Pride on Ice Wednesday, June 23rd | 4:30-6:00 pm Penn Ice Rink (3130 Walnut St) Be part of Penn on Ice, an interactive experience, and join us for free skating (or skate watching), great music, and loads of LGBTQ+ pride! Come in pride finery or as you are, as we will have some fun swag […]
Robot motion planning is a field that encompasses many different problems and algorithms. From the traditional piano mover's problem to more complicated kinodynamic planning problems, motion planning requires a broad breadth of human expertise and time to design well functioning algorithms. A traditional motion planning pipeline consists of modeling a system and then designing a […]
Join Zoom Meeting: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99334915941?pwd=eDRXV1lITDlySXFyRHUyUzdmRldoQT09 Meeting ID: 993 3491 5941 Passcode: 189247 PSOC@Penn Summer Webinars 2021 Contact manu@seas.upenn.edu with any questions Kevin Tharp 12:00-12:30 PM Keshav Patil 12:30-1:00 PM
Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. In this talk I will present the overall system—design, hardware, and software—for Quori, a novel, affordable, socially interactive humanoid robot platform for facilitating non-contact human-robot interaction(HRI) research. The design of the system is motivated by feedback sampled from the HRI […]
LGBTQ+ Pride Trivia Night Wednesday, June 30th | 8pm ET Register here: bit.ly/queertriviareg What was the first campus LGBTQ+ center in Pennsylvania? Yes, Penn! Join us from wherever you are for a fun night of interactive LGBTQ+ trivia with the LGBT Center and PennGALA to end pride month with a bang! Alum, graduate and undergraduate students, […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Michelle Johnson are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Kevin Bui. Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96436500457?pwd=OUVTSjNpNWp1Z0dGVnpyaVJUa0VHQT09 Meeting ID: 964 3650 0457 Passcode: 571655
Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are a naturally abundant polymer and have superior mechanical properties, high aspect ratios, are transparent and biodegradable, which make them attractive to be used in structural materials. As a reinforcing phase, CNFs have the potential to improve the mechanical properties of polymer materials. While there are active research efforts aimed at incorporating […]
Thesis Title: Balancing Fit and Complexity in Learned Representations Abstract: This dissertation is about learning representations of functions while restricting complexity. In machine learning, maximizing the fit and minimizing the complexity are two conflicting objectives. Common approaches to this problem involve solving a regularized empirical minimization problem, with a complexity measure regularizer and a regularizing […]
Underwater swimmers present unique opportunities for using bodily reconfiguration for self-propulsion. Origami-inspired designs are low-cost, fast to fabricate, robust, and can be used to create compliant mechanisms useful in energy-efficient underwater locomotion. This thesis demonstrates an origami-inspired robot that can change its body shape to ingest and expel water, creating a jet that propels it […]
Join Zoom Meeting: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99334915941?pwd=eDRXV1lITDlySXFyRHUyUzdmRldoQT09 Meeting ID: 993 3491 5941 Passcode: 189247 PSOC@Penn Summer Webinars 2021 Contact manu@seas.upenn.edu with any questions Indrajit Tah 12:00-12:30 PM Chris Price 12:30-1:00 PM
Abstract: Colloidal particles accumulate and organize at fluid interfaces via capillary interactions. We study pair interactions and structure formation around spherical particles with pinned contact lines. Particles attract to apparent contact and organize in near trapped structures that reflect the underlying curvature field. We have derived pair potentials to describe these interactions. The particles distort […]
In the late 1940s, John von Neumann first introduced the concept of self-replication as a way of furthering cellular reproduction research. By the late ‘50s and ’60s this research diverges along two separate paths: cellular automata replication with a focus on biological systems and robotics/machine replication. Generally the work in robotic systems focuses on the […]