Michael Thomas Tolley

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2010-2024
Publications (10 Years): 48

Top Topics

Recurrent Neural Networks

Virtual Reality Environments

Robotic Systems

Top Venues

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.

Publications

Harsh Sharma, Iman Adibnazari, Jacobo Cervera-Torralba, Michael Thomas Tolley, Boris Kramer
Data-driven Model Reduction for Soft Robots via Lagrangian Operator Inference. CoRR (2024)
Anoush Sepehri, Samuel Ward, Michael Thomas Tolley, Tania K. Morimoto
A Soft Robotic Wrist Orthosis Using Textile Pneumatic Actuators For Passive Rehabilitation. RoboSoft (2024)
Jacobo Cervera-Torralba, Yuxiang Kang, Eesa M. Khan, Iman Adibnazari, Michael Thomas Tolley
Lost-Core Injection Molding of Fluidic Elastomer Actuators for the Fabrication of a Modular Eel-Inspired Soft Robot. RoboSoft (2024)
Paul E. Glick, J. Bob Balaram, Michael Ruvimovich Davidson, Elizabeth Lyons, Michael Thomas Tolley
The role of low-cost robots in the future of spaceflight. Sci. Robotics 9 (91) (2024)
Xiaoran Zha, Saurabh Jadhav, Iman Adibnazari, Yichen Zhai, Michael Thomas Tolley
Scalable Arrays of Pneumatic Sensors for Multitouch Soft Skins. RoboSoft (2024)
Emily Lathrop, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish
Directionally Compliant Legs Enabling Crevasse Traversal in Small Ground-Based Robots. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (4) (2023)
Korkut Eken, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Continuous Skin Eversion Enables an Untethered Soft Robot to Burrow in Granular Media. RoboSoft (2023)
Chengzhe Jia, Sankaran Ramanarayanan, Antonio L. Sanchez, Michael Thomas Tolley
Controlling the motion of gas-lubricated adhesive disks using multiple vibration sources. Frontiers Robotics AI 10 (2023)
Yichen Zhai, Albert De Boer, Jiayao Yan, Benjamin Shih, Martin Faber, Joshua Speros, Rohini Gupta, Michael Thomas Tolley
Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits. Sci. Robotics 8 (79) (2023)
Saurabh Jadhav, Paul E. Glick, Michael Ishida, Christian Chan, Iman Adibnazari, Jürgen P. Schulze, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Scalable Fluidic Matrix Circuits for Controlling Large Arrays of Individually Addressable Actuators. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (8) (2023)
Mohammad S. Ramadan, Mahmoud A. Hayajnh, Michael Thomas Tolley, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis
Actively Learning Reinforcement Learning: A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach. CoRR (2023)
Shivam Chopra, Drago Vasile, Saurabh Jadhav, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish
Toward Robotic Sensing and Swimming in Granular Environments using Underactuated Appendages. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (8) (2023)
Jessica A. Sandoval, Thomas Xu, Iman Adibnazari, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Michael Thomas Tolley
Combining Suction and Friction to Stabilize a Soft Gripper to Shear and Normal Forces, for Manipulation of Soft Objects in Wet Environments. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 (2) (2022)
Adriane Fernandes Minori, Saurabh Jadhav, Haojin Chen, Samantha Fong, Michael Thomas Tolley
Power Amplification for Jumping Soft Robots Actuated by Artificial Muscles. Frontiers Robotics AI 9 (2022)
Dylan Drotman, Shivam Chopra, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Anisotropic Forces for a Worm-Inspired Digging Robot. RoboSoft (2022)
Junda Chen, Benjamin Shih, Iman Adibnazari, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley
Open-loop printing of liquid metal for the low-cost rapid fabrication of soft sensors. RoboSoft (2022)
Michael Ishida, Jessica A. Sandoval, Sebastian Lee, Sidney Huen, Michael Thomas Tolley
Locomotion via Active Suction in a Sea Star-Inspired Soft Robot. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 (4) (2022)
