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MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Bistable Structures Enable Passive Transitions in Mobile Robots”

Towne 319 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, United States

Making robots more capable, agile, and efficient requires careful design of the robot’s mechanical body to match task requirements. Passive components allow a robot to perform a task without a dedicated actuator, often improving both power consumption and overall performance. In this thesis, we investigate robotic applications of bistable mechanisms, mechanical structures that exhibit two […]

MEAM Seminar: “Controlling Contact Transitions for Dynamic Robots”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Legged robots, robotic manipulators, and their combined embodiment as humanoid robots have received considerable attention across both academia and industry. However, with few notable exceptions, state-of-the-art demonstrations are significantly less dynamic than their biological counterparts. A considerable challenge for performing more dynamic tasks for both legged robots and robotics manipulators lies within controlling contact interactions […]

ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Engineering copper-vacancy color centers in zinc sulfide for quantum defect discovery”

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Photoluminescent point defects, or color centers, in wide-bandgap semiconductors are important platforms for quantum information science because they can be operated as solid-state quantum spin-light interfaces. Implementing so-called defect qubits in an expanded variety of materials systems is beneficial for applications, since the host-defect material properties determine operating parameters such as emission wavelength, spin coherence […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of the Cardiovascular System”

Towne 319 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, United States

Patient-specific computational modeling and simulation has become a routine part of cardiovascular clinical research. These techniques leverage medical imaging to construct subject-specific models that can be used to study disease processes, design and evaluate medical devices, perform predictive surgery, and aid in clinical decision-making. Modern cardiovascular simulations often require millions of elements and tens of […]

MEAM Seminar: “Rapidly Understanding Novel Object Dynamics for Robotic Manipulation”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The field of robotic manipulation is attempting to expand from structured warehouse and lab environments to in-the-wild applications in human-centric settings. When deployed in novel settings, a robot may see and need to interact with a new object for the first time. Model-based control approaches rely on a priori dynamics models, an assumption that does […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Harnessing the Regenerative Characteristics of Meniscus Superficial Zone Cells” (Sereen Assi)

Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Yale Cohen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Sereen Assi. Title: Harnessing the Regenerative Characteristics of Meniscus Superficial Zone Cells Date: June 25, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall Zoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93851147060?pwd=NEh0QmN4Z2sxVkhIb2l0d3c3cWlaZz09 The public is welcome to attend.

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Lipid Nanoparticles Allow Intracellular Protein Delivery for Modulation of Difficult Therapeutic Targets” (Rebecca Haley)

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Mike Mitchell are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rebecca Haley. Title: Lipid Nanoparticles allow Intracellular Protein Delivery for Modulation of Difficult Therapeutic Targets Date: June 26, 2024 Time: 11:30am Location: Levine Hall, Wu & Chen Auditorium Zoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93908532827, Meeting ID: 939 0853 2827 The […]

ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Mobile Mission Planning in Uncertain Environments”

Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Robotic mission planning in uncertain environments remains a formidable challenge due to environmental complexity and sensor noise. This dissertation introduces new methodologies to tackle these issues. We develop a method for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) planning, extending it to completely unknown environments to enable dynamic understanding and task fulfillment. Large language models (LLMs) are also […]

ESE Seminar: “Fluorite and Wurtzite Structure Ferroelectrics. From Fundamentals to Semiconductor Applications”

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Ferroelectric properties were initially discovered in perovskite-structured materials over a century ago. However, it was only in the last two decades that these properties were confirmed in fluorite-structured doped HfO2 and wurtzite-structured AlN films, respectively. The ferroelectricity in doped HfO2 or ZrO2 has been attributed to a previously unknown non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic Pca21 phase, while it […]

Summer 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Sami Atiya, ABB Ltd., “The Evolution of Robotics/AI: an Industry Perspective”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held in-person in Wu and Chen as well as virtually via Zoom. ABSTRACT Since its inception, Robotics has constantly used technological developments to address new customer needs. These developments have occurred in two areas: mechatronics and software & control. Mechatronic advances made robots stronger, faster, and more accurate. In parallel, software […]