Soft Robotics

Soft robots can utilize deformations to deliver functionalities. Our recent work published in ICRA 2021 proposes a new HAV design, wherein the vehicle switches between a quadrotor mode and a fixed wing mode via a compliant bistable mechanism that deploys wings without requiring any additional actuators for reconfiguration beyond those included for normal flight.

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[1] Li, Xuan, Jessica McWilliams, Minchen Li, Cynthia Sung, and Chenfanfu Jiang. “Soft hybrid aerial vehicle via bistable mechanism.” In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7107-7113. IEEE, 2021.