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Co-designing versatile quadruped robots for dynamic and energy-efficient motions by Fadini, Gabriele, Kumar, Shivesh, Kumar, Rohit, Flayols, Thomas, Del Prete, Andrea, Carpentier, Justin, Souères, Philippe

“…This paper presents a concurrent optimization approach for the design and motion of a quadruped in order to achieve energy-efficient cyclic behaviors…”
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An Expressiveness Hierarchy of Behavior Trees and Related Architectures by Biggar, Oliver, Zamani, Mohammad, Shames, Iman

“…In this letter, we provide a formal framework for comparing the expressive power of Behavior Trees (BTs) to other action selection architectures. Taking…”
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ROS-NetSim: A Framework for the Integration of Robotic and Network Simulators by Calvo-Fullana, Miguel, Mox, Daniel, Pyattaev, Alexander, Fink, Jonathan, Kumar, Vijay, Ribeiro, Alejandro

“…Multi-agent systems play an important role in modern robotics. Due to the nature of these systems, coordination among agents via communication is frequently…”
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Simulation Aided Co-Design for Robust Robot Optimization by Fadini, Gabriele, Flayols, Thomas, Prete, Andrea Del, Soueres, Philippe

“…This letter outlines a bi-level algorithm to concurrently optimize robot hardware and control parameters in order to minimize energy consumption during the…”
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Automated Straight-Line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics With Different Lengths by Jin, Bingchen, Kobayashi, Akinari, Bhattacharya, Dipankar, Seino, Akira, Tokuda, Fuyuki, Tien, Norman Chihnan, Kosuge, Kazuhiro

“…Different Length Alignment Sewing (DLAS), which involves stretching the shorter fabric to match the longer one and sewing them together in a straight line, is…”
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Transferability in the Automatic Off-Line Design of Robot Swarms: From Sim-to-Real to Embodiment and Design-Method Transfer Across Different Platforms by Kegeleirs, Miquel, Ramos, David Garzon, Hasselmann, Ken, Garattoni, Lorenzo, Francesca, Gianpiero, Birattari, Mauro

“…Automatic off-line design is an attractive approach to implementing robot swarms. In this approach, a designer specifies a mission to be accomplished by the…”
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Autonomous Magnetic Navigation Framework for Active Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Inspired by Conventional Colonoscopy Procedures by Xu, Yangxin, Li, Keyu, Zhao, Ziqi, Meng, Max Q.-H.

“…In recent years, simultaneous magnetic actuation and localization (SMAL) for active wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has been intensively studied to improve…”
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Reconfigurable, Multi-Material, Voxel-Based Soft Robots by Legrand, Julie, Terryn, Seppe, Roels, Ellen, Vanderborght, Bram

“…Voxel-based robots are aggregations of soft and simple building blocks that have been extensively evolved and simulated to perform various tasks, like walking,…”
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Orchestrating Method Ensembles to Adapt to Resource Requirements and Constraints During Robotic Task Execution by Lay, Florian S., Domel, Andreas, Lii, Neal Y., Stulp, Freek

“…Robot behavior designers commonly select one method - e.g. A* or RRT - that is assumed to have the appropriate trade-off for a given domain between…”
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Ensuring High Visibility of Passive Markers at Fixed Camera Gain Using Divide and Conquer Method by Retinger, Marek, Michalski, Jacek, Kozierski, Piotr, Drapikowski, Pawel

“…The letter presents a novel solution to determine exposure and threshold values for cameras in motion capture systems without excessive interaction with the…”
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The Robotarium: Automation of a Remotely Accessible, Multi-Robot Testbed by Wilson, Sean, Glotfelter, Paul, Mayya, Siddharth, Notomista, Gennaro, Emam, Yousef, Cai, Xiaoyi, Egerstedt, Magnus

“…The cost, in terms of both time and money, of instantiating a physical testbed can be prohibitive. To help resolve this issue, the Robotarium offers a free,…”
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Evolving Robotic Hand Morphology Through Grasping and Learning by Yang, Bangchu, Jiang, Li, Wu, Wenhao, Zhen, Ruichen

“…Creatures can co-evolve their biological structures and behaviors under environmental pressures. Leveraging biomimetic evolution algorithms (referred to as…”
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Minimizing torque requirements in robotic manipulation through elastic elements optimization in a physics engine by Marchal, Maxime, Marzougui, Dries, Furnémont, Raphaël, Verstraten, Tom, wyffels, Francis

“…The increasing number of robots and the rising cost of electricity have spurred research into energy-reducing concepts in robotics. One such concept, elastic…”
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A Dynamic Resistive Force Model for Designing Mobile Robot in Granular Media by Huang, Lei, Zhu, Junda, Yuan, Yufeng, Yin, Yuehong

“…Locomotion failure is the challenge for wheeled robots applied in granular media, which puts a high demand on the design of wheels. Due to a lack of a…”
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Tailoring Vacuum Artificial Muscles: A Multi-Parametric FEA-Driven Optimization and Monolithic Fabrication by Galassi, Laura, Lorenzon, Lucrezia, Pagliarani, Niccolo, Sarti, Alberto, Cianchetti, Matteo

“…Vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures (VAMPs) are a promising alternative to traditional pneumatic artificial muscles, offering uniform force…”
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FastSim: A Modular and Plug-and-Play Simulator for Aerial Robots by Cui, Can, Zhou, Xiaobin, Wang, Miao, Gao, Fei, Xu, Chao

“…State-of-the-art robotics simulators are equipped with well-established mapping, planning, and control systems. However, they lack modularity and the…”
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Granular Resistive Force Theory Implementation for Three-Dimensional Trajectories by Treers, Laura K., Cao, Cyndia, Stuart, Hannah S.

“…Modelling interaction forces as bodies intrude into granular media is a longstanding challenge in the design and control of machines that navigate and…”
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Design of Non-Circular Pulleys for Torque Generation: A Convex Optimisation Approach by Ludovico, Daniele, Guardiani, Paolo, Lasagni, Francesco, Lee, Jinoh, Cannella, Ferdinando, Caldwell, Darwin G.

“…Nowadays, robotic research focuses more and more on attaining energy-efficient and safe solutions. They are key-aspects of industrial robots, such as…”
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Maximising Tolerance to Disturbances via Combined Control-Actuation Optimisation for Robust Humanoid Robot Walking by Sathuluri, Akhil, Sartore, Carlotta, Dafarra, Stefano, Traversaro, Silvio, Zimmermann, Markus, Pucci, Daniele

“…Combined optimisation of various robot subsystems as a co-design problem has been shown to identify performant robots. However, classical optimisation methods…”
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Towards Assessing Compliant Robotic Grasping From First-Object Perspective via Instrumented Objects by Knopke, Maceon, Zhu, Liguo, Corke, Peter, Zhang, Fangyi

“…Grasping compliant objects is difficult for robots - applying too little force may cause the grasp to fail, while too much force may lead to object damage. A…”
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