A Tip Mount for Transporting Sensors and Tools using Soft Growing Robots

This presentation accompanies the paper: Sang-Goo Jeong, Margaret M. Coad, Laura H. Blumenschein, Ming Luo, Usman Mehmood, Ji Hun Kim, Allison M. Okamura, and Jee-Hwan Ryu, "A Tip Mount for Transporting Sensors and Tools using Soft Growing Robots," in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08297

This work was supported in part by the project “Toward the Next Generation of Robotic Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: Fundamental Enabling Technologies (10069072),” the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award 1637446, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award FA2386-17-1-4658, Toyota Research Institute (TRI), and the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program. TRI provided funds to assist the authors with their research, but this article solely reflects the opinions and conclusions of its authors and not TRI or any other Toyota entity.