Scalable Simulation and Demonstration of Jumping Piezoelectric 2-D Soft Robots

Zhiwu Zheng,Prakhar Kumar,Yenan Chen,Hsin Cheng,Sigurd Wagner,Minjie Chen,Naveen Verma,James C. Sturm,Zhiwu Zheng,Prakhar Kumar,Yenan Chen,Hsin Cheng,Sigurd Wagner,Minjie Chen,Naveen Verma,James C. Sturm

Soft robots have drawn great interest due to their ability to take on a rich range of shapes and motions, compared to traditional rigid robots. However, the motions, and underlying statics and dynamics, pose significant challenges to forming well-generalized and robust models necessary for robot design and control. In this work, we demonstrate a five-actuator soft robot capable of complex motions ...