David Howard

109 papers A* 4A 11B 3C 1Misc 2Journal 68Unranked 20
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming (Abstract Reprint).
AAAI
Lois Liow, James Brett, Josh Pinskier, Lauren Hanson, Louis Tidswell, Navinda Kottege, David Howard
2026 J jnl
A Framework for Dynamic Situational Awareness in Human-Robot Teams: An Interview Study.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.
Hashini Senaratne, Leimin Tian, Pavan Sikka, Jason Williams, David Howard, Dana Kulic, Cécile Paris
2026 J jnl
SimTO: A simulation-based topology optimization framework for bespoke soft robotic grippers.
CoRR
Kurt Enkera, Josh Pinskier, Marcus Gallagher, David Howard
2025 J jnl
3D Printable Soft Liquid Metal Sensors for Delicate Manipulation Tasks.
CoRR
Lois Liow, Jonty Milford, Emre Uygun, Andre Farinha, Vinoth Viswanathan, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard
2025 J jnl
A Framework for Dynamic Situational Awareness in Human Robot Teams: An Interview Study.
CoRR
Hashini Senaratne, Leimin Tian, Pavan Sikka, Jason Williams, David Howard, Dana Kulic, Cécile Paris
2025 J jnl
A democratized bimodal model of research for soft robotics: Integrating slow and fast science.
Sci. Robotics
Nana Obayashi, David Howard, Kyle L. Walker, Jonas Jørgensen, Maks Gepner, Dan Sameoto, Adam A. Stokes, Fumiya Iida, Josie Hughes
2025 — conf
DexGrip: Multi-modal Soft Gripper with Dexterous Grasping and In-hand Manipulation Capacity.
RoboSoft
Xing Wang, Liam Horrigan, Joshua Pinskier, Ge Shi, Vinoth Viswanathan, Lois Liow, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Jen Jen Chung, David Howard
2025 J jnl
Human-Robot Team Performance Compared to Full Robot Autonomy in 16 Real-World Search and Rescue Missions: Adaptation of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.
Nicole L. Robinson, Jason Williams, David Howard, Brendan Tidd, Fletcher Talbot, Brett Wood, Alex Pitt, Navinda Kottege, Dana Kulic
2025 J jnl
Programmable Telescopic Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Deployable and Shape Morphing Soft Robots.
CoRR
Joel Kemp, Andre Farinha, David Howard, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, Josh Pinskier
2025 J jnl
Scalable Multi-Objective Robot Reinforcement Learning through Gradient Conflict Resolution.
CoRR
Humphrey Munn, Brendan Tidd, Peter Böhm, Marcus Gallagher, David Howard
2025 — conf
SoGraB: A Visual Method for Soft Grasping Benchmarking and Evaluation.
RoboSoft
Benjamin G. Greenland, Joshua Pinskier, Xing Wang, Daniel Nguyen, Ge Shi, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Jen Jen Chung, David Howard
2024 A conf
A 'MAP' to find high-performing soft robot designs: Traversing complex design spaces using MAP-elites and Topology Optimization.
IROS
Yue Xie, Joshua Pinskier, Lois Liow, David Howard, Fumiya Iida
2024 J jnl
A 'MAP' to find high-performing soft robot designs: Traversing complex design spaces using MAP-elites and Topology Optimization.
CoRR
Yue Xie, Joshua Pinskier, Lois Liow, David Howard, Fumiya Iida
2024 J jnl
A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming.
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Lois Liow, James Brett, Joshua Pinskier, Lauren Hanson, Louis Tidswell, Navinda Kottege, David Howard
2024 J jnl
A Review of Differentiable Simulators.
IEEE Access
Rhys Newbury, Jack Collins, Kerry He, Jiahe Pan, Ingmar Posner, David Howard, Akansel Cosgun
2024 J jnl
A Review of Differentiable Simulators.
CoRR
Rhys Newbury, Jack Collins, Kerry He, Jiahe Pan, Ingmar Posner, David Howard, Akansel Cosgun
2024 J jnl
Alternative Interfaces for Human-initiated Natural Language Communication and Robot-initiated Haptic Feedback: Towards Better Situational Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration.
CoRR
Callum Bennie, Bridget Casey, Cécile Paris, Dana Kulic, Brendan Tidd, Nicholas Lawrance, Alex Pitt, Fletcher Talbot, Jason Williams, David Howard, Pavan Sikka, Hashini Senaratne
2024 B conf
Automating Robot Design with Multi-Level Evolution.
