arxivcs.RO2026-07-22
Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
Sebastian Lorca Godoy, Ciera McFarland, Michael Val, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Nathaniel Hanson, Margaret McGuinness
Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we present a sound-based system for localizing disaster victims in confined and unstructured environments, based on a distributed acoustic sensing architecture embedded alon…