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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Toward Agile Legged Locomotion in a Novel Quadrupedal Robot with an Axially Twisting Spine"
DESCRIPTION:With the advent of more capable and cheaper legged robots\, robotic legged locomotion is becoming an increasingly attractive solution for locomotion and embodiment. Legs offer expanded capability over wheeled robots\, albeit at the cost of complexity and efficiency. For example\, walking robots explore rubble-filled caves\, inspect industrial sites\, move around human spaces (e.g.\, stairs)\, and travel in natural environments. Still\, the current capabilities of most robots pale in comparison to most biological-legged locomotors. For instance\, the arboreal squirrel can run from branch to branch\, climb up and down trees\, and leap from surface to surface\, composing strings of maneuvers without slowing or stopping. Taking biology as inspiration\, collaborations with mathematicians\, biomechanists\, paleontologists\, and geologists help us distill down the essential locomotor primitives and morphologies for new\, more agile\, quadrupedal robots. \nMy research focuses on the benefits of adding novel internal degrees of freedom to quadrupeds (namely an axially twisting spine)\, especially in spatial\, transitional maneuvers. In this talk\, I will show some results and preliminary work using physical models and optimization to suggest that investigating spinal degrees of freedom is vital in opening up the capabilities of legged quadrupeds. Next\, I will introduce a novel quadrupedal robot\, Twist\, walk through its design process\, describe the context of its design\, and elaborate on some questions we hope to solve within and outside the field of robotics. Finally\, I will discuss my work toward these transitional (parkour) behaviors in robotics\, particularly regarding moving from a sagittal plane model and robot to an intrinsically spatial\, three-dimensional model and robot.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-toward-agile-legged-locomotion-in-a-novel-quadrupedal-robot-with-an-axially-twisting-spine/
LOCATION:Towne 313\, 220 S. 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Doctoral
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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SUMMARY:Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series: Nick Bronn\, PhD [NISQ era quantum computing] (IBM)
DESCRIPTION:About the Series: The Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series is hosted by the Quantum Engineering Graduate Association (QEGA) every Friday at 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT throughout the summer months and will be followed by a separate Fall series. The series invites leading world leading experts across academia\, industry\, and government working on experimental\, theoretical\, and policy aspects of quantum science and engineering. Each seminar will be followed by a 10 minute networking session with the invited speaker. \nSpeaker List: \nJuly 8th\, 2022 – Jon Felbinger\, PhD [private-public partnerships] (Quantum Economic Development Consortium) \nJuly 15th\, 2022 – William Oliver\, PhD [superconducting qubits] (MIT and MIT Lincoln Labs) \nJuly 22nd\, 2022 – Sinead Griffin\, PhD [novel qubit materials design] (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) \nJuly 29th\, 2022 – Hannes Bernien\, PhD [trapped ion systems] (University of Chicago) \nAugust 5th\, 2022 – Prineha Narang\, PhD [computational quantum dynamics] (Harvard University) \nAugust 12th\, 2022 – Peter McMahon\, