Seminar
MEAM Seminar: “Bistable Robots: Leveraging Task Features for Actuator Reduction”
Moore 212Actuator reduction is especially important for aerial robots, where minimizing mass and conserving power is critical. Bistable mechanisms have been used to augment actuators by speeding up actuation time or […]
PSOC@Penn Seminar: Yiming Wang & Ison Chen
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMEAM Seminar: “Mechanics- Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness”
Towne 337Structural design optimization has long played a crucial role in engineering, often with the goal of creating stiff and lightweight structures for aerospace and other applications. However, optimizing structures against […]
PSOC@Penn Seminar: Geng-Yuan “Scott” Chen & Alisya Anlas
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMEAM Seminar: “Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation of Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAccurate prediction of high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows is essential for the understanding and flow control of many engineering applications such as aircraft, turbomachinery, and marine vehicles. Additionally, most practical flows exhibit […]
Summer 2023 GRASP Seminar: Claire Tomlin, University of California at Berkeley, “Safe Learning in Control”
GRASP Treehouse - Pennovation Complex; LAB Building (Bldg 250 - Suite 250) 3401 Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, United StatesThis is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In many applications of autonomy in robotics, guarantees that constraints are […]
MEAM Seminar: “Hierarchical Methods for Geometric Control of Underactuated, Free-Flying Robotic Systems”
Towne 337Free-flying robotic systems (such as multibody aerial and space vehicles) evolve on high-dimensional non-Euclidean manifolds subject to nonlinear, underactuated dynamics. Because such systems can rely only on the severely limited […]
Nano Seminar: “Conductive Nitrides for Plasmonics in the Visible Region: Properties and Applications”
Room 35, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPlasmonic nanostructure based on silver and gold that produces LSPR to withstand ultrahigh temperatures without damage remains a great challenge for future ultra-compact integrated circuits, and high-power enabled photonic devices. […]
MEAM Seminar: “Photophoretic Levitating Structures Enabling Mesospheric and Martian Exploration”
Towne 337Studying certain regions of the atmosphere is hindered by available propulsion technologies. For example, the mesosphere, ranging from about 50 to 80 km in altitude, has air too thin for […]