6 papers
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
Airflow Source Seeking on Small Quadrotors Using a Single Flow Sensor
Lenworth Thomas, Tjaden Bridges, Sarah Bergbreiter
As environmental disasters happen more frequently and severely, seeking the source of pollutants or harmful particulates using plume tracking becomes even more important. Plume tra…
Zippy: The smallest power-autonomous bipedal robot
Steven Man, Soma Narita, Josef Macera +3
Miniaturizing legged robot platforms is challenging due to hardware limitations that constrain the number, power density, and precision of actuators at that size. By leveraging des…
Measuring DNA Microswimmer Locomotion in Complex Flow Environments
Taryn Imamura, Teresa A. Kent, Rebecca E. Taylor +1
Microswimmers are sub-millimeter swimming microrobots that show potential as a platform for controllable locomotion in applications including targeted cargo delivery and minimally…
Sensor Placement for Flapping Wing Model Using Stochastic Observability Gramians
Burak BoyacıoÄlu, Mahnoush Babaei, Amanuel H. Mamo +3
Systems in nature are stochastic as well as nonlinear. In traditional applications, engineered filters aim to minimize the stochastic effects caused by process and measurement nois…
Flow Shadowing: A Method to Detect Multiple Flow Headings using an Array of Densely Packed Whisker-inspired Sensors
Teresa A. Kent, Sarah Bergbreiter
Understanding airflow around a drone is critical for performing advanced maneuvers while maintaining flight stability. Recent research has worked to understand this flow by employi…