Paul E. Glick, Iman Adibnazari, Dylan Drotman, Donald Ruffatto, Michael Thomas Tolley
Branching Vine Robots for Unmapped Environments. Frontiers Robotics AI 9 (2022)
William P. Weston-Dawkes, Iman Adibnazari, Yi-Wen Hu, Michael Everman, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Gas-Lubricated Vibration-Based Adhesion for Robotics. Adv. Intell. Syst. 3 (7) (2021)
Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, David Sharp, Christian Chan, Michael Thomas Tolley
Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots. Sci. Robotics 6 (51) (2021)
Elliot W. Hawkes, Carmel Majidi, Michael Thomas Tolley
Hard questions for soft robotics. Sci. Robotics 6 (53) (2021)
Shivam Chopra, Michael Thomas Tolley, Nick Gravish
Granular Jamming Feet Enable Improved Foot-Ground Interactions for Robot Mobility on Deformable Ground. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (3) (2020)
Paul E. Glick, Nikko Van Crey, Michael Thomas Tolley, Donald Ruffatto
Robust capture of unknown objects with a highly under-actuated gripper. ICRA (2020)
Paul Glick, Dylan Drotman, Donald Ruffatto, Michael Thomas Tolley
High Strength Inflatable Pouch Anchors. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (3) (2020)
Emily Lathrop, Iman Adibnazari, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Shear Strengthened Granular Jamming Feet for Improved Performance over Natural Terrain. RoboSoft (2020)
Benjamin Shih, Emily Lathrop, Iman Adibnazari, Ricky Martin, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley
Classification of components of affective touch using rapidly-manufacturable soft sensor skins. RoboSoft (2020)
Benjamin Shih, Dylan S. Shah, Jinxing Li, Thomas George Thuruthel, Yong-Lae Park, Fumiya Iida, Zhenan Bao, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Michael Thomas Tolley
Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots. Sci. Robotics 5 (41) (2020)
Iman Adibnazari, Byung Jun Jeon, Yong-Lae Park, Michael Thomas Tolley
Versatile rotary actuators for small-scale robotic systems. RoboSoft (2020)
Benjamin Shih, Caleb Christianson, Kyle Gillespie, Sebastian Lee, Jason Mayeda, Zhaoyuan Huo, Michael Thomas Tolley
Design Considerations for 3D Printed, Soft, Multimaterial Resistive Sensors for Soft Robotics. Frontiers Robotics AI 6 (2019)
Michael Ishida, Dylan Drotman, Benjamin Shih, Mark Hermes, Mitul Luhar, Michael Thomas Tolley
Morphing Structure for Changing Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Soft Underwater Walking Robot. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 (4) (2019)
Daniel Ortiz, Nick Gravish, Michael Thomas Tolley
Soft Robot Actuation Strategies for Locomotion in Granular Substrates. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 (3) (2019)
Caleb Christianson, Christopher Bayag, Guorui Li, Saurabh Jadhav, Ayush Giri, Chibuike Agba, Tiefeng Li, Michael Thomas Tolley
Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robot Driven by Fluid Electrode Dielectric Organic Robotic Actuators. Frontiers Robotics AI 6 (2019)
Jamie Luong, Paul Glick, Aaron C. Ong, Maya S. deVries, Stuart Sandin, Elliot W. Hawkes, Michael Thomas Tolley
Eversion and Retraction of a Soft Robot Towards the Exploration of Coral Reefs. RoboSoft (2019)
Benjamin Shih, Cecilia Laschi, Michael Thomas Tolley
Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks. Sci. Robotics 4 (26) (2019)
Byoungkwon An, Shuhei Miyashita, Aaron C. Ong, Michael Thomas Tolley, Martin L. Demaine, Erik D. Demaine, Robert J. Wood, Daniela Rus
An End-to-End Approach to Self-Folding Origami Structures. IEEE Trans. Robotics 34 (6) (2018)
Donald Ruffatto, Paul Glick, Michael Thomas Tolley, Aaron Parness
Long-Duration Surface Anchoring With a Hybrid Electrostatic and Gecko-Inspired Adhesive. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 (4) (2018)
Benjamin Shih, Jason Mayeda, Zhaoyuan Huo, Caleb Christianson, Michael Thomas Tolley
3D printed resistive soft sensors. RoboSoft (2018)
