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 ...
BDML Summer Kickoff 2011 Kickoff Meerting What: Annual retreat to get acquainted with new students and do some summer planning (goals, events, milestones... ...
BdmlGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, SanjayDastoor, NoeEsparza, BarrettHeyneman, AlexisLD, SamsonPhan, SanthiElayaperumal ...
First Name: Ben Last Name: Kallman Country: USA Hometown: Washington, DC Comment:Undergraduate in mechanical engineering My Links BenKallmanSummerBlog ...
BenKallman 16 Jun 2010 Ben Kallman 2010 Summer Blog June 16th First day in the lab. I came in not knowing exactly what to expect and was quickly impressed by the ...
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 #IrradiatedWedges P. Day, M. Cutkosky, R. Greco, and A. Mclaughlin, The effect of He2 Ion Irradiation on Adhesion of Polymer Micro ...
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 ...
This page refers to how to use the Digital JR3 currently installed on Darthsidious (near the Adept). It is on loan from Oussama Khatib's lab and subject to recall ...
Perhaps the problem with focusing on the human prehension is that our "reach exceeds our grasp." And yet there are many insights we can draw from nature in this, as ...
Elena's Perching Page while at Stanford: Research 5Nov2010 Skype with Russ, Mark, Alexis, Elena: What is the current state of the model? DOF 6 (3 plane, ...
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 ...
FTDI USB to Serial Chips The FT232R chips are a nice replacement for direct serial interfaces on any stand alone electronic you design. However, they are more complicated ...
Here is a video clip (AVI format for VLC player, etc.) by AlanAsbeck of frogs grasping and crudely manipulating crickets at actual speed same, at in slow ...
GripperGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP TWikiAdminGroup, AeroVironment, AlanAsbeck, BarrettHeyneman, AlexisLD, KimHarrison Persons ...
Meeting with mark @design time consider the effects of different internal stiffness on hand behavior wrt some set of object and tasks at run time adjust preloads and ...
HapticsGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, TauchiUsers, SeokchangRyu, SanthiElayaperumal, JoanSavall, SamsonPhan, HumanMotion ...
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 ...
First Name: Kelly Last Name: Johnson Organisation Name: Stanford Organisation URL: http://bdml.stanford.edu Country: USA Comment: Course preparation ...
A collection of Lab meeting presentations done over the years. Lab meeting update9 24 2010.pptx:Overview of the Human Safe Robotics research performed and initial ...
BDML Members Taken Summer 2009. Left To Right. Top Row: Julia Lee, Ben Kallman, Santhi Elayaperumal, Eric Eason, Kimberly Harrison. Middle Row: Dan Aukes, Salomon ...
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 ...
First day of poking trials with 15deg, masonite tool being poked into a random clay I found at a 15deg angle. Video shows deformation of the preceding row by the ...
Week 1 June 21 25 Monday I worked on getting the new computer (CNC machine) going by transferring important files from the computer provided by Levil, and got ...
MarkFrykman 19 Jul 2010 Mark Frykman Summer Blog pro/E CAM tutorial: tutorial SolidCAM tutorials: list of tutorials. With Sydney, your SolidCAM Professor ...
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 ...
MattEstrada 21 Jun 2011 Currently moving this over to PM Wiki! http://bdml.stanford.edu/pmwiki/Main/MattEstrada June 20 Introduction to the lab took all day ...
Summer 2011 Research June 23, 2011 Lab retreat. Got very wet. June 22, 2011 Finished laser cutting the different materials this morning. Took pictures and ...
Mobile Manipulation This page is the launching point to find out more about projects in the BDML associated with mobile manipulation. Contents: Active Projects ...
MorganPope 21 Jun 2011 June 20 Orientation from almost all of the lab possible projects include airplane at wall reorientation, Zman human scale, and tactile ...
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 ...
Summer 2011 it's time to start a new wiki platform. Ideally could share same platform choice with Okamura lab so there is a critical mass of people who understand ...
AlexisLD 21 Jul 2008 Links and papers that could be useful for perching Control: To be added Actuators: Hollerbach Hunter Ballantyne 1992 A Comparative ...
BenKallman 17 Jun 2010 Perching Papers Tobalske.pdf "Aerodynamics of wing assisted incline running in birds" Study to determine how birds lift off of incline ...
Robots that Land and Cling on Vertical Surfaces Wiki Vision for Perching UAV A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering among ...
Perching Publications Alexis Lussier Desbiens, Alan T. Asbeck and Mark R. Cutkosky, "Landing, Perching and Taking Off from Vertical Surfaces," published online before ...
Portable Haptics System Hardware Our Portable Haptics System for Gait Retraining consists of five main hardware components: 1 Mobile Phone 1 Microcontroller ...
Portable Haptics System Software Our Portable Haptics System software development consists of two main components: 1 Mobile Phone 1 Microcontroller #AnchMobilePhone ...
Research meeting times Spring 2010 Alexis, Barrett, Dan, Kim, Noe, Paul, Pete, Sal, Samson, Sanjay, Santhi, Seokchang Also check calendar (open) available ...
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 ...
Salomon Trujillo Email: Stanford University Center for Design Research Minor repairs to StickyBot Links StickyBotIII the latest robot in the StickyBot ...
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 ...
The skin sensor currently setup to take data concurrently with encoder data. It is currently setup to run in XPC. Voltage levels are somewhat proportional to the amount ...
Square One Contents: About Square One One is a multi disciplinary engineering company that specializes in the design and development of innovative automated ...
Demo Ideas Demo Outline: Proposed rough outline of demos with SquareOne Gripper on the Adept Video of the Leeper hand mounted on the Adept and controlled ...
Updates from Square One CARMA Manipulator has been built. Occupies roughly 1' cubed. Has linear range of travel of ~2" in all 3 directions Controls and ...
John's visit next week show them the hand and the sensors. give them a chance to see how it works and the type of data we can get from it give them ...
From stanford Sensor Updates Board with 8 cells in process, should be ready fairly soon. 4 cells per "finger" possibly used during a stand alone demo ...
Square One Strip Sensors Overview In order to give Square One a set of sensors that they could quickly work with and begin gathering tactile data, we built a set ...
StephenHibbs 08 Dec 2009 Skin fabrication Outer skin layer made from Wacker Elastosil 3162 (black conductive rubber) as the tough outer layer. Three layers of ...
JuliaLee June 16 Excited to get started! Talked with Alexis regarding possible research projects for the summer and settled on jumping, but also curious about ...
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Thea Tran Summer Projects June 20 Get oriented into the lab, starting summer blog page, etc. Will be working on things related to HapticsForGaitRetraining ...
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 ...
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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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Violeta Crow Summer Projects June 6, 2011: Getting Started Registered on wiki, looking at possible projects including WetAdhesion Observed Kim work and ...
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ZmanGroup Member list (comma separated list): Set GROUP MarkCutkosky, AlanAsbeck, DraperLab, AlexisLD, SanjayDastoor, NoeEsparza, UMassAmherst, MarkFrykman ...