All robotic-related research that requires managing deformation. For instance but not limited to:
Manipulation control of deformable objects
Manipulation planning for deformable objects
Deformable object grasping
Deformation sensing
Deformation modeling (data-driven/model-based/hybrid)
RGB-D Sensing of Challenging Deformable Objects, Ignacio Cuiral-Zueco and Gonzalo Lopez-Nicolas
Building 3D Deformable Object Models in Partially Observable Robotic Environments, Narmadha Sambandam, Stephen Rowlands, Angel J. Valencia, Pierre Payeur and Ana-Maria Cretu
SOMA: A Data-Driven Representation Framework for Semantic Soft Object Manipulation, Peng Zhou, Jihong Zhu and David Navarro-Alarcon
Task-Oriented Contact Adjustment in Deformable Objects Manipulation with Non-Fixed Contact, Jing Huang, Yuanpei Cai, Xiangyu Chu, and K. W. Samuel Au
Adaptive Shape Servoing of Elastic Rods Using Parameterized Regression Features and Auto-Tuning Motion Controls, JIAMING QI, Wanyu M, David Navarro-Alarcon
Automatic Shape Control of Deformable Rods Based on Data-Driven Implicit Sensorimotor Models, Wanyu MA, JIAMING QI, David Navarro-Alarcon
Assembly Strategy for Deformable Ring-Shaped Objects, YITAEK KIM and Christoffer Sloth
MGSD: Multi-Modal Gaussian Shape Descriptors for Correspondence Matching of Linear and Planar Deformable Objects, Aditya Ganapathi∗, Priya Sundaresan∗, Brijen Thananjeyan, Ashwin Balakrishna, Daniel Seita, Ryan Hoque, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg
Impact-Aware Control for Deformable Contacts, Niels Dehio and Abderrahmane Kheddar