International Conference

Link to Journal Papers and Domestic Conferences

Reinforced Artificial Muscles and Morphing Suction Cups for Real-World Soft Manipulation

Altair Coutinho and Hugo Rodrigue,

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 23-26, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Development of Single-Input Driven Thermo-Pneumatic Antagonistic Artificial Muscle with Shape Memory Alloy Springs

Jiseong Shin and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 23-26, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Development and Research on 3D Printed Telescopic Bidirectional Actuator

Sewoong Chung and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 23-26, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Silicone Layer Jamming-Based Variable Elasticity Skin for Soft

Robots

Vaqas Arshad and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 23-26, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hyperbaric Vacuum Actuator and Thermo-pneumatic PAMs

Hugo Rodrigue, Jiseong Shin, and Altair Coutinho

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2024), April 14-17, San Diego, USA.

Worksop on Fluid-driven Soft Actuators: Challenges and Opportunities.

Unbuckling Inflatable Tubes for Soft Robotic Applications

Hugo Rodrigue, Haneol Lee

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13-17, Yokohama, Japan.

Worksop on Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications.

Development of Soft Pneumatic Actuators and its Application to  Large-scale Soft Robotic Arm

Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13-17, Yokohama, Japan.

Worksop on Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications.

Origami-based Soft Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Future Robotics 

Jin-Gyu Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13-17, Yokohama, Japan.

Worksop on Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications.

Reinforced Bidirectional Artificial Muscles for a Continuum  Manipulator

Altair Coutinho, Sarang Kim, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13-17, Yokohama, Japan.

Worksop on Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications.

Optimizing Speed: Fluidic Hardware Approaches for Enhanced Actuation in Combined Pressure Artificial Muscles 

Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13-17, Yokohama, Japan.

Worksop on Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications.

Design of Reinforced Bidirectional Artificial Muscles:  Enhancing Force for Soft Bellows Actuators 

Altair Coutinho, Sarang Kim, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM2024) , July 7-12, Busan, Korea.

Evaluation of Rollable-based Layer Jamming Device with Variable Stiffness 

Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM2024) , July 7-12, Busan, Korea.

Utilizing Shape Memory Alloys sheets for Bi-Directional Auxetic Structures 

Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM2024) , July 7-12, Busan, Korea.

3D Printed Bidirectional Telescopic Actuator: Design and Manufacturing

Sewoong Chung, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM2024) , July 7-12, Busan, Korea.

Soft, Variable Stiffness Mechanism Using Rollable-based Layer  Jamming Device in Soft Robotics 

Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

The 11th Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2024 (ACMD2024), August 25-29, Suwon, Korea.

Shape Memory Alloy-Based Auxetic Structure Enables Inherently 2-Directional Actuation

Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

The 11th Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2024 (ACMD2024), August 25-29, Suwon, Korea.

Preliminary Result on Passive Wearable Device using Origami-based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

Faqihah Abu Bakar, and Hugo Rodrigue

24th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 29-November 1, Jeju, Korea.

Stretchable R-G-B haptic soft optical sensor for human-robot interaction

Gyohyeon Song, Jiseong Shin, and Hugo Rodrigue

24th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 29-November 1, Jeju, Korea.

Thermo-Pneumatic SMA Artificial Muscle for Enhanced Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation

Jiseong Shin, and Hugo Rodrigue

24th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 29-November 1, Jeju, Korea.

Control and Actuation Optimization of Hyper-Vacuum Artificial Muscles   |   Best Paper Award

Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

23rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 17-20, Yoesu, Korea.

Analysis of the effect of the passive speed booster for a higher actuation speed

Jin-Gyu Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

23rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 17-20, Yoesu, Korea.

Bidirectional Auxetic Structures using Nitinol Shape Memory Alloys sheet

Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

23rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 17-20, Yoesu, Korea.

Design and Implementation of a Pneumatic Actuator for Robotic Arm Control

Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

23rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), October 17-20, Yoesu, Korea.

A Tunable Tensile Element for Variable Compliance of Tensegrity Robots

Vaqas Arshad, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), August 28-31, Busan, Korea.

