MEAM Seminar: “Hydrogel (fracture) Mechanics with Applications to the Study of Blood Clots”
Blood clotting is primarily responsible for stemming bleeding in vessel injury, comprising a protective mechanism called hemostasis. However, if a blood clot forms within a blood vessel when or where […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Data-Driven Model Discovery for Non-Equilibrium Phenomena: Unraveling Continuum Behavior from Stochastic Dynamics”
Non-equilibrium phenomena are ubiquitous across material systems and of great technological relevance. Examples of such phenomena include diffusion processes in liquid and gases, viscoelasticity and plasticity in solids, and rheological […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Transport and Mixing with Swimming Microorganisms in Chaotic Flows”
Microorganisms, primitive unicellular forms of life, form the basis of the food web and play crucial roles in the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Habitats of microorganisms, from oceans and lakes to […]
MEAM Seminar: “Semantic Localization, Mapping, and Exploration by Multiple Aerial Robots”
Traditional approaches for active mapping focus on building geometric maps. For most real-world applications, however, actionable information is related to semantically meaningful objects in the environment. We propose an approach […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Macrophages & chromosomal instability: From unraveling immunomodulatory interactions to effects of chromosomal instability on macrophage-mediated anti-tumor response” (Brandon Hayes)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Dennis Discher are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Brandon Hayes. Title: Macrophages & chromosomal instability: From […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Adding Actuation to Found Material: A Design Methodology”
Engineers in modern society are taught to design and build structures and robots from pre-processed materials, giving them the ability to describe the operating capacity of their structure with a […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design and Self-Reconfiguration Planning for Variable Topology Truss Robots”
A modular self-reconfigurable robot (MSRR) is a set of robotic building blocks that can be connected together in different ways. By rearranging these connections, the robot can adapt its shape […]
MEAM Seminar: “Multi-robot Coordination Via Graph-based Computation”
Multi-robot coordination and cooperation are critical behaviors that improve team performance and enable new tasks in application areas like autonomous construction, agriculture, and extended operation in large unknown regions. This […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Addressing Stiffness-induced Challenges In Modeling and Identification of Rigid Body Systems with Frictional Impact”
Imperfect but useful dynamical models have enabled significant progress in planning and controlling robotic locomotion and manipulation. Traditionally, these models have been physics-based, with accuracy relying upon manual calibration only […]