CEC
Geoff Nitschke, David Howard, Bilal Aslan
2024 J jnl
DexGrip: Multi-modal Soft Gripper with Dexterous Grasping and In-hand Manipulation Capacity.
CoRR
Xing Wang, Liam Horrigan, Joshua Pinskier, Ge Shi, Vinoth Viswanathan, Lois Liow, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Jen Jen Chung, David Howard
2024 J jnl
Diversity-Based Topology Optimization of Soft Robotic Grippers.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Joshua Pinskier, Xing Wang, Lois Liow, Yue Xie, Prabhat Kumar, Matthijs Langelaar, David Howard
2024 — conf
Evolution of Material Properties and Gripping Strategy in Soft Robotic Jamming Devices.
GECCO Companion
Seth G. Fitzgerald, Sarah Baldwin, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard, Frédéric Maire
2024 A conf
Evolutionary Exploration of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces via Quality Diversity.
GECCO
Jordan T. Bishop, Jason Jooste, David Howard
2024 J jnl
Evolutionary Seeding of Diverse Structural Design Solutions via Topology Optimization.
ACM Trans. Evol. Learn. Optim.
Yue Xie, Joshua Pinskier, Xing Wang, David Howard
2024 — conf
Fin-QD: A Computational Design Framework for Soft Grippers: Integrating MAP-Elites and High-fidelity FEM.
RoboSoft
Yue Xie, Xing Wang, Fumiya Iida, David Howard
2024 — conf
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation.
RoboSoft
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 J jnl
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation.
CoRR
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 — conf
Learning Classifier Systems as a Solver for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus.
GECCO Companion
Cameron Coombe, David Howard, Will N. Browne
2024 — conf
Machine Learning Accelerated Prediction of 3D Granular Flows in Hoppers.
ICANN (9)
Duy Le, Linh Nguyen, Truong Phung, David Howard, Gayan Kahandawa, M. Manzur Murshed, Gary W. Delaney
2024 A conf
PINN-Ray: A Physics-Informed Neural Network to Model Soft Robotic Fin Ray Fingers.
IROS
Xing Wang, Joel Janek Dabrowski, Joshua Pinskier, Lois Liow, Vinoth Viswanathan, Richard Scalzo, David Howard
2024 J jnl
PINN-Ray: A Physics-Informed Neural Network to Model Soft Robotic Fin Ray Fingers.
CoRR
Xing Wang, Joel Janek Dabrowski, Joshua Pinskier, Lois Liow, Vinoth Viswanathan, Richard Scalzo, David Howard
2024 J jnl
SoGraB: A Visual Method for Soft Grasping Benchmarking and Evaluation.
CoRR
Benjamin G. Greenland, Joshua Pinskier, Xing Wang, Daniel Nguyen, Ge Shi, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Jen Jen Chung, David Howard
2024 — conf
Towards Bespoke Soft Grippers through Voxel-Scale Metamaterial Topology Optimisation.
RoboSoft
Joshua Pinskier, James Brett, David Howard
2024 J jnl
Whole-Body Dynamic Throwing with Legged Manipulators.
CoRR
Humphrey Munn, Brendan Tidd, David Howard, Marcus Gallagher
2023 J jnl
A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming.
CoRR
Lois Liow, James Brett, Joshua Pinskier, Lauren Hanson, Louis Tidswell, Navinda Kottege, David Howard
2023 — conf
A Comprehensive Dataset of Grains for Granular Jamming in Soft Robotics: Grip Strength and Shock Absorption.
RoboSoft
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford, Therese Joseph, Sophia Lin, Sarah Baldwin, Gary W. Delaney
2023 — conf
Active Vibration Fluidization for Granular Jamming Grippers.
RoboSoft
Cameron Coombe, James Brett, Raghav Mishra, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard
2023 — conf
Automated design of pneumatic soft grippers through design-dependent multi-material topology optimization.
RoboSoft
Joshua Pinskier, Prabhat Kumar, Matthijs Langelaar, David Howard
2023 Misc conf
Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration: Why, How, When, and for Whom.
OZCHI
Stine S. Johansen, Hashini Senaratne, Alan Burden, Melanie J. McGrath, Claire M. Mason, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Jared Donovan, Andreas Duenser, Matthias Guertler, David Howard, Yanrang Jiang, Cécile Paris, Markus Rittenbruch, Jonathan Roberts
2023 J jnl
Ethical risks of AI-designed products: bespoke surgical tools as a case study.
