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A Sensorized Multicurved Robot Finger with Data-driven Touch Sensing via Overlapping Light Signals
Pedro Piacenza, Keith Behrman, Benedikt Schifferer +2
Despite significant advances in touch and force transduction, tactile sensing is still far from ubiquitous in robotic manipulation. Existing methods for building touch sensors have…
Stimulated Raman with Broadband LED Stokes Source for Analysis of Glucose
Peter Bullen, Ioannis Kymissis, Adler Perotte
We demonstrate stimulated Raman gain using a broadband LED Stokes source to measure vibrational spectra of aqueous glucose solutions. This versatile and cost-effective method incre…
Accurate Contact Localization and Indentation Depth Prediction With an Optics-based Tactile Sensor
Pedro Piacenza, Weipeng Dang, Emily Hannigan +4
Traditional methods to achieve high localization accuracy with tactile sensors usually use a matrix of miniaturized individual sensors distributed on the area of interest. This app…
Touch Sensors with Overlapping Signals: Concept Investigation on Planar Sensors with Resistive or Optical Transduction
Pedro Piacenza, Emily Hannigan, Clayton Baumgart +8
Traditional methods for achieving high localization accuracy on tactile sensors usually involve a matrix of miniaturized individual sensors distributed on the area of interest. Thi…
Contact Localization through Spatially Overlapping Piezoresistive Signals
Pedro Piacenza, Yuchen Xiao, Steve Park +2
Achieving high spatial resolution in contact sensing for robotic manipulation often comes at the price of increased complexity in fabrication and integration. One traditional appro…
Project-based Learning within a Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Research Effort
Robert Margolies, Maria Gorlatova, John Sarik +3
The modern engineering landscape increasingly requires a range of skills to successfully integrate complex systems. Project-based learning is used to help students build profession…
Movers and Shakers: Kinetic Energy Harvesting for the Internet of Things
Maria Gorlatova, John Sarik, Guy Grebla +3
Numerous energy harvesting wireless devices that will serve as building blocks for the Internet of Things (IoT) are currently under development. However, there is still only limite…
Photonic Crystal Spectrometer
Nadia K. Pervez, Warren Cheng, Zhang Jia +3
We demonstrate a new kind of optical spectrometer employing photonic crystal patterns to outcouple waveguided light from a transparent substrate. This spectrometer consists of an a…
Performance of Monolayer Graphene Nanomechanical Resonators with Electrical Readout
Changyao Chen, Sami Rosenblatt, Kirill I. Bolotin +6
The enormous stiffness and low density of graphene make it an ideal material for nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) applications. We demonstrate fabrication and electrical readout of mon…