Publications

2026

Physical Coupling for Collaboration in Heterogeneous Robot Teams

S. Singh, J. Ferlazzo, S. Wang, S. N. Boateng, M. O. Martinez, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RAL

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3655268

2026

Transport and Delivery of Objects With a Soft Everting Robot

E. M. DeVries, J. Ferlazzo, M. Ugur, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RAL

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3655537

2026

Parallel Simulation of Contact and Actuation for Soft Growing Robots

Y. Gao, L. Chen, P. Bhovad, S. Wang, Z. Kingston, and L. H. Blumenschein

Soft Robotics

Published in:

doi: 10.1177/21695172261425906

2025

Analyzing the Effects of Wire Routing in Soft-Growing Robots

E. M. DeVries, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020921

2025

Physics-Grounded Differentiable Simulation for Soft Growing Robots

L. Chen, Y. Gao, S. Wang, F. Fuentes, L. H. Blumenschein, Z. Kingston

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020809

2024

A survey of communicating robot learning during human-robot interaction

S. Habiban, A. Alvarez Valdivia, L. H. Blumenschein, D. P. Losey

IJRR

Published in:

doi: 10.1177/02783649241281369

2024

Heterogenous Collaboration: A new approach for search and rescue operations

S. N. Boateng, S. Singh, M. Ugur, S. Wang, M. Kramer, I. Osei, O. Sobek, M. O. Martinez, F. Z. Temel, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE SSRR

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/SSRR62954.2024.10770037

2024

Adaptation and Training Effects from a Passive, Wearable Resistance Device During Exercise

E. Frias-Miranda, H. A. Nguyen, J. Hampton, T. A. Jones, B. Spotts, M. Cochran, D. D. Chan, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE BioRob

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/BioRob60516.2024.10719863

2024

Refined Modeling for Serial Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Enables Model-Based Actuation Design

S. Wang, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10521996

2024

Soft Growing Pin for High-Extension Shape-Changing Displays

A. Alvarez Valdivia, M. A. Rezqalla, S. E. Swann, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10522001

2024

Physics-Informed Neural Network for Scalable Soft Multi-Actuator Systems

C. A. Mendenhall, J. Hardan, T. J. Chiang, L. H. Blumenschein, A. B. Tepole

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10522053

2023

Vine Robot Localization Via Collision

E. Frias-Miranda, A. Srivastava, S. Wang, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE IROS

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342238

2023

Mapping Unknown Environments through Passive Deformation of Soft, Growing Robots

F. Fuentes, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE IROS

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341705

2023

Perception of and Response to a Haptic Device as a Function of Signal Complexity

A. Alvarez Valdivia, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE World Haptics Conference

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224490

2023

Deployable Robotic Structures via Passive Rigidity on A Soft, Growing Robot

F. Fuentes, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122104

2023

The Folded Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (foldPAM): Towards Programmability and Control via End Geometry

S. Wang, E. Frias-Miranda

IEEE RAL

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3238160

2022

A Geometric Design Approach for Continuum Robots by Piecewise Approximation of Freeform Shapes

S. Wang, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE IROS

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981430

2022

Wrapped Haptic Display for Communicating Physical Robot Learning

A. Alvarez Valdivia, R. Shailly, N. Seth, F. Fuentes, D. P. Losey, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RoboSoft

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.9762210

2022

Characterization of Soft 3D Printed Actuators for Parallel Networks

S. Khetan, L. H. Blumenschein

IEEE RAL

Published in:

doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3155807