Scientific reports
Jan 28, 2023
Robotic locomotion in subterranean environments is still unsolved, and it requires innovative designs and strategies to overcome the challenges of burrowing and moving in unstructured conditions with high pressure and friction at depths of a few cent...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jan 23, 2023
Millions of years of evolution have allowed animals to develop unusual locomotion capabilities. A striking example is the legless-jumping of click beetles and trap-jaw ants, which jump more than 10 times their body length. Their delicate musculoskele...
Soft robotics
Jan 17, 2023
Inchworm-inspired bionic soft crawling robot (SCR) composed of soft materials possesses preeminent active compliant deformation ability and has obvious advantages over traditional hard robots when moving in a confined space, which is up-and-coming ca...
Nature communications
Jan 12, 2023
Soft robots capable of flexible deformations and agile locomotion similar to biological systems are highly desirable for promising applications, including safe human-robot interactions and biomedical engineering. Their achievable degree of freedom an...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 9, 2023
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been widely studied for sequential decision-making problems, and substantial progress has been achieved, especially in autonomous robotic skill learning. However, it is always difficult to deploy DRL ...
Scientific reports
Jan 4, 2023
Wheels play an important role in mobile robotics, wheelchairs and vehicles and represent an ideal solution for traversing rigid ground due to higher efficiency. Through traversing loose soil, the rigid wheels lose traction because of sinking and high...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 3, 2023
Grass cutting is necessary to prevent grass from diverting essential nutrients and water from crops. Usually, in hilly and mountainous areas, grass cutting is performed on steep slopes with an inclination angle of up to 60° (inclination gradient of 1...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 15, 2022
Regardless of recent advances, humanoid robots still face significant difficulties in performing locomotion tasks. Among the key challenges that must be addressed to achieve robust bipedal locomotion are dynamically consistent motion planning, feedba...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 15, 2022
For path following of snake robots, many model-based controllers have demonstrated strong tracking abilities. However, a satisfactory performance often relies on precise modelling and simplified assumptions. In addition, visual perception is also ess...
Science robotics
Dec 14, 2022
A climbing robot that can rapidly move on diverse surfaces such as floors, walls, and ceilings will have an enlarged operational workspace compared with other terrestrial robots. However, the climbing skill of robots in such environments has been lim...