- Email = wrtr@stanford.edu
- Phone = +1 510-229-0413
Research Interests
I am studying birds and insects to design bio-inspired aerial robots that can serve as research platforms for collecting data on ecosystems and the natural environment.
Publications
Roderick, W. R. T., Cutkosky, M. R. & Lentink, D. (2017) Touchdown to take-off: at the interface of flight and surface locomotion. Interface Focus 7, 20160094. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0094
Roderick, W. R. T., Jiang, H., Wang, S., Lentink, D. & Cutkosky, M. R. (2017) Bioinspired Grippers for Natural Curved Surface Perching. In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 604-610). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_56
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., & Cutkosky, M. R. (2017) A Multimodal Robot for Perching and Climbing on Vertical Outdoor Surfaces. IEEE Trans. Robot. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2016.2623346
Wu, X. A., Christensen, D. L., Suresh, S. A., Jiang, H., Roderick, W. R. T. & Cutkosky, M. (2017) Incipient Slip Detection and Recovery for Controllable Gecko-Inspired Adhesion. IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 2, 460–467.http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2636881