Actuation Optimization of Hyper-Vacuum Artificial Muscles

Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), August 28-31, Busan, Korea.

Manufacturing and Design of Inflatable Kirigami Actuators

Sewoong Chung, Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), August 28-31, Busan, Korea.

Control and Actuation Optimization of Hyper-Vacuum Artificial Muscles

Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 16-21, Okinawa, Japan.

Implementation of variable stiffness pneumatic artificial muscles into a robotic arm

Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 16-21, Okinawa, Japan.

Bidirectional Auxetic Structures using Nitinol Shape Memory Alloys sheet

Yeong Jae Park, HyunJe Ahn, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 16-21, Okinawa, Japan.

Numerical Modeling and Torque Evaluation of Soft Torsional Actuator based on Pre-twisted Pneumatic Tubes

Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 16-21, Okinawa, Japan.

Proprioceptive Soft Pneumatic Gripper for Extreme Environments Using Hybrid Optical Fibers

Babar Jamil, Gyeongjae Yoo, Youngjin Choi, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA), May 29-June 2, London, England.

Highly Stretchable Inductive-Based Coil-Spring Strain Sensor for Motion Intention Recognition of Soft Wearable Robots

Seong Jun Park, Kyungjun Choi, Jeongdo Ahn, Hyun-Mok Jung, Jeongae Bak, Byung-Kil Han, Hugo Rodrigue, and Cheol Hoon Park

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 25-28, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Simultaneous Multi-channel Positive and Negative Pneumatic Boosting System for Operating Pneumatic Soft Actuators

Myeongyun Doh, Chanyong Park, Sang Hyeon Park, Nabih Andres Pico Rosas, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Ja Choon Koo, Hugo Rodrigue, and Hyungpil Moon

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 25-28, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Design of Roller-Type Soft Gripper for Handling Flexible Cables

Jae-Young Lee, Yong-Sin Seo, Dongil Park, Jongwoo Park, Byung-Kil Han, Chanhun Park, Hugo Rodrigue, and Sung-Hyuk Song

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 25-28, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Mechanical design of a new strapping gripper using thin and flexible band and planar pick and place operation

Chanyong Park, Myeongyun Doh, Sang Hyeon Park, Hugo Rodrigue, and Hyungpil Moon

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 25-28, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Towards the Development of a Bidirectional Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

Altair Coutinho, Jiseong Shin, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 20-22, Jeju-do, Korea.

Design and Performance of a Pneumatic-Based Expanding Torsional Soft Spring Actuator

Seongwon Jang, Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 20-22, Jeju-do, Korea.

Design and Performance of a Gusseted Pouch Motors for Robot Arm

Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 20-22, Jeju-do, Korea.

Development of Soft Foldable Bidirectional Bending Actuator for Robotic Joint

Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), November 27-30, Busan, Korea.

Pneumatic Suction Cup Actuated by Change in Volume of Membrane

JunMo Kim, Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 4-6, Jeju-do, Korea.

Development of Thermal Expansion Driven Pneumatic Actuator

Jiseong Shin, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 4-6, Jeju-do, Korea.

An Artificial Muscle Using Combined Positive and Negative Pressures

Altair Coutinho, Jiseong Shin, and Hugo Rodrigue, 2022, “

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 4-6, Jeju-do, Korea.

Expanding Pouch Motor Patterns for Programmable Soft Bending Actuation,

Haneol Lee, Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 31-June 4, Xi’an, China.

Development of Pre-twisting Based Soft Inflatable Robotic Torsional Actuator

Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 12-14, Gangneung, Korea.

Development of Gusseted Pouch Motor using Rectangular Inflation Mechanism

Jae Hyuck Jang, Gi Jun Park, Young Jin Moon and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 12-14, Gangneung, Korea.

Towards the Development of Variable Elasticity Devices 

Vaqas Arshad, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 21-23, Jeju, Korea.

Development of an Embedded Resistive-based Soft Sensor

Seongwon Jang, Altair Coutinho, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 21-23, Jeju, Korea.

Development of a Positive-Negative Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

Altair Coutinho, JinGyu Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), November 15-18, Online, Korea.

Development of Multi-jointed Inflatable Pouches

Yeong Jae Park, Haneol Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), November 15-18, Online, Korea.

Linear Brake Integrated Gusseted Pouch Using Positive and Negative Pressure

Jae Hyuck Jang, Nam Soo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), November 15-18, Online, Korea.

Performance of a Positive-Negative Pressure Based Layer Jamming Brake Combined with an Inflatable Pouch

Jae Hyuck Jang, Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 22-26, Online, Japan.

Development of a Pre-twisting Based Inflatable Torsional Actuator for Robotic Application

Namsoo Oh, Haneol Lee and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 22-26, Online, Japan.

Development of a Hybrid Pressure Driven Artificial Muscle for Robotic Applications,

Altair Coutinho, Jin-Gyu Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 22-26, Online, Japan.

Novel Linear and Bending Negative Pressure Soft Actuators

Hugo Rodrigue, Altair Coutinho, Jin-Gyu Lee, and Mohammad Fatahillah

The 4th International Conference on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), October 16-19, Incheon, Korea.

Film-based Giant Inflatable Soft Gripper

Haneol Lee, Namsoo Oh, and Hugo Rodrigue

The 4th International Conference on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), October 16-19, Incheon, Korea.

Development of an Inflatable 2-DOF Soft Inflatable Robotic Joint

Namsoo Oh, Haneol Lee, Yeong Jae Park, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 24-27, Jeju, Korea.

Rolling and Jumping SMA-based Tensegrity Robot

Ji-Hyeong Lee and Hugo Rodrigue,

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 20-24, Montreal, Canada.

Development of Pouch-based Soft Pneumatic Bending Actuator

Haneol Lee, Namsoo Oh, Yeong Jae Park, Jae Hyuck Jang, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 14-18, Seoul, Korea.

Shape Memory Alloy Springs Implementation in Tensegrity Robots

Ji-hyeong Lee, Jin-gyu Lee, Altair Sales Coutinho Jr, Mohammad Fatahillah, and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 14-18, Seoul, Korea.

Shape Memory Alloy-based Tendons for High Performance Soft Actuation

Ji-Hyeong Lee, Yoon Seop Chung, Rodrigue Hugo

The 3rd International Workshop on Active Materials and Soft Mechatronics (AMSM), Oct 24-25, Daejeon, Korea.

Energy Efficiency of Large Vacuum-based Soft Actuators

Woocheol Jeong, Jin-Gyu Lee and Hugo Rodrigue

International Conference on Energy and Sustainability (ICES), Oct 17-19, Seoul, Korea.

Development of Inflatable 1DOF Joint Actuator

Haneol Lee, Namsoo Oh and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 3-7, Sapporo, Japan.

Twisted Shape Memory Alloy Springs

Jihyeong Lee, Yoonseop Chung and Rodrigue Hugo

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 3-7, Sapporo, Japan.

Development of Vacuum-based Linear Soft Actuator

Jin-Gyu Lee and Hugo Rodrigue

International Symposium on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM), July 3-7, Sapporo, Japan.

Prototype of an Inflatable Soft Robotic Joint

Namsoo Oh, Haneol Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue

Ubiquitous Robots (UR), June 26-30, Hawaii, USA.

Actuation Properties of a Film-based Vacuum Actuator with Very Large Linear Deformations

Jin-Gyu Lee and Hugo Rodrigue

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 24-28, Livorno, Italy.

Biomimetic robotic joint mechanism driven by soft linear actuators

Cho, K.H., Song, M.G., Jung, H., Yang, S.Y., Rodrigue, H., Moon, H., Koo, J.C., and Choi, H.R.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, pp. 1850-1855, May 29-June 03, Singapore.

Shape Memory Alloy Wire Bundles For The Easy Scaling Of Force And Stroke Length

Kim, J., Lee, J.-H., Heo, D.-J., Lee, H., and Rodrigue, H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA), June 26-July 01, Gyeongju, Korea.

Pleated Film-based Soft Twisting Actuator

Ahn, C., and Rodrigue, H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA), June 26-July 01, Gyeongju, Korea.

Heat sealed Film-based Inflatable Soft Pneumatic Bending Actuator

Jung, J.C., and Rodrigue, H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA), June 26-July 01, Gyeongju, Korea.

Additive Manufacturing Process For Smart Soft Composite Actuator

Kim, M.C., Kim, N.G., Song, S.H., Rodrigue, H. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA), 2016, June 21-25, Bali, Indonesia.

High Speed Smart Soft Composite (SSC) Structure Actuator with Large Deformation

Song, S.H., Lee, J.Y., Rodrigue, H. and Ahn, S.H.

5th International Conference Smart and Multifunctional Materials, Structures and Systems (CIMTEC), 2016, June 5-9, Perugia, Italy.

High speed smart soft composite actuator   |   Outstanding Poster Award

Song, S.H., Lee, J.Y., Rodrigue, H. and Ahn, S.H.

The 9th International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology (ISNIT), 2016, Jan. 13-15, Daejeon, Korea. Outstanding Poster Award

SMA-based soft twisting-bending coupled actuator and its application to active catheter

Quan, Y.J., Wang, W., Rodrigue, H., Song, S.H., Chu, W.S. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2015, June 23-27, Qingdao, China.

Design and Control of Wrist-like Smart Soft Composite Actuator   |   Outstanding Presenter Award

Rodrigue, H., Wang, W., Han, M.W. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2015, June 23-27, Qingdao, China.

Design and Fabrication of Flexible Hinge Actuator made of SMA-based Smart Soft Composite

Wang, W., Rodrigue, H., Yuan, F. ,Liu, H., Kim, H.I. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2015, June 23-27, Qingdao, China.

Design and Development of Bio-mimetic Soft Robotic Hand with Shape Memory Alloy

Kim, H.I., Han, M.W., Wang, W., Rodrigue, H., Song, S.H. and Ahn, S.H.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2015, Dec. 6-9, Zhuhai, China.

Design of Linear Actuators and Application to Deployable Structures

Wang, W., Rodrigue, H. and Ahn, S.H.

International Conference on Advances in Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, 2015, Oct. 21-23, Seoul, Korea.

Twisting Actuator Based on Helical SMA Wires Made of Smart Soft Composite (SSC)

Wang, W., Rodrigue, H., Shim, J.E., Song, S.H., Chu, W.S. and Ahn, S.H., 2014

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2014, June 24-28, Busan, Korea.

Development of Twisting Actuator using Shape Memory Alloy

Shim, J.E., Wang, W., Song, S.H., Rodrigue, H. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2014, June 24-28, Busan, Korea.

Smart Soft Composite (SSC) based Morphing Car-spoiler for Improving Aerodynamic Characteristics

Han, M.W., Rodrigue, H., Cho, S., Chu, W.S., Song, S.H., Choi, H. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA), 2014, June 24-28, Busan, Korea.

Morphing Wing with Sectional Out-of-plane Twisting Deformation

Rodrigue, H., Han, M.W.,Shim, J.E., Song, S.H. and Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2014, June 24-28, Busan, Korea.

Design and Performance Evaluation of Soft Morphing Car-spoiler

Han, M.W., Rodrigue, H., Cho, S., Song, S.H., Chu, W.S., Choi, H. and Ahn, S.H.

ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), 2014, Aug. 17-20, Buffalo, New York, USA.

Morphing Car-Spoiler using Woven Type Smart Soft Composite (SSC) Actuator

Han, M.W., Chu, W.S., Rodrigue, H., Lee, J.Y., Song, S.H., Daniel Lee, Ahn, S.H.

International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Application (ISGMA), 2013, June 25-29, Ohau, Hawaii, USA.

Une méthodologie de conception pour la fabrication additive

Rodrigue, H., Rivette, M., Calatoru, V. and Richir, S.

Congrès International de Génie Industriel (CIGI), 2011, October 12-14, Saint-Sauveur, Canada.

An Assembly-Level Design for Additive Manufacturing Methodology,

Rodrigue, H. and Rivette, M.

 IDMME-Virtual Concept, 2011, October 20-22, Bordeaux, France.