Media

Increasing the Payload Capacity of Soft Robot Arms by Localized Stiffening

This is one of the accompanying videos for our paper entitled "Increasing the Payload Capacity of Soft Robot Arms by Localized Stiffening," by Daniel Bruder, Moritz Graule, Clark Teeple, and Robert J. Wood. It shows how antagonistic stiffening can increase the robot's force output. [pdf]

The Chain-link Actuator

This is the accompanying video for our paper entitled "The Chain-link Actuator: Exploiting the Bending Stiffness of McKibben Artificial Muscles to Achieve Larger Contraction Ratios," by Daniel Bruder and Robert J. Wood. [pdf]

Advantages of Bilinear Koopman Realizations for Modeling and Control

This is the accompanying video for our paper entitled "Advantages of Bilinear Koopman Realizations for the Modeling and Control of Systems with Unknown Dynamics," by Daniel Bruder, Xun Fu, and Ram Vasudevan. [pdf]

DIY Ventilator Using Common Medical Supplies

To help address the ventilator shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I developed a makeshift ventilator prototype that can be assembled primarily from readily available hospital equipment and requires no custom fabrication of parts. This video shows a timelapse of the device being assembled. [Instructable]

Koopman-based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator Under Variable Loading Conditions

This is the accompanying video for our paper entitled "Koopman-based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator Under Variable Loading Conditions," by Daniel Bruder, Xun Fu, R. Brent Gillespie, C. David Remy, and Ram Vasudevan. [pdf]

Emulating Duration, Curvature of Coral Snake Anti-predator Behaviors Using a Soft-robotic Platform

This is the accompanying video for our recently accepted ICRA 2020 paper entitled, "Emulating Duration, Curvature of Coral Snake Anti-predator Behaviors Using a Soft-robotic Platform," by Shannon Danforth, Margaret Kohler, Daniel Bruder, Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Sridhar Kota, Ram Vasudevan, and Talia Y. Moore. [pdf]

Robotics: Science and Systems Spotlight Talk

This is the spotlight talk I gave at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference about our work on controlling soft robots. The corresponding paper was a finalist for the Best Systems Paper and Best Student Paper awards.

Modeling and Control of Soft Robots Using Koopman Operator Theory

This is the accompanying video for our RSS 2019 paper entitled "Modeling and Control of Soft Robots Using the Koopman Operator and Model Predictive Control," by Daniel Bruder, R. Brent Gillespie, C. David Remy, and Ram Vasudevan. [pdf]

Nonlinear System Identification of Soft Robot Dynamics

This is the accompanying video for our ICRA 2019 paper entitled, "Nonlinear System Identification of Soft Robot Dynamics Using Koopman Operator Theory," by Daniel Bruder, C. David Remy, and Ram Vasudevan. [pdf]

Engineering 100: Designs in Nature and Engineering

This video showcases the course for which I was a GSI entitled, "Engineering 100: Designs in Nature and Engineering." For their final project, student teams designed and built remote-controlled robots to pick up ping-pong balls and other objects.

Model-Based Control of Fiber-Reinforced Elastofluidic Enclosures

This is the accompanying video for our submission to ICRA 2017 entitled, "Model Based Control of Fiber Reinforced Elastofluidic Enclosures," by Daniel Bruder, Audrey Sedal, Joshua Bishop-Moser, Sridhar Kota, and Ram Vasudevan. [pdf]