AI Ethics
David M. Douglas, Justine Lacey, David Howard
2023 J jnl
Fin-QD: A Computational Design Framework for Soft Grippers: Integrating MAP-Elites and High-fidelity FEM.
CoRR
Yue Xie, Xing Wang, Fumiya Iida, David Howard
2023 B conf
Measuring Situational Awareness Latency in Human-Robot Teaming Experiments.
RO-MAN
Hashini Senaratne, Alex Pitt, Fletcher Talbot, Peyman Moghadam, Pavan Sikka, David Howard, Jason Williams, Dana Kulic, Cécile Paris
2023 — conf
The Jamming Donut: A Free-Space Gripper Based on Granular Jamming.
RoboSoft
Therese Joseph, Sarah Baldwin, Lillian Guan, James Brett, David Howard
2023 J jnl
Topology optimization of fluidic pressure-driven multi-material compliant mechanisms.
CoRR
Prabhat Kumar, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Matthijs Langelaar
2022 J jnl
A Comprehensive Dataset of Grains for Granular Jamming in Soft Robotics: Grip Strength and Shock Absorption.
CoRR
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford, Therese Joseph, Sophia Lin, Sarah Baldwin, Gary W. Delaney
2022 J jnl
Active Vibration Fluidization for Granular Jamming Grippers.
CoRR
Cameron Coombe, James Brett, Raghav Mishra, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard
2022 J jnl
Assessing Evolutionary Terrain Generation Methods for Curriculum Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
David Howard, Josh Kannemeyer, Davide Dolcetti, Humphrey Munn, Nicole L. Robinson
2022 A conf
Assessing evolutionary terrain generation methods for curriculum reinforcement learning.
GECCO
David Howard, Humphrey Munn, Davide Dolcetti, Josh Kannemeyer, Nicole L. Robinson
2022 J jnl
AutoFac: The Perpetual Robot Machine.
IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell.
Geoff Nitschke, David Howard
2022 J jnl
Automated design of pneumatic soft grippers through design-dependent multi-material topology optimization.
CoRR
Joshua Pinskier, Prabhat Kumar, David Howard, Matthijs Langelaar
2022 J jnl
Editorial: Evolving Robotic Morphologies.
Frontiers Robotics AI
David Howard, Kyrre Glette, Nick Cheney
2022 Misc conf
Empowering People in Human-Robot Collaboration: Bringing Together and Synthesising Perspectives.
OZCHI
Stine S. Johansen, Hashini Senaratne, Alan Burden, David Howard, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Jared Donovan, Andreas Duenser, Matthias Guertler, Melanie J. McGrath, Cécile Paris, Markus Rittenbruch, Jonathan Roberts
2022 J jnl
End-to-End Design of Bespoke, Dexterous Snake-Like Surgical Robots: A Case Study With the RAVEN II.
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Andrew Razjigaev, Ajay K. Pandey, David Howard, Jonathan Roberts, Liao Wu
2022 J jnl
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study.
Ethics Inf. Technol.
David M. Douglas, Justine Lacey, David Howard
2022 J jnl
EvoRobogami: Co-designing with Humans in Evolutionary Robotics Experiments.
CoRR
Zonghao Huang, Quinn Wu, David Howard, Cynthia Sung
2022 A conf
EvoRobogami: co-designing with humans in evolutionary robotics experiments.
GECCO
Zonghao Huang, Quinn Wu, David Howard, Cynthia R. Sung
2022 — conf
Evolving polydisperse soft robotic jamming grippers.
GECCO Companion
Seth G. Fitzgerald, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard, Frédéric Maire
2022 J jnl
From Bioinspiration to Computer Generation: Developments in Autonomous Soft Robot Design.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Joshua Pinskier, David Howard
2022 — conf
Getting a Grip: in Materio Evolution of Membrane Morphology for Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers.
RoboSoft
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford, James Brett, Therese Joseph, Sophia Lin, Daniel Furby, Gary W. Delaney
2022 J jnl
How Rough Is the Path? Terrain Traversability Estimation for Local and Global Path Planning.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Gabriel Günter Waibel, Tobias Löw, Mathieu Nass, David Howard, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges
2022 J jnl
Human-Robot Team Performance Compared to Full Robot Autonomy in 16 Real-World Search and Rescue Missions: Adaptation of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
CoRR
Nicole L. Robinson, Jason Williams, David Howard, Brendan Tidd, Fletcher Talbot, Brett Wood, Alex Pitt, Navinda Kottege, Dana Kulic
2022 A conf
Jammkle: Fibre jamming 3D printed multi-material tendons and their application in a robotic ankle.
