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)
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 (IROS), 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 (ICRA), 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. (*equal contribution)
Kentaro Barhydt, H. Harry Asada, "A High-Strength, Highly-Flexible Robotic Strap for Harnessing, Lifting, and Transferring Humans", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
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.
O. G. Osele, A. M. Okamura, K. Barhydt, "Mechanically programmable cross-sectional shape of soft growing robots," WO2025259612A1, Dec. 18, 2025. (pending)
K. Barhydt, O. G. Osele, A. M. Okamura, H. H. Asada, "Everting flexible inflatable structures for assisting subjects," WO2025183727A1, Sep. 4, 2025. (pending)
K. Barhydt, O. G. Osele, H. H. Asada, "Winches for use with inverting and everting robotic limbs," WO2024263298A3, Jan. 30, 2025. (pending)
K. Barhydt and H. H. Asada, “Flexible robotic limbs including rolling contact joints,” US12384057B2, Aug. 12, 2025. (active)