Nathaniel N. Goldberg, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Shengqiang Cai, Michael Thomas Tolley
Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators. Sci. Robotics 3 (17) (2018)
Paul Glick, Srinivasan A. Suresh, Donald Ruffatto, Mark R. Cutkosky, Michael Thomas Tolley, Aaron Parness
A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 (2) (2018)
Saurabh Jadhav, Vikas Kannanda, Bocheng Kang, Michael Thomas Tolley, Jürgen P. Schulze
Soft robotic glove for kinesthetic haptic feedback in virtual reality environments. ERVR (2017)
Tom Kalisky, Yueqi Wang, Benjamin Shih, Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, Eliah Aronoff Spencer, Michael Thomas Tolley
Differential pressure control of 3D printed soft fluidic actuators. IROS (2017)
Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, Mahmood Karimi, Philip deZonia, Michael Thomas Tolley
3D printed soft actuators for a legged robot capable of navigating unstructured terrain. ICRA (2017)
William P. Weston-Dawkes, Aaron C. Ong, Mohamad Ramzi Abdul Majit, Francis Joseph, Michael Thomas Tolley
Towards rapid mechanical customization of cm-scale self-folding agents. IROS (2017)
Benjamin Shih, Dylan Drotman, Caleb Christianson, Zhaoyuan Huo, Ruffin White, Henrik I. Christensen, Michael Thomas Tolley
Custom soft robotic gripper sensor skins for haptic object visualization. IROS (2017)
Je-Sung Koh, Daniel M. Aukes, Brandon Araki, Sarah Pohorecky, Yash Mulgaonkar, Michael Thomas Tolley, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood
A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion. ISER (2016)
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
The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp. ICRA (2016)
Martin E. W. Nisser, Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Michael Rubenstein, Robert J. Wood
Feedback-controlled self-folding of autonomous robot collectives. IROS (2016)
Nicola Bezzo, Ankur M. Mehta, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Michael Thomas Tolley
Robot Makers: The Future of Digital Rapid Design and Fabrication of Robots. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 22 (4) (2015)
Nils Napp, Brandon Araki, Michael Thomas Tolley, Radhika Nagpal, Robert J. Wood
Simple passive valves for addressable pneumatic actuation. ICRA (2014)
Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert J. Wood
Mechanically programmed self-folding at the millimeter scale. CASE (2014)
ByungHyun Shin, Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert J. Wood
Self-assembling sensors for printable machines. ICRA (2014)
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
An untethered jumping soft robot. IROS (2014)
Byoungkwon An, Shuhei Miyashita, Michael Thomas Tolley, Daniel M. Aukes, Laura Meeker, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Robert J. Wood, Daniela Rus
An end-to-end approach to making self-folded 3D surface shapes by uniform heating. ICRA (2014)
Michael Thomas Tolley, Samuel M. Felton, Shuhei Miyashita, Lily Xu, ByungHyun Shin, Monica Zhou, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood
Self-folding shape memory laminates for automated fabrication. IROS (2013)
Samuel M. Felton, Michael Thomas Tolley, Cagdas D. Onal, Daniela Rus, Robert J. Wood
Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot. ICRA (2013)
Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson
On-line assembly planning for stochastically reconfigurable systems. Int. J. Robotics Res. 30 (13) (2011)
Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson
Programmable 3D Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of cm-scale modules. IROS (2011)
Michael Thomas Tolley, Michael Kalontarov, Jonas Neubert, David Erickson, Hod Lipson
Stochastic Modular Robotic Systems: A Study of Fluidic Assembly Strategies. IEEE Trans. Robotics 26 (3) (2010)
Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson
Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots. ICRA (2010)