K. Barhydt*, O. G. Osele*, S. Kodali, C. du Pasquier, C. M. Hartquist, H. H. Asada, and A. M. Okamura, “Loop closure grasping: Topological transformations enable strong, gentle, and versatile grasps,” Science Advances, 2025. (*equal contribution) [in press]
O. G. Osele*, K. Barhydt*, T. Sullivan, H. H. Asada, A. M. Okamura, “Mechanically Programming the Cross-Sectional Shape of Soft Growing Robotic Structures for Patient Transfer,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hangzhou, China, 2025. (*co-first author)
O. G. Osele*, K. Barhydt*, N. Cerone, A. M. Okamura, H. H. Asada, “Tip-Clutching Winch for High Tensile Force Application with Soft Growing Robots,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Yokohama, Japan, 2024. (*co-first author)
Yuan Gao*, Kentaro Barhydt*, Christopher Niezrecki, Yan Gu, "Provably Stabilizing Global-Position Tracking Control for Hybrid Models of Multi-Domain Bipedal Walking via Multiple Lyapunov Analysis," Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 2024.
Kentaro Barhydt, H. Harry Asada, "A High-Strength, Highly-Flexible Robotic Strap for Harnessing, Lifting, and Transferring Humans", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023. (presented at IROS 2023) [paper link]
Kentaro Barhydt, Alphonsus Adu-Bredu, Sarah Everhart-Skeels, Gary Bedell, Karen Panetta, William Messner, “Cartbot: A Direct-Manipulation Minimal Degrees-of-Freedom Mobile Assistive Robot to Maximize User Agency”, IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, Rome, Italy, 2020.
Jonathan Kimber, Zongliang Ji, Thomas Sipple, Aikaterini Petridou, Kentaro Barhydt, James Boggs, Luke Dosiek, John Rieffel, “Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots”, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, Seoul, Korea, 2019.
Barhydt, Kentaro, “Development of a Fully Instrumented, Resonant Tensegrity Strut” (2018). Honors Theses. 1627.