open letter from Prof. Mark Cutkosky to prospective applicants: Dear Prospective Applicants and Visitors, Thank you very much for your interest in research in the ...
BdmlGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, AlanAsbeck, SalomonTrujillo, AaronParness, SanjayDastoor, NoeEsparza, BarrettHeyneman ...
PrototypeThree (link) Sweep Settings on CFG250 The documentation for the freq generator is very poor. Playing around with the settings, I came up with the follwoing ...
Climbing Adhesion This page consolidates work started under a couple of different projects including ClimbingRobot, with the goal of creating patches of synthetic ...
Climbing Adhesion Publications #RateDependent09 Nick Gravish, Matt Wilkinson, Simon Sponberg, Aaron Parness, Noe Esparza, Daniel Soto, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Michael Broide ...
SamsonPhan 20 Mar 2009 The idea is to have a taxonomy of climbing grasps and attempt to use the eigen grasp dimensionality reduction. Three Distinct Climbing Types ...
ClimbingGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP BdmlGroup, AaroSaunders, AlRizzi, ClarkHaynes, DanGoldman, DanKoditschek, HaldunKomsuoglu, JonathanClark ...
Unfortunately, Craig has vetoed expanding the repertoire of materials at PRL because of inadequate venilation, making it impossible to combine the radial DOF with ...
Mailing Address Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab Center for Design Research 424 Panama Mall, Bldg. 560 Stanford, CA 94305 2232 Phone and Fax Lab: (650 ...
JonathanKarpick 16 Apr 2009 Pictures from Case Western Reserve University's ShowCASE event, 16 April 2009 hexapod climb.avi: Hexapod climber cool servos run ...
the idea is for the ski guide to flop down. We need to figure out how to get it to release. We created this testbed with the spring to be used on the final design ...
6th Quasi Annual BDML backpacking 8Aug09 MarkCutkosky Thinking about a short escape from Stanford before classes start... I don't think I got to the Sierras last ...
EricKent 11 Aug 2009 Weeks from May until 8/7/09 were occupied with: Reading about my post doc's prior research and the forerunner to this project Rosie ...
We have two possibillites for an extending mechanism: Tape measurer, and a powered car antennae. Preliminary tests showed that the tape measurer can extend roughly ...
GripperGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP TWikiAdminGroup, AeroVironment, AlanAsbeck, BarrettHeyneman, AlexisLD, KimHarrison Persons ...
HAAS Info Page Over summer of 2008 I created new Pro/E postprocessor files for our HAAS. This required me to do some digging as to how everything works together. ...
HapticsGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, KarlinBark, YongLaePark, LiJiang, WillP, JasonWheeler, MachielVanDerLoos, TauchiUsers ...
Fabricating Hierarchical, Directional Adhesives A challenge in creating hierarchical adhesives is that the manufacturing processes used for creating features at the ...
HumanSafeGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, SamsonPhan, LaurelFullerton, DanAukes, JohnUlmen, BarrettHeyneman, CharlesWampler ...
IR beacon tested by Alfred Frith: Notes: Sunlight instantly saturates signal. Still need to finish comparator design, right now I can view an oscilloscope view of ...
BDML Members Taken Summer 2008. Left To Right: Joan Savall, Ivan Herrera, Taylor Cone, Mark Cutkosky, Samson Phan, Laurel Fullerton, Pete Shull, Seokchang Ryu (front ...
SamsonPhan 10 Apr 2009 The idea is to have the some sort of conductive paste on a laserCAMM compoatible substrate, then etch away the paste to make very complex circuits ...
SamsonPhan 22 Apr 2009 13 14 spacing poured, cured. Unfortunately, mounted upside down, so when tried to pull our of mold, they all got stuck. Need to remake ...
MatthewNorcia 25 Jun 2009 Week of August 3 This week, I finished construction of the new test plane, then did some test flights and further development. The plane ...
Mobile Manipulation This page is the launching point to find out more about projects in the BDML associated with mobile manipulation. Contents: Active Projects ...
DharmaTamm 25 Jun 2009 Week 0 June 14 19 This week I came in early to get started on my summer research. I met the other people in the lab, and began working. The ...
Robots that Land and Cling on Vertical Surfaces Vision for Perching UAV A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering among the buildings ...
Perching Publications Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan Asbeck and Mark R. Cutkosky, "Scansorial Landing and Perching", Proc. International Symposium on Robotics Research ...
Pro/E Manufacturing Tutorial This is a tutorial for the manufacturing side of Pro/E Wildfire 4.0, which the lab has been slowly migrating to. The contents of this ...
JonathanKarpick 15 Apr 2009 A place to drop some pictures from my simulations of Utah's ROCR robot. Feasible sets for ROCR v3 with a tail swing amplitude of 60 ...
SeabedGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP BarrettHeyneman, JohnUlmen, DanAukes, MarkCutkosky, RoaldValen, OysteinArild, TarjaTikkanen, ...
Logo for Rig AS Private Web for collaborators Contents: Sub Pages Seabed Rig: Underwater Robotics BDML is collaborating with Rig, a Norwegian drilling company ...
Ski Guide The idea is to have a mechanical guide to allow the robot to hug the wall and turn corners. If we drive the motors at slightly different speeds, then we ...
Square One Contents: About Square One One is a multi disciplinary engineering company that specializes in the design and development of innovative automated ...
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Project Milestones Successful test of ski and orientation routine. Scored 36 points in two minutes Wheel hubs have been lasercam'd, toleranced, and inserted into 72mm ...
First Name: UMass Last Name: Amherst Organisation Name: UMass Crosby Research Group Organisation URL: http://www.pse.umass.edu/acrosby/research.html ...
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SamsonPhan 06 Apr 2009 Attempted to get material samples by using sharpened square. Failed because samples are much to distorted. Will have to mold samples instead ...
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AaronParness 02 Dec 2008 Wafer Success List: 02 50s B 20s C 1 20s D 18 Original Squeegies D 19 Best 10s D 5 20s D 11 Chisel C 11 50s C 3 50s C 7 20s E 3 Squeegies ...
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ZmanGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, AlanAsbeck, DraperLab, AlexisLD, SanjayDastoor, NoeEsparza, UMassAmherst Persons ...