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    • MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Photophoretic Light-flyers for Mesospheric Applications”

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    Lynch Lecture Hall, Cret Wing, CHEM 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Earth’s mesosphere plays a crucial role in weather forecasting, environmental conservation, and planetary exploration. However, traditional unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as balloons or spacecraft face significant challenges when attempting to access this layer. Balloons and airplanes struggle due to the low pressure, while satellites encounter high aerodynamic drag. To overcome these limitations, we […]

    CBE PhD Thesis Defense: “Electrochemical and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Selected Industrial Commodities”

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    Towne 225

                Novel high-surface-area catalysts were synthesized for selected industrial chemical reactions, conducted in heterogeneous reactors and electrochemical reactors. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) was used to synthesize highly dispersed metal catalysts and to deposit uniform oxide thin films on porous supports.             The interaction between Cu catalyst and its oxide support was studied for the water-gas-shift […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Computationally-constrained Dynamically-feasible Search-based Motion Planning”

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

    Planning fast and autonomous robotic motion in unstructured, cluttered environments remains a core challenge of the robotics community. The robot’s motion must be agile and dynamic, operating near the limit of its physical capabilities, to reach its goal location as quickly as possible. Fast motion in turn creates a need for fast plan computation over […]

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design, Characterization, and Fabrication of Low-Cost, Passive, and Biodegradable Sensors For Precision Agriculture”

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

    With the global population projected to reach 9.1 billion people by 2050 there is a need to develop highly efficient agricultural systems that maximize crop yield. Precision Agriculture (PA) systems enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) offer a potential solution through improvements in labor, resource, and time efficiency to improve agricultural output. PA systems […]

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Addressing Stiffness-induced Challenges In Modeling and Identification of Rigid Body Systems with Frictional Impact”

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    Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    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 feasible in laboratory environments. As robotics expands into complex real-world applications, models must instead be automatically fit to limited data. One major challenge is modeling […]

    MSE PhD Defense: Autonomous Stimuli-Responsive Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers

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    Towne 227 (MEAM Conference Room) 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Numerous responsive materials have been developed in recent decades and applied toward engineering challenges ranging from medicine to robotics. For example, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), hydrogels, shape memory polymers (SMPs), liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), and many other materials can be engineered to respond to many environmental stimuli, such as non-polar solvents, humidity, heat, light, magnetic fields, and […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Decellularized Cartilage for Airway Repair” (Paul Gehret)

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    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. Riccardo Gottardi are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Paul Gehret. Title: “Decellularized Cartilage for Airway Repair”. Date: June 26, 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Wu and Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall The public is welcome to attend. Join Zoom Meeting https://upenn.zoom.us/j/7937445851?pwd=RUJYZFNhOWVyRmM5QzZUb3FoaDRxZz09 […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Multi-robot Coordination Via Graph-based Computation”

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    Towne 337

    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 talk explores the utility of graph-based modeling and computational frameworks to improve the coordination and cooperation of multi-robot teams in a variety of problems. I […]

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design and Self-Reconfiguration Planning for Variable Topology Truss Robots”

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

    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 to address a wider variety of tasks than a robot with a fixed morphology. However, traditional modular architectures fail to scale up to address large-scale […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Novel Applications of In Vivo Assays, Microdialysis and Photoacoustic Ultrasound, Throughout Rat Achilles Tendon Injury and Healing” (Joseph Newton)

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    CRB Auditorium 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Louis Soslowsky are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Joseph Newton. Title: Novel Applications of In Vivo Assays, Microdialysis and Photoacoustic Ultrasound, Throughout Rat Achilles Tendon Injury and Healing Date and Time: June 29th, 10:00am EST Location: CRB Austrian Auditorium Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93571878070?pwd=c2NIN1A5Zmw2M0lZSnQ0d3hmMG52UT09 The […]