Hierarchical RL-Guided Large-scale Navigation of a Snake Robot

S Jiang, A Salagame, A Ramezani… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classical snake robot control leverages mimicking snake-like gaits tuned for specific
environments. However, to operate adaptively in unstructured environments, gait generation …

Non-impulsive Contact-Implicit Motion Planning for Morpho-functional Loco-manipulation

A Salagame, K Gangaraju… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object manipulation has been extensively studied in the context of fixed base and mobile
manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots …

Towards Dynamic Narrow Path Walking on NU's Husky

KV Krishnamurthy - 2023 - search.proquest.com
This research focuses on enabling Northeastern University's Husky, a multi-modal
quadrupedal robot, to navigate narrow paths akin to various animals in nature. The Husky is …

Loco-Manipulation with Nonimpulsive Contact-Implicit Planning in a Slithering Robot

A Salagame, K Gangaraju, HK Nallaguntla… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Object manipulation has been extensively studied in the context of fixed base and mobile
manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots …

A Thesis on Loco-Manipulation with Non-impulsive Contact-Implicit Planning in a Slithering Robot

K Gangaraju - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02379, 2024 - arxiv.org
Object manipulation has been extensively studied in the context of fixed base and mobile
manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots …

Dynamic Posture Manipulation During Tumbling for Closed-Loop Heading Angle Control

A Salagame, E Sihite, G Schirner… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Passive tumbling uses natural forces like gravity for efficient travel. But without an active
means of control, passive tumblers must rely entirely on external forces. Northeastern …

Loco-Manipulation With Non-Impulsive Contact-Implicit Planning in a Slithering Robot

K Gangaraju - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Object manipulation has been extensively studied in the context of fixed base and mobile
manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots …