Tactile Perception for Growing Robots via Discrete Curvature Measurements

Micah Bryant,Connor Watson,Tania K. Morimoto,Micah Bryant,Connor Watson,Tania K. Morimoto

Soft, growing robots have the ability to conform to their environment and traverse highly curved paths that would typically prove challenging for other robot designs. As they navigate through these constrained and cluttered environments, there is often significant interaction between the robot and its surroundings. In this work, we propose a method to enable tactile perception for growing robots, ...