Audrey Sedal
Papers
12
Total Citations
162
H-Index
6
About
Audrey Sedal is a leading researcher in soft robotics, specializing in the modeling, design, and control of compliant actuators and deployable structures. Her work centers on fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs) and auxetic materials, where she has developed foundational continuum models that enable these soft robots to produce sophisticated motions—including axial rotation, extension, and compression—with high fidelity. Sedal’s major contributions include pioneering a design methodology for kirigami-based deployable soft robots (44 citations) and advancing sim-to-real transfer frameworks that jointly optimize robot design and control, as demonstrated in her work on soft-legged crawlers (21 citations). Her most cited paper, “A Continuum Model for Fiber-Reinforced Soft Robot Actuators” (45 citations), provides a critical theoretical foundation for the field. Sedal’s research has been recognized for its impact on mechanical intelligence—the ability of soft robots to passively exhibit complex behaviors—and her models are widely used for applications in medical devices, locomotion, and industrial automation. Her work on auxetic sleeves and differentiable surrogate models further pushes the boundaries of tunable kinematics and trajectory optimization, cementing her reputation as a key innovator in soft robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1A Continuum Model for Fiber-Reinforced Soft Robot Actuators45 citations · 2018
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- 4Auxetic Sleeves for Soft Actuators with Kinematically Varied Surfaces16 citations · 2018
- 5Model based control of fiber reinforced elastofluidic enclosures15 citations · 2017
- 6A Constitutive Model for Torsional Loads on Fluid-Driven Soft Robots7 citations · 2017
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- 9Sim-to-real transfer of co-optimized soft robot crawlers2 citations · 2023
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