I am a PhD candidate working on Multi-Modal Robots. My activities have focused around Jumpgliding, Perching, and combining flying, perching, and climbing in the Stanford Climbing and Aerial Manuevering Platform (SCAMP).
Pope, M.T., Thomas, J.T.., Jiang, H., Estrada, M.A., Kerst, C.F., and Cutkosky, M.R. “Scaling Considerations for Dynamic Perching on Smooth Vertical Surfaces using Onboard Sensing.” In preparation.
Pope, M.T., Kimes, C.W., Jiang, H., Hawkes, E.W., Estrada, M.A., Kerst, C.F., Roderick, W.R.T., Han, A.K., Christensen, D.L., and Cutkosky, M.R. “Robust Perching and Climbing Using Microspines on Vertical Outdoor Surfaces.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In revisions.
Hawkes, E.W., Christensen, D.L., Pope, M.T., and Cutkosky, M.R. "One Motor, Two Degrees of Freedom: Leveraging Dynamic Response for State Control." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Accepted.
Jiang, H., Pope, M.T., Estrada, M.A., Edwards, B., Cuson, M., Hawkes, E.W., Cutkosky, M.R., "Perching Failure Detection and Recovery with Onboard Sensing," IEEE/RSJ IROS 2015 (preprint).
Thomas, J., Loianno, G., Pope, M.T., Hawkes, E.W., Estrada, M.A., Jiang, H., Cutkosky, M.R., and Kumar, V. (2015). "Aggressive Flight for Perching on Inclined Surfaces," ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2015
Pope, M. T., Desbiens, A. L., Christensen, D. L., Hawkes, E. W., & Cutkosky, M. R. (2014). Design principles for efficient, repeated jumpgliding. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 9(2), 25009. doi:10.1088/1748-3182/9/2/025009
This New York Times article covers our quadrotor perching collaboration with UPenn and reviews a lot of other cool related projects in the lab.
PopSci and Gizmodo have some good coverage on our collaboration with the University of Maryland.
Gizmag has one of the best articles on our first Jumpgliding prototype. These articles at Inhabitat and The Tech Journal cover the same basic territory, while this article at Discovery.com refers to our later publication.
Morgan T. Pope PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab mpope [sticky] stanford [bot] edu 418 Panama Mall MERL Bldg 02-660, Rm 132 Stanford, CA 94305