesen, D Mick, J Martia, M Cable, K Mitchell, S. Hovsepian, J. Jasper, N. Georgiev, R. Thakker, A. Kourchians, B. Wilcox, M. Yip, and H. Marvi.

ARCSnake: An Archimedes' Screw-Propelled, Reconfigurable Robot Snake for Complex Environments

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

D.A. Schreiber*, F. Richter*, A. Bilan**, P.V. Gavrilov**, H. M. Lam**, C.H. Price**, K.C. Carpenter, M.C. Yip;

Robotic Artificial Muscles: Current Progress and Future Perspectives

Biomimetic and Soft Robots Catherine 0

J. Zhang, J. Sheng, C.T. O'Neill, C. J. Walsh, R. J. Wood, JH. Ryu, J.P Desai, M.C. Yip

Model-free Visual Control for Continuum Robot Manipulators via Orientation Adaptation

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Image-guided Surgery, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

M Verghese, F Richter, A Gunn, P Weissbrod, M Yip

Variable-Stiffness Robot Orthosis enables Dynamic Activities in Limb-salvage Veterans

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

T. West, A. Lucas, R. Nayak, A. Liang, J. Collins, R. Miltenberger, T. Kingsbury, M. Wyatt, M. Yip

Three-dimensional hysteresis compensation enhances accuracy of robotic artificial muscles

Augmented and Virtual Reality, Biomimetic and Soft Robots Catherine 0

J. Zhang, A. Simeonov and M. C. Yip

Bundled Super-Coiled Polymer Artificial Muscles: Design, Characterization, and Modeling

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

A. Simeonov, T. Henderson, Z. Lan, G. Sundar, A. Factor, J. Zhang and M. C. Yip

Autonomous Control of Continuum Robot Manipulators for Complex Cardiac Ablation Tasks

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Haptics and Teleoperation, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

M. Yip, J. Sganga, D. Camarillo

Robot Control of Endoscopic Instruments using Flexible Polymer Sheath

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

Aaron Gunn, Mrinal Verghese, Wesly Wong, Phil Weissbrod, M. Yip

Screw-propelled endoscopic robot

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

Kevin Cheng, Andrew Saad, Dmitrii Votintcev, Elaine Tanaka, Michael Yip

Three-dimensional hysteresis modeling of robotic artificial muscles with application to shape memory alloy actuators

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

J. Zhang and M. C. Yip

Modeling and Inverse Compensation of Hysteresis in Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscles

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

J. Zhang, K. Iyer, A. Simeonov and M. C. Yip

Three-Dimensional Hysteresis Modeling of Robotic Artificial Muscles with Application to Shape Memory Alloy Actuators

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

J. Zhang, M. Yip

Model-less Hybrid Position/Force Control: A Minimalist Approach to Continuum Manipulator Control in Unknown Environments | Won the 2016 Best Paper Award for all IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Haptics and Teleoperation, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

M. Yip and D. Camarillo

Designing Muscle-Powered Robotics using Super-coiled Polymers

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

J. Zhang and M. Yip

High-Performance Robotic Muscles from Conductive Nylon Sewing Thread | Best paper award finalist

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Robot Design Catherine 0

M. Yip and G. Niemeyer

Model-less Control of a Flexible Robotic Catheter | Best paper award.

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

M. Yip, P. Wang, and D. Camarillo

Model-less Feedback Control of Continuum Manipulators in Constrained Environments

Biomimetic and Soft Robots, Surgical Robots Catherine 0

M. Yip and D. Camarillo

SuPerPM: A Large Deformation-Robust Surgical Perception Framework Based on Deep Point Matching Learned from Physical Constrained Simulation Data

Accepted in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

Mobility Analysis of Screw-Based Locomotion and Propulsion in Various Media

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7317-7323 (2023).

Design and Mechanics of Cable-Driven Rolling Diaphragm Transmission for High-Transparency Robotic Motion

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7338-7344 (2023).

Mobility Analysis of Screw-Based Locomotion and Propulsion in Various Media

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7317-7323 (2023).

Tracking Snake-like Robots in the Wild Using Only a Single Camera

J Lu, F Richter, S Lin, MC Yip

Scalable tactile sensor arrays on flexible substrates with high spatiotemporal resolution enabling slip and grip for closed-loop robotics

H. Oh, G.C. Yi, M.C. Yip, S.A. Dayeh

Data-driven Actuator Selection for Artificial Muscle-Powered Robots

T. Henderson, Y. Zhi, A. Liu, M.C. Yip

ARCSnake: Reconfigurable Snake-Like Robot with Archimedean Screw Propulsion for Multi-Domain Mobility

F. Richter*, P. V. Gavrilov* and H. M. Lam* and A. Degani and M. C. Yip

Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS)

K Carpenter, A Thoesen, D Mick, J Martia, M Cable, K Mitchell, S. Hovsepian, J. Jasper, N. Georgiev, R. Thakker, A. Kourchians, B. Wilcox, M. Yip, and H. Marvi.

ARCSnake: An Archimedes' Screw-Propelled, Reconfigurable Robot Snake for Complex Environments

D.A. Schreiber*, F. Richter*, A. Bilan**, P.V. Gavrilov**, H. M. Lam**, C.H. Price**, K.C. Carpenter, M.C. Yip;

ARCSnake: An Archimedes’ Screw-Propelled, Reconfigurable Robot Snake for Complex Environments