merged design automation with sas and ns

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+The design of soft robots is primarily undertaken by teams of human designers, and their fabrication relies on traditional manufacturing processes like silicone casting. We explore the fabrication of print-in-place soft robots by additive manufacturing. Advanced additive manufacturing eliminates time-consuming manual fabrication steps as well as fabrication constraints inherent in traditional fabrication processes.
+Additionally, we discover novel soft robot designs through automated, algorithm-driven processes, which are capable of much broader searches through the rugged design terrain characteristic of the soft robotics field. We envision automated design tools which extend the reach of human design teams, allowing them to more rapidly synthesize complex soft robot designs.
+
 ### Evolving Modular Robots with a Generative Encoding
 
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-### Design Automation
+### A Seamless Workflow for the Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial Soft Actuators
+
 
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-        The design of soft robots is primarily undertaken by teams of human designers, and their fabrication relies on traditional manufacturing processes like silicone casting.
-        <br/><br/>
-        We explore the fabrication of print-in-place soft robots by additive manufacturing. Advanced additive manufacturing eliminates time-consuming manual fabrication steps as well as fabrication constraints inherent in traditional fabrication processes.
+Learn more about our work in lowering barriers to soft actuator design through creation of novel design tools that allow for interactive GUI-based specification of geometry and material distribution, one-click design evaluation via FEA simulation, and automated generation of design files.
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex: 1; margin-left: auto;">
+        <img src="/assets/img/soft-actuator-synthesis/sas1.png" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
+    </div>
+</div>
+<br/><br/>
+
+### Automated Synthesis of Pneumatic Bending Soft Actuators
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+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex: 2;padding-right: 30px;">
+        Explore our work in automatically synthesizing pneumatic bending soft actuators which are simultaneously compliant and forceful. The designs automatically discovered by our method are easily fabricated by 3D printing, and we compare their performance to published results in simulation and by experimentation.
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex: 1; margin-left: auto;">
+        <img src="/assets/img/soft-actuator-synthesis/sas2.png" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
+    </div>
+</div>
+<br/><br/>
+
+### A Seamless Workflow for the Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial Soft Actuators
+
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex: 2;padding-right: 30px;">
+        Learn more about our work in lowering barriers to soft actuator design through creation of novel design tools that allow for interactive GUI-based specification of geometry and material distribution, one-click design evaluation via FEA simulation, and automated generation of design files.
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex: 1; margin-left: auto;">
+        <img src="/assets/img/numerical-simulation/ns1.png" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
+    </div>
+</div>
+<br/><br/>
+
+
+### Shell Finite Elements for Soft Actuator Simulation
+
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex: 2;padding-right: 30px;">
+        Learn why we leverage not only traditional volumetric finite element simulations, but also simulations over dimensionally reduced shell finite elements.
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex: 1; margin-left: auto;">
+        <img src="/assets/img/numerical-simulation/ns2.png" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
+    </div>
+</div>
+<br/><br/>
+
+### Multimaterial Simulation
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex: 2;padding-right: 30px;">
+        We apply automated design techniques to soft robots made from rigid plastics, soft and rubbery elastomers, and water-like liquids. Internal to an automated design routine is some prediction of a candidate robot's behavior - this prediction is made using numerical simulation.
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-        Additionally, we discover novel soft robot designs through automated, algorithm-driven processes, which are capable of much broader searches through the rugged design terrain characteristic of the soft robotics field. We envision automated design tools which extend the reach of human design teams, allowing them to more rapidly synthesize complex soft robot designs.
+        Simulating soft robots is a challenging task, made even more difficult by the geometric complexity of the robots we fabricate. We employ finite element and material point methods to efficiently simulate soft robots, which enables our automated design algorithms to efficiently explore a vast and rugged design space and discover novel soft robot designs.
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-        <img src="/assets/img/design-automation/da2.png" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
+        <img src="/assets/img/numerical-simulation/ns3.gif" alt="Image Description" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; object-fit: cover;">
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_pages/research.md

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