Biomimetic Robots Alumni

MattSpenko

• Former DCI postdoctoral fellow
  • Toe and ankle design (FootDesign)
  • Suspension systems for integration of microhairs (MicrohairIntegration)
  • Tipover stability margin for climbing robots (StabilityMargin? )
• Currently Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Trey McClung

• Former Ph.D. student in Biomimetic Robotics
• Thesis: Techniques for dynamic maneuvering of hexapedal legged robots, Stanford University, 2007
• RiSE Work
  • LSAN testing/module integration
  • Accelerometer(link not current) (@foot) analysis
    
  • Aid with straing gage module implementation
  • Performance metrics based on robot sensor and force plate data
    RiSE platform maintenance

Will Provancher

• Former DCI postdoctoral fellow in charge of LegSensingAndActuation and related topics.
• Thesis: "On Tactile Sensing and Display,", Stanford University, 2003.
• Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Utah

SeanBailey

• Former Ph.D. student in Biomimetic Robotics
• Thesis: Biomimetic control with a feedback coupled nonlinear oscillator: Animal experiments, design tools, and robot adaptation results,", Stanford University, 2004
• Currently: working at Function Engineering

JonathanClark

• Former Ph.D. student in Biomimetic Robotics
• Thesis: Biomimetic control with a feedback coupled nonlinear oscillator: Animal experiments, design tools, and robot adaptation results,", Stanford University, 2004
• Currently: DCI postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Kod*lab.

Jorge Cham

• Former Ph.D. student in Biomimetic Robotics
• Thesis: "On Performance and Stability in Open-loop Running,",", Stanford University, 2004
• Currently: Instructor and Researcher at Caltech and author of Piled Higher and Deeper comics.

VirgilioMattoli

• Former visiting scientist working on SensorFabrication and a small ServoDriverController
• Currently at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa