Contour Moments Based Manipulation of Composite Rigid-Deformable Objects With Finite Time Model Estimation and Shape/Position Control

The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (i.e., those with mixed nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical applications that, despite the recent progress in the field, it has not been sufficiently studied in the literature. To deal with this issue, in this article, we propose a...

LaSeSOM: A Latent and Semantic Representation Framework for Soft Object Manipulation

Soft object manipulation has recently gained popularity within the robotics community due to its potential applications in many economically important areas. Although great progress has been recently achieved in these types of tasks, most state-of-the-art methods are case-specific; They can only be used to perform a single deformation task (e...

Viscoplasticity for instabilities due to strain softening and strain-rate softening

Computing strain fields from discrete displacement fields in 2D-solids

Experimental monitoring of strain localization and failure behaviour of composite materials

Some observations on element performance in isochoric and dilatant plastic flow

An algorithm for mesh rezoning with application to strain localization problems

Finite-Element Modeling of Deformation and Cracking in Early-Age Concrete

CONTINUUM MODELS FOR DISCONTINUOUS MEDIA