Softworms: the design and control of non-pneumatic, 3D-printed, deformable robots T Umedachi, V Vikas, BA Trimmer Bioinspiration & biomimetics 11 (2), 025001, 2016 | 252 | 2016 |
Highly deformable 3-D printed soft robot generating inching and crawling locomotions with variable friction legs T Umedachi, V Vikas, BA Trimmer 2013 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2013 | 207 | 2013 |
Fully decentralized control of a soft-bodied robot inspired by true slime mold T Umedachi, K Takeda, T Nakagaki, R Kobayashi, A Ishiguro Biological cybernetics 102, 261-269, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
Design of a 3D-printed soft robot with posture and steering control T Umedachi, BA Trimmer 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2874-2879, 2014 | 83 | 2014 |
Gait control in a soft robot by sensing interactions with the environment using self-deformation T Umedachi, T Kano, A Ishiguro, BA Trimmer Royal Society open science 3 (12), 160766, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
Exploring behaviors of caterpillar-like soft robots with a central pattern generator-based controller and reinforcement learning M Ishige, T Umedachi, T Taniguchi, Y Kawahara Soft robotics 6 (5), 579-594, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
Design of frictional 2D-anisotropy surface for wriggle locomotion of printable soft-bodied robots TD Ta, T Umedachi, Y Kawahara 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6779-6785, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
Continuum robotic caterpillar with wirelessly powered shape memory alloy actuators C Mc Caffrey, T Umedachi, W Jiang, T Sasatani, Y Narusue, R Niiyama, ... Soft robotics 7 (6), 700-710, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
Caterpillar-inspired crawling robot using both compression and bending deformations T Umedachi, M Shimizu, Y Kawahara IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4 (2), 670-676, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
A fluid-filled soft robot that exhibits spontaneous switching among versatile spatiotemporal oscillatory patterns inspired by the true slime mold T Umedachi, R Idei, K Ito, A Ishiguro Artificial life 19 (1), 67-78, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
True-slime-mould-inspired hydrostatically coupled oscillator system exhibiting versatile behaviours T Umedachi, R Idei, K Ito, A Ishiguro Bioinspiration & biomimetics 8 (3), 035001, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
Origami robots with flexible printed circuit sheets D Lee, K Saito, T Umedachi, TD Ta, Y Kawahara Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 …, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
Fluid-filled soft-bodied amoeboid robot inspired by plasmodium of true slime mold T Umedachi, R Idei, T Nakagaki, R Kobayashi, A Ishiguro Advanced Robotics 26 (7), 693-707, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
Autonomous decentralized control for soft-bodied caterpillar-like modular robot exploiting large and continuum deformation T Umedachi, BA Trimmer 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
A fully decentralized morphology control of an amoeboid robot by exploiting the law of conservation of protoplasmic mass A Ishiguro, T Umedachi, T Kitamura, T Nakagaki, R Kobayashi Proceedings of IROS: Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Systems, and Applications, 2008 | 15 | 2008 |
Development of a Real-Time Tunable Spring–Toward Independent Control of Position and Stiffness of Joints– T Umedachi, Y Yamada, A Ishiguro Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 19 (1), 27-33, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
Soft-bodied amoeba-inspired robot that switches between qualitatively different behaviors with decentralized stiffness control T Umedachi, K Ito, A Ishiguro Adaptive behavior 23 (2), 97-108, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
Learning oscillator-based gait controller for string-form soft robots using parameter-exploring policy gradients M Ishige, T Umedachi, T Taniguchi, Y Kawahara 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
A soft deformable amoeboid robot inspired by plasmodium of true slime mold T Umedachi, K Takeda, T Nakagaki, R Kobayashi, A Ishiguro International Journal of Unconventional Computing 7 (6), 449-462, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
A development of a fully self-contained real-time tunable spring T Umedachi, A Ishiguro 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2006 | 11 | 2006 |