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Kushaan Misra
dblp:293/9790
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot navigation and mapping · 56% Robot manipulation · 44% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
mobile robot navigation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating · ICRA 2023 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation
soft robotics |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating · ICRA 2023 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping › target tracking
robot tracking |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating · ICRA 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
microwave heating · 0.7liquid crystal elastomer actuation · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless HeatingabstractRecent work on battery-free soft robotics has demonstrated the use of liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) to build shape-changing materials activated by applied external heat. However, sources of heat must typically be in direct field-of-view of the robot (i.e. NIR, laser, and visual light EM sources or convective heats guns), be tethered to an external power supply (i.e. thermoelectric heating or resistive joule heaters), or require a heavy on-board battery that limits mobility and range. This paper presents a novel battery-free soft-robotics platform that can crawl through confined, enclosed, and hard-to-reach spaces (e.g. packages, machinery, pipes, etc.), hidden from view of heating infrastructure. This is achieved through the co-design of a soft robotics platform and integrated soft conductive traces that enable wireless (microwave) heating through remote stimulation. We achieve fast actuation through a careful choice of materials and the overall mechanical structure of the robot to maximize heating efficiency. Further, the robot is actively tracked through enclosed spaces using a mm Wave radar to direct heat to its location. We provide a detailed evaluation on the robot's heating efficiency, location-tracking accuracy and crawling speed. Yiwen Song, Mason Zadan, Kushaan Misra, Zefang Li, Carmel Majidi, Swarun Kumar |
ICRA | 3 |