Use robot to bend flexible wire to specific shape as tools with optimal control and active learning
Our goal in general is to construct a systematic method for using a soft, bendable rod as a tool.
Consider a soft wire with fixed length held by two robot grippers, related work done by Timothy Bretl's lab proved that any curve traced by this wire when in static equilibrium is a local solution to a geometric optimal control problem.
Based on this framework, the shape of a flexible wire can be predicted given the specification of the two endpoints of the wire.