Happy New Year
The whole DEFROST team wishes you a happy new year 2020. Let’s make a place for soft robots in this world!
Stiffness Control of Deformable Robots Using Finite Element Modeling
Stiffness Control of Deformable Robots Using Finite Element Modeling M. Koehler, A.M. Okamura and C. Duriez Abstract. Due to the complexity of modeling deformable materials and infinite degrees of freedom, the rich background of rigid robot control has not been transferred to soft robots. Thus, most model-based control techniques developed…
Motion Control of Cable-Driven Continuum Catheter Robot through Contacts
Motion Control of Cable-Driven Continuum Catheter Robot through Contacts Z. Zhang, J. Dequidt, J. Back, H. Liu, and C. Duriez Abstract. Benefiting from the deformability of soft robots, calibration and force sensing for soft robots are possible using an external vision-based system, instead of embedded mechatronic force sensors. In this…
Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera
Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera Z. Zhang, A. Petit, J. Dequidt, and C. Duriez Abstract Benefiting from the deformability of soft robots, calibration and force sensing for soft robots are possible using an external vision-based system, instead of embedded mechatronic force sensors. In…
Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera
Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera Z. Zhang, A. Petit, J. Dequidt, and C. Duriez Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new framework of external force sensing for soft robots based on the fusion of vision-based measurements and Finite Element Model (FEM) techniques.…
Postdoctoral position: Optimal design for soft robotics [CLOSED]
This position will be undertaken within the DEFROST and the NON-A research groups. About Inria and the job Inria is a research institute dedicated to promoting ‘scientific excellence in the service of technology transfer and society as a whole’. Inria employs a staff of 2700, drawn from the world’s most…
Internship proposal: Generative 3D Modeling for Soft-Robotics
Generative 3D Modeling for Soft-Robotics Short description This internship proposal concerns students from second year of master degree, interested in a research internship. The main goal of the internship to develop a prototype of an interactive modeling tool to ease the design of soft-robots. The tool will rely on framework…
Contribution paper at MICCAI 2016
Olivier Goury will be present in Athens for the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer assisted intervention (MICCAI 2016), October 17th-21st 2016. He will be presenting the paper : Numerical Simulation of Cochlear-Implant Surgery: Towards Patient-Specific Planning. Paper
Contribution papers at IROS 2016
The Defrost team will be present at the conference IROS 2016 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) that will be held in Daejeon, Korea in October 9-14 with 2 papers untitled : Kinematic Modeling and Observer Based Control of Soft Robot using Real-Time Finite Element Method and Stiffness rendering…
Post-doctoral Position: Deformable robot design optimization [OPEN]
Job offer description Context : In contrast to rigid robots, the kinematic behavior of deformable robot is not fixed during the design process. Any change (choice of material, addition of a sensor, addition of any other component, etc) could result in a change of the deformation behavior. Moreover, the relationship…