Michael Thomas Tolley

According to our database, Michael Thomas Tolley authored at least 59 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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2024

The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight.

Paul E. Glick, J. Bob Balaram, Michael Ruvimovich Davidson, Elizabeth Lyons, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2024

Data-driven Model Reduction for Soft Robots via Lagrangian Operator Inference.

Harsh Sharma, Iman Adibnazari, Jacobo Cervera-Torralba, Michael Thomas Tolley, Boris Kramer

CoRR, 2024

Scalable Arrays of Pneumatic Sensors for Multitouch Soft Skins.

Xiaoran Zha, Saurabh Jadhav, Iman Adibnazari, Yichen Zhai, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2024

A Soft Robotic Wrist Orthosis Using Textile Pneumatic Actuators For Passive Rehabilitation.

Anoush Sepehri, Samuel Ward, Michael Thomas Tolley, Tania K. Morimoto

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2024

Lost-Core Injection Molding of Fluidic Elastomer Actuators for the Fabrication of a Modular Eel-Inspired Soft Robot.

Jacobo Cervera-Torralba, Yuxiang Kang, Eesa M. Khan, Iman Adibnazari, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2024

2023

Scalable Fluidic Matrix Circuits for Controlling Large Arrays of Individually Addressable Actuators.

Saurabh Jadhav, Paul E. Glick, Michael Ishida, Christian Chan, Iman Adibnazari, Jürgen P. Schulze, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

Adv. Intell. Syst., August, 2023

Toward Robotic Sensing and Swimming in Granular Environments using Underactuated Appendages.

Shivam Chopra, Drago Vasile, Saurabh Jadhav, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish

Adv. Intell. Syst., August, 2023

Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits.

Yichen Zhai, Albert De Boer, Jiayao Yan, Benjamin Shih, Martin Faber, Joshua Speros, Rohini Gupta, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, June, 2023

Directionally Compliant Legs Enabling Crevasse Traversal in Small Ground-Based Robots.

Emily Lathrop, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish

Adv. Intell. Syst., April, 2023

Controlling the motion of gas-lubricated adhesive disks using multiple vibration sources.

Chengzhe Jia, Sankaran Ramanarayanan, Antonio L. Sanchez, Michael Thomas Tolley

Frontiers Robotics AI, February, 2023

Actively Learning Reinforcement Learning: A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach.

Mohammad S. Ramadan, Mahmoud A. Hayajnh, Michael Thomas Tolley, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis

CoRR, 2023

Continuous Skin Eversion Enables an Untethered Soft Robot to Burrow in Granular Media.

Korkut Eken, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2023

2022

Combining Suction and Friction to Stabilize a Soft Gripper to Shear and Normal Forces, for Manipulation of Soft Objects in Wet Environments.

Jessica A. Sandoval, Thomas Xu, Iman Adibnazari, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

Locomotion via Active Suction in a Sea Star-Inspired Soft Robot.

Michael Ishida, Jessica A. Sandoval, Sebastian David Lee, Sidney Huen, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

Power Amplification for Jumping Soft Robots Actuated by Artificial Muscles.

Adriane Fernandes Minori, Saurabh Jadhav, Haojin Chen, Samantha Fong, Michael Thomas Tolley

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

Branching Vine Robots for Unmapped Environments.

Paul E. Glick, Iman Adibnazari, Dylan Drotman, Donald Ruffatto, Michael Thomas Tolley

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

Anisotropic Forces for a Worm-Inspired Digging Robot.

Dylan Drotman, Shivam Chopra, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2022

Open-loop printing of liquid metal for the low-cost rapid fabrication of soft sensors.

Junda Chen, Benjamin Shih, Iman Adibnazari, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2022

2021

Hard questions for soft robotics.

Elliot W. Hawkes, Carmel Majidi, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2021

Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots.

Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, David Sharp, Christian Chan, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2021

Gas-Lubricated Vibration-Based Adhesion for Robotics.

William P. Weston-Dawkes, Iman Adibnazari, Yi-Wen Hu, Michael Everman, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

Adv. Intell. Syst., 2021

2020

Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots.

Benjamin Shih, Dylan S. Shah, Jinxing Li, Thomas George Thuruthel, Yong-Lae Park, Fumiya Iida, Zhenan Bao, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2020

High Strength Inflatable Pouch Anchors.

Paul Glick, Dylan Drotman, Donald Ruffatto, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2020

Granular Jamming Feet Enable Improved Foot-Ground Interactions for Robot Mobility on Deformable Ground.

Shivam Chopra, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2020

Classification of components of affective touch using rapidly-manufacturable soft sensor skins.

Benjamin Shih, Emily Lathrop, Iman Adibnazari, Ricky Martin, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2020

Shear Strengthened Granular Jamming Feet for Improved Performance over Natural Terrain.

Emily Lathrop, Iman Adibnazari, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2020

Versatile rotary actuators for small-scale robotic systems.

Iman Adibnazari, Byung Jun Jeon, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2020

Robust capture of unknown objects with a highly under-actuated gripper.

Paul E. Glick, Nikko Van Crey, Michael Thomas Tolley, Donald Ruffatto

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019

Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks.

