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However, the major challenge is the significant motion uncertainties due to the robot compliance, ground interactions, and limited available sensing. These uncertainties prevent high-level control implementation, such as autonomous navigation, to be performed successfully. Therefore, soft robots require robust design methods, as well as path following and path planning algorithms, to mitigate these uncertainties and enable autonomy. This dissertation develops and implements autonomous navigation for a novel origami-enabled soft crawling autonomous robot called OSCAR. In order to implement autonomous navigation, it first mitigates the OSCAR’s motion uncertainties by a multi-step iterative design process. Analysis has shown that OSCAR’s motion uncertainties are the result of: (i) the ground-feet interaction, (ii) effectiveness of low-level closed-loop control and, (iii) variability in the manufacturing assembly process. The iterative control-oriented design allows a robust and reliable OSCAR performance and enables high-level path following control implementation. To design and implement path following control, this research presents an idealized kinematic model and introduces an empirically based correction to make the model predictions match the experimental data. The dissertation investigates two separate path-following controllers: a model-based pure pursuit and a feedback controller. The controllers are investigated in both simulation and experiment and the need for feedback is clearly demonstrated. Finally, this research presents the path planning in order to complete OSCAR’s autonomous navigation. The simulation and experimental results show that OSCAR can accurately navigate in a 2D environment while avoiding static obstacles. 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Therefore, soft robots require robust design methods, as well as path following and path planning algorithms, to mitigate these uncertainties and enable autonomy. This dissertation develops and implements autonomous navigation for a novel origami-enabled soft crawling autonomous robot called OSCAR. In order to implement autonomous navigation, it first mitigates the OSCAR’s motion uncertainties by a multi-step iterative design process. Analysis has shown that OSCAR’s motion uncertainties are the result of: (i) the ground-feet interaction, (ii) effectiveness of low-level closed-loop control and, (iii) variability in the manufacturing assembly process. The iterative control-oriented design allows a robust and reliable OSCAR performance and enables high-level path following control implementation. 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