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)
Y. Gao*, K. Barhydt*, C. Niezrecki, Y. Gu, "Provably Stabilizing Global-Position Tracking Control for Hybrid Models of Multi-Domain Bipedal Walking via Multiple Lyapunov Analysis," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 2024. (*equal contribution)
K. Barhydt, H. H. Asada, "A High-Strength, Highly-Flexible Robotic Strap for Harnessing, Lifting, and Transferring Humans", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
K. Barhydt, A. Adu-Bredu, S. Everhart-Skeels, G. Bedell, K. Panetta, W. 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.
J. Kimber, Z. Ji, T. Sipple, A. Petridou, K. Barhydt, J. Boggs, L. Dosiek, J. 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)