Fluidic Body: Swarm Robots as a Fluid Extension of the Hand
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This paper introduces Fluidic Body, a system enabling human operators to control a swarm of fluid-imitating robots using hand gestures that modulate virtual fluid properties. The swarm transitions between soft, deformable states for navigating obstacles and hard, cohesive states for pushing objects. Evaluation across two simulation experiments and one physical demonstration shows the controller outperforms existing task-specific methods in obstacle avoidance and object transportation, reduces user workload, enhances sense of agency, and successfully transfers from VR to real-world robotic hardware.
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“becomes soft enough to deform and flow around obstacles. Closing the hand turns it into a hard, cohesive body that can push objects. We evaluated the controller's performance and its operability in two simulation experiments and one demonstration with physical robots. First, our controller handled both obstacle avoidance and object transportation better than an existing method that behaves the same way in every task.”
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“becomes soft enough to deform and flow around obstacles. Closing the hand turns it into a hard, cohesive body that can push objects. We evaluated the controller's performance and its operability in two simulation experiments and one demonstration with physical robots. First, our controller handled both obstacle avoidance and object transportation better than an existing method that behaves the same way in every task.”
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“becomes soft enough to deform and flow around obstacles. Closing the hand turns it into a hard, cohesive body that can push objects. We evaluated the controller's performance and its operability in two simulation experiments and one demonstration with physical robots. First, our controller handled both obstacle avoidance and object transportation better than an existing method that behaves the same way in every task.”
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- arXiv Robotics — research abstractsSignalFluidic Body: Swarm Robots as a Fluid Extension of the Hand
This paper introduces Fluidic Body, a system enabling human operators to control a swarm of fluid-imitating robots using hand gestures that modulate virtual fluid properties. The swarm transitions between soft, deformable states for navigating obstacles and hard, cohesive states for pushing objects. Evaluation across two simulation experiments and one physical demonstration shows the controller outperforms existing task-specific methods in obstacle avoidance and object transportation, reduces user workload, enhances sense of agency, and successfully transfers from VR to real-world robotic hardware.
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