An overview of soft robotics

O Yasa, Y Toshimitsu, MY Michelis… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Soft robots' flexibility and compliance give them the potential to outperform traditional rigid-
bodied robots while performing multiple tasks in unexpectedly changing environments and …

Neural koopman pooling: Control-inspired temporal dynamics encoding for skeleton-based action recognition

X Wang, X Xu, Y Mu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Skeleton-based human action recognition is becoming increasingly important in a variety of
fields. Most existing works train a CNN or GCN based backbone to extract spatial-temporal …

Koopman operators for modeling and control of soft robotics

L Shi, Z Liu, K Karydis - Current Robotics Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We review recent advances in algorithmic development and
validation for modeling and control of soft robots leveraging the Koopman operator theory …

Sim-to-real for soft robots using differentiable fem: Recipes for meshing, damping, and actuation

M Dubied, MY Michelis, A Spielberg… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An accurate, physically-based, and differentiable model of soft robots can unlock
downstream applications in optimal control. The Finite Element Method (FEM) is an …

Multifactor sequential disentanglement via structured koopman autoencoders

N Berman, I Naiman, O Azencot - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.17264, 2023 - arxiv.org
Disentangling complex data to its latent factors of variation is a fundamental task in
representation learning. Existing work on sequential disentanglement mostly provides two …

Robust learning and control of time-delay nonlinear systems with deep recurrent Koopman operators

M Han, Z Li, X Yin, X Yin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider the problem of Koopman modeling and data-driven predictive
control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to time delays. A robust deep …

Robust learning-based control for uncertain nonlinear systems with validation on a soft robot

M Han, K Wong, J Euler-Rolle, L Zhang… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing modeling and control methods for real-world systems typically deal with uncertainty
and nonlinearity on a case-by-case basis. We present a universal and robust control …

Generative modeling of regular and irregular time series data via koopman VAEs

I Naiman, NB Erichson, P Ren, MW Mahoney… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generating realistic time series data is important for many engineering and scientific
applications. Existing work tackles this problem using generative adversarial networks …

Extracting Koopman operators for prediction and control of non-linear dynamics using two-stage learning and oblique projections

D Uchida, K Duraisamy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13051, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Koopman operator framework provides a perspective that non-linear dynamics can be
described through the lens of linear operators acting on function spaces. As the framework …

[HTML][HTML] Deep Koopman Operator-based degradation modelling

S Garmaev, O Fink - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Developing reliable health indicators for industrial assets is essential for accurate condition
monitoring, fault detection, and predicting the remaining useful lifetime. However …