IROS
Joshua Pinskier, James Brett, Lauren Hanson, Katrina Lo Surdo, David Howard
2022 J jnl
Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review of Design, Fabrication, Modeling, Sensing, Control and Applications.
IEEE Access
Matheus S. Xavier, Charbel Tawk, Ali Zolfagharian, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Taylor R. Young, Jiewen Lai, Simon M. Harrison, Yuen Kuan Yong, Mahdi Bodaghi, Andrew J. Fleming
2022 J jnl
The Jamming Donut: A Free-Space Gripper based on Granular Jamming.
CoRR
Therese Joseph, Sarah Baldwin, Lillian Guan, James Brett, David Howard
2021 J jnl
A Review of Physics Simulators for Robotic Applications.
IEEE Access
Jack Collins, Shelvin Chand, Anthony Vanderkop, David Howard
2021 J jnl
Environmental Adaptation of Robot Morphology and Control Through Real-World Evolution.
Evol. Comput.
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, David Howard, Jim Tørresen, Kyrre Glette
2021 A conf
Evolving soft robotic jamming grippers.
GECCO
Seth G. Fitzgerald, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard, Frédéric Maire
2021 J jnl
Follow the Gradient: Crossing the Reality Gap using Differentiable Physics (RealityGrad).
CoRR
Jack Collins, Ross Brown, Jürgen Leitner, David Howard
2021 J jnl
Getting a Grip: in Materio Evolution of Membrane Morphology for Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers.
CoRR
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford, James Brett, Therese Joseph, Sophia Lin, Daniel Furby, Gary W. Delaney
2021 J jnl
Jammkle: Fibre jamming 3D printed multi-material tendons and their application in a robotic ankle.
CoRR
James Brett, Katrina Lo Surdo, Lauren Hanson, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard
2021 A* conf
Model Identification of a Small Fully-Actuated Aquatic Surface Vehicle Using a Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network.
ICRA
Marin Dimitrov, Keir Groves, David Howard, Barry Lennox
2021 J jnl
Moral responsibility for computationally designed products.
AI Ethics
David M. Douglas, David Howard, Justine Lacey
2021 J jnl
Multi-Level Evolution for Robotic Design.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Shelvin Chand, David Howard
2021 J jnl
Real-world embodied AI through a morphologically adaptive quadruped robot.
Nat. Mach. Intell.
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Jim Tørresen, Kyrre Glette, David Howard
2021 J jnl
Semi-Supervised Gated Recurrent Neural Networks for Robotic Terrain Classification.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Tønnes F. Nygaard, Navinda Kottege, David Howard, Nicolas Hudson
2021 — conf
Shape, Size, and Fabrication Effects in 3D Printed Granular Jamming Grippers.
RoboSoft
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, James Brett, Gary W. Delaney
2021 J jnl
Shape, Size, and Fabrication Effects in 3D Printed Granular Jamming Grippers.
CoRR
David Howard, Jack O'Connor, James Brett, Gary W. Delaney
2021 A conf
SnakeRaven: Teleoperation of a 3D Printed Snake-like Manipulator Integrated to the RAVEN II Surgical Robot.
IROS
Andrew Razjigaev, Ajay K. Pandey, David Howard, Jonathan Roberts, Liao Wu
2021 J jnl
Three-Dimensional Mapping with Augmented Navigation Cost through Deep Learning.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst.
Felipe G. Oliveira, Armando Alves Neto, David Howard, Paulo V. K. Borges, Mario F. M. Campos, Douglas G. Macharet
2021 J jnl
Vibration Improves Performance in Granular Jamming Grippers.
CoRR
Raghav Mishra, Tyson Philips, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard
2020 J jnl
Benchmarking Simulated Robotic Manipulation Through a Real World Dataset.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Jack Collins, Jessie McVicar, David Wedlock, Ross Brown, David Howard, Jürgen Leitner
2020 J jnl
Crossing the Reality Gap with Evolved Plastic Neurocontrollers.
CoRR
Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, Sreenatha G. Anavatti
2020 J jnl
Diversity-based Design Assist for Large Legged Robots.