Benjamin Shih, Cecilia Laschi, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2019

Soft Robot Actuation Strategies for Locomotion in Granular Substrates.

Daniel Ortiz, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2019

Morphing Structure for Changing Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Soft Underwater Walking Robot.

Michael Ishida, Dylan Drotman, Benjamin Shih, Mark Hermes, Mitul Luhar, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2019

Design Considerations for 3D Printed, Soft, Multimaterial Resistive Sensors for Soft Robotics.

Benjamin Shih, Caleb Christianson, Kyle Gillespie, Sebastian David Lee, Jason Mayeda, Zhaoyuan Huo, Michael Thomas Tolley

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2019

Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robot Driven by Fluid Electrode Dielectric Organic Robotic Actuators.

Caleb Christianson, Christopher Bayag, Guorui Li, Saurabh Jadhav, Ayush Giri, Chibuike Agba, Tiefeng Li, Michael Thomas Tolley

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2019

Eversion and Retraction of a Soft Robot Towards the Exploration of Coral Reefs.

Jamie Luong, Paul Glick, Aaron C. Ong, Maya S. deVries, Stuart Sandin, Elliot W. Hawkes, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2019

2018

An End-to-End Approach to Self-Folding Origami Structures.

Byoungkwon An, Shuhei Miyashita, Aaron C. Ong, Michael Thomas Tolley, Martin L. Demaine, Erik D. Demaine, Robert J. Wood, Daniela Rus

IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2018

Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators.

Nathaniel N. Goldberg, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Shengqiang Cai, Michael Thomas Tolley

Sci. Robotics, 2018

Long-Duration Surface Anchoring With a Hybrid Electrostatic and Gecko-Inspired Adhesive.

Donald Ruffatto, Paul Glick, Michael Thomas Tolley, Aaron Parness

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2018

A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive.

Paul Glick, Srinivasan A. Suresh, Donald Ruffatto, Mark R. Cutkosky, Michael Thomas Tolley, Aaron Parness

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2018

3D printed resistive soft sensors.

Benjamin Shih, Jason Mayeda, Zhaoyuan Huo, Caleb Christianson, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2018

2017

Towards rapid mechanical customization of cm-scale self-folding agents.

William P. Weston-Dawkes, Aaron C. Ong, Mohamad Ramzi Abdul Majit, Francis Joseph, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

Custom soft robotic gripper sensor skins for haptic object visualization.

Benjamin Shih, Dylan Drotman, Caleb Christianson, Zhaoyuan Huo, Ruffin White, Henrik I. Christensen, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

Differential pressure control of 3D printed soft fluidic actuators.

Tom Kalisky, Yueqi Wang, Benjamin Shih, Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, Eliah Aronoff Spencer, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

3D printed soft actuators for a legged robot capable of navigating unstructured terrain.

Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, Mahmood Karimi, Philip deZonia, Michael Thomas Tolley

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Soft robotic glove for kinesthetic haptic feedback in virtual reality environments.

Saurabh Jadhav, Vikas Kannanda, Bocheng Kang, Michael Thomas Tolley, Jürgen P. Schulze

Proceedings of the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2017, Burlingame, CA, USA, Janurary 29, 2017

2016

A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion.

Je-Sung Koh, Daniel M. Aukes, Brandon Araki, Sarah Pohorecky, Yash Mulgaonkar, Michael Thomas Tolley, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2016

Feedback-controlled self-folding of autonomous robot collectives.

Martin E. W. Nisser, Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Michael Rubenstein, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp.

Yash Mulgaonkar, Brandon Araki, Je-Sung Koh, Luis Guerrero-Bonilla, Daniel M. Aukes, Anurag Makineni, Michael Thomas Tolley, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood, Vijay Kumar

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

2015

Robot Makers: The Future of Digital Rapid Design and Fabrication of Robots.

Nicola Bezzo, Ankur M. Mehta, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Michael Thomas Tolley

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2015

2014

An untethered jumping soft robot.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert F. Shepherd, Michael Karpelson, Nicholas W. Bartlett, Kevin C. Galloway, Michael F. Wehner, Rui Nunes, George M. Whitesides, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Self-assembling sensors for printable machines.

ByungHyun Shin, Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Simple passive valves for addressable pneumatic actuation.

Nils Napp, Brandon Araki, Michael Thomas Tolley, Radhika Nagpal, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

An end-to-end approach to making self-folded 3D surface shapes by uniform heating.

Byoungkwon An, Shuhei Miyashita, Michael Thomas Tolley, Daniel M. Aukes, Laura Meeker, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Robert J. Wood, Daniela Rus

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Mechanically programmed self-folding at the millimeter scale.

Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2014

2013

Self-folding shape memory laminates for automated fabrication.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Samuel M. Felton, Shuhei Miyashita, Lily Xu, ByungHyun Shin, Monica Zhou, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot.

Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Cagdas D. Onal, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

2011

On-line assembly planning for stochastically reconfigurable systems.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2011

Programmable 3D Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of cm-scale modules.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011

2010

Stochastic Modular Robotic Systems: A Study of Fluidic Assembly Strategies.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Michael Kalontarov, Jonas Neubert, David Erickson, Hod Lipson

IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2010

Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots.

Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010