Scuola Superiore Di Studi Universitari E Di Perfezionamento Sant'anna

Toyota Motor Europe

Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia

Toyota Motor Europe Nv/sa

Scuola Superiore Santanna

Cecilia Laschi

Paolo Dario

Barbara Mazzolai

Andrea Arienti

Jonas Ambeck-Madsen

Hiromichi Yanagihara

Luca Ascari

Maurizio Follador

Paolo Corradi

Matteo Cianchetti

Marcello Calisti

Michele Giorelli

Ulisse Bertocchi

Syed Taimoor Hassan Shah

Francesco Fornai

Giacomo Saviozzi

A robotic limb is described. The robotic limb has a closed tubular casing made of viscoelastic material defining a chamber containing an incompressible fluid. The closed tubular casing has a sheath formed by substantially inextensible intertwined wires. In the chamber there are groups of transverse actuators axially spaced from each other, connected to the sheath and adapted to reversibly contract the closed tubular casing at least partly in the radial direction. The robotic limb also has longitudinal actuators adapted to reversibly contract the closed tubular casing at least partly in the axial direction being connected to each of the groups of transverse actuators.

Bio-inspired continuous robotic limb

A robot having an overall structure inspired by theis described. The robot has soft arms joined in a radial manner to a central support. The soft arms have the capability of lengthening, shortening and wrapping around in a coil-shape manner. The extremely simple movements and coordination of the soft arms are effective because of the interaction between the single actions. For example during locomotion, while some arms act as a support for stability, the others provide for thrusting allowing the robot to advance. Once near the target, some arms provide for stability whereas the others can bend so as to wrap around and transport external entities.

Robot having soft arms for locomotion and grip purposes

A method () of processing signal outputs of a plurality of topologically distinct sensors in response to stimuli is described. The method comprises obtaining () a plurality of temporal sensor outputs in parallel. Thereafter, features are extracted (), the features having dynamic behavior pattern. The extraction is performed in a topology consistent way by arithmetic processing in parallel of neighboring temporal sensor outputs. Furthermore, a quality of the extracted features is being determined.

Methods and systems for data processing and their applications

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Cecilia Laschi