CoRR
David Howard, Thomas Lowe, Wade Geles
2020 J jnl
Environmental Adaptation of Robot Morphology and Control through Real-world Evolution.
CoRR
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, David Howard, Jim Tørresen, Kyrre Glette
2020 — conf
Evolving Spiking Neurocontrollers for UAVs.
SSCI
Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, Sreenatha G. Anavatti
2020 J jnl
Parameter Optimization and Learning in a Spiking Neural Network for UAV Obstacle Avoidance Targeting Neuromorphic Processors.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
Llewyn Salt, David Howard, Giacomo Indiveri, Yulia Sandamirskaya
2020 J jnl
Path Towards Multilevel Evolution of Robots.
CoRR
Shelvin Chand, David Howard
2020 — conf
Path towards multilevel evolution of robots.
GECCO Companion
Shelvin Chand, David Howard
2020 J jnl
Real World Morphological Evolution is Feasible.
CoRR
Tønnes F. Nygaard, David Howard, Kyrre Glette
2020 — conf
Real world morphological evolution is feasible.
GECCO Companion
Tønnes F. Nygaard, David Howard, Kyrre Glette
2020 J jnl
Semi-supervised Gated Recurrent Neural Networks for Robotic Terrain Classification.
CoRR
Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Tønnes F. Nygaard, Navinda Kottege, David Howard, Nicolas Hudson
2020 A conf
Towards crossing the reality gap with evolved plastic neurocontrollers.
GECCO
Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, Sreenatha G. Anavatti
2020 J jnl
Traversing the Reality Gap via Simulator Tuning.
CoRR
Jack Collins, Ross Brown, Jürgen Leitner, David Howard
2019 J jnl
Benchmarking Simulated Robotic Manipulation through a Real World Dataset.
CoRR
Jack Collins, Jessie McVicar, David Wedlock, Ross Brown, David Howard, Jürgen Leitner
2019 B conf
Comparing Direct and Indirect Representations for Environment-Specific Robot Component Design.
CEC
Jack Collins, Ben Cottier, David Howard
2019 J jnl
Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Nonlinear Control Problems.
CoRR
Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, Sreenatha G. Anavatti
2019 J jnl
Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines.
CoRR
David Howard, Ágoston E. Eiben, Danielle Frances Kennedy, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Philip Valencia, David A. Winkler
2019 J jnl
Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines.
Nat. Mach. Intell.
David Howard, Ágoston E. Eiben, Danielle Frances Kennedy, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Philip Valencia, David A. Winkler
2019 J jnl
Parameter Optimization and Learning in a Spiking Neural Network for UAV Obstacle Avoidance targeting Neuromorphic Processors.
CoRR
Llewyn Salt, David Howard, Giacomo Indiveri, Yulia Sandamirskaya
2019 A* conf
Quantifying the Reality Gap in Robotic Manipulation Tasks.
ICRA
Jack Collins, David Howard, Jürgen Leitner
2019 C conf
Utilising Evolutionary Algorithms to Design Granular Materials for Industrial Applications.
ICMLA
Gary W. Delaney, David Howard, Krystal De Napoli
2018 — conf
Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Nonlinear Control Problems.
SSCI
Huanneng Qiu, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, Sreenatha G. Anavatti
2018 J jnl
Quantifying the Reality Gap in Robotic Manipulation Tasks.
CoRR
Jack Collins, David Howard, Jürgen Leitner
2018 J jnl
Towards the Targeted Environment-Specific Evolution of Robot Components.
CoRR
Jack Collins, Wade Geles, David Howard, Frédéric Maire
2018 A conf
Towards the targeted environment-specific evolution of robot components.
GECCO
Jack Collins, Wade Geles, David Howard, Frédéric Maire
2017 J jnl
A Platform That Directly Evolves Multirotor Controllers.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput.
David Howard
2017 A* conf
A testbed that evolves hexapod controllers in hardware.
ICRA
Huub Heijnen, David Howard, Navinda Kottege
2017 J jnl
Differential Evolution and Bayesian Optimisation for Hyper-Parameter Selection in Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic Circuits Applied to UAV Obstacle Avoidance.
CoRR
Llewyn Salt, David Howard, Giacomo Indiveri, Yulia Sandamirskaya
2016 — conf
Towards Evolved Time to Contact Neurocontrollers for Quadcopters.
ACALCI
David Howard, Farid Kendoul
2015 A conf
A platform for the direct hardware evolution of quadcopter controllers.
IROS
David Howard, Torsten Merz