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A Soft Robot That Navigates Its Environment Through Growth

E. W. Hawkes, L. H. Blumenschein, J. D. Greer and A. M. Okamura

In Science Robotics 2(8) 2017

DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan3028

Modeling of Bioinspired Apical Extension in a Soft Robot

L. H. Blumenschein, A. M. Okamura and E. W. Hawkes

In Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2017, pp. 522-531

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_45

Pneumatic Reel Actuator: Design, Modeling, and Implementation

Z. M. Hammond, N. S. Usevitch, E. W. Hawkes and S. Follmer

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2017, pp. 626-633

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989078

Design of a Soft Catheter for Low-Force and Constrained Surgery

P. Slade, A Gruebele, Z. Hammond, M. Raitor, A. M. Okamura and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017, pp. 174-180

DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202154

Series Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (sPAMs) and Application to a Soft Continuum Robot

J. D. Greer, T. K. Morimoto, A. M. Okamura and E. W Hawkes

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2017, pp. 5503-5510

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989648

Obstacle-Aided Navigation of a Soft Growing Robot

J. D. Greer, L. H. Blumenschein, A. M. Okamura and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, pp. 4165-4172

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.20188460777

A Tip-Extending Soft Robot Enables Reconfigurable and Deployable Antennas

L. H. Blumenschein, L. Gan, J. Fan, A. M. Okamura and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2018, 3(2): 949-956

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2793303

HapWRAP: Soft Growing Wearable Haptic Device

N. Agharese, T. Cloyd, L. H. Blumenschein, M. Raitor, E. W. Hawkes, H. Culbertson and A. M. Okamura

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, pp. 5466-5472

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460891

Helical actuation on a soft inflated robot body

L. H. Blumenschein, N.S. Usevitch, B. Do and E. W. Hawkes and A. M. Okamura

In IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2018, pp. 245-252

DOI: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404927

Soft Robotic Burrowing Device with Tip-Extension and Granular Fluidization

N. D. Naclerio, C. M. Hubicki, Y. O. Aydin, D. I. Goldman and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE/RSJ Internation Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, pp. 5918-5923

DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593530

Development and Evaluation of an Intuitive Flexible Interface for Teleoperating Soft Growing Robots

H. El-Hussieny, U. Mehmood, Z. Mehdi, S. Jeong, M. Usman, E. W. Hawkes, A. M. Okamura and J. Ryu

In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, pp. 4995-5002

DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593896

Dynamic Modeling of A Class of Soft Growing Robots Using Euler-Lagrange Formalism

H. El-Hussieny, U. Mehmood, S. G. Jeong and J. Ryu

In IEEE International Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) 2019

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Eversion and Retraction of a Soft Robot Towards the Exploration of Coral Reefs

J. Luong, P. Glick, A. Ong, M.S. deVries, S. Sandin, E.W. Hawkes and M.T. Tolley

In IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2019, pp. 801-807

DOI: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2019.8722730

Nutation Aids Heterogeneous Substrate Exploration in a Robophysical Root

Y. Ozkan-Aydin, M. Murray-Cooper, E. Aydin, E.N. McCaskey, N. Naclerio, E.W. Hawkes and D.I. Goldman

In IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2019, pp. 172-177

DOI: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2019.8722717

Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration

M. M. Coad, L. H. Blumenschein, S. Cutler, J. A. Reyna, N. D. Naclerio, H. El-Hussieny, U. Mehmood, J. Ryu, E. W. Hawkes and A. M. Okamura

In IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 2019, pp. 2-14

DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2947538

Characterizing environmental interactions for soft growing robots

D. A.Haggerty, N. D. Naclerio and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019, pp. 3335-3342

DOI: 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968137

A Soft, Steerable Continuum Robot That Grows via Tip Extension

J. D. Greer, T. K. Morimoto, A. M. Okamura and E. W. Hawkes

In Soft Robotics 6(1) 2019, pp. 95-108

DOI: 10.1089/soro.2018.0034

Simple, Low-Hysteresis, Foldable, Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

N. D. Naclerio and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2) 2020, pp. 3406-3413

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2976309

Robust navigation of a soft growing robot by exploiting contact with the environment

J. D. Greer, L. H. Blumenschein, R. Alterovitz, E. W. Hawkes and A. M. Okamura

In The International Journal of Robotics Research 2020

DOI: 10.1177/0278364920903774

3D Electromagnetic Reconfiguration Enabled by Soft Continuum Robots

L. T. Gan, L. H. Blumenschein, Z. Huang, A. M. Okamura, E. W. Hawkes and J. A. Fan

In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2) 2020, pp. 1704-1711

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2969922

Retraction of Soft Growing Robots Without Buckling

M. M. Coad, R. P. Thompson, L. H. Blumenschein, N. S. Usevitch, E. W. Hawkes and A. M. Okamura

In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2) 2020, pp. 2115-2122

DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2970629

A Dexterous Tip-extending Robot with Variable-length Shape-locking

S. Wang, R. Zhang, D. A. Haggerty, N. D. Naclerio and E. W. Hawkes

2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 9035-9041

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197311

Design and Modeling of Soft Growing Robots

L. H. Blumenschein

Stanford University 2019

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13335762

An obstacle-interaction planning method for navigation of actuated vine robots

M. Selvaggio, L. A. Ramirez, N. D. Naclerio, B. Siciliano and E. W. Hawkes

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 3227-3233

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196587

Dynamically Reconfigurable Discrete Distributed Stiffness for Inflated Beam Robots

B. H. Do, V. Banashek, A. M. Okamura

2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 9050-9056

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197237

Geometric Solutions for General Actuator Routing on Inflated-Beam Soft Growing Robots

L. H. Blumenschein, M.Koehler, N. S. Usevitch, E. W. Hawkes, D. C. Rucker, A. M. Okamura

In ArXiv 2020

arXiv:2006.06117

In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021

DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2021.3115230

Human Interface for Teleoperated Object Manipulation with a Soft Growing Robot

F. Stroppa, M. Luo, K. Yoshida, M. M. Coad, L. H. Blumenschein and A. M. Okamura

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 726-732

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197094

Upper Extremity Exomuscle for Shoulder Abduction Support

C. Simpson, B. Huerta, S. Sketch, M. Lansberg, E. Hawkes and A. Okamura

In IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 474-484, Aug. 2020

DOI: 10.1109/TMRB.2020.3012471

Design, Modeling, Control, and Application of Everting Vine Robots

L. H. Blumenschein, M. M. Coad, D. A. Haggerty, A. M. Okamura, and E. W. Hawkes

In Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020, p. 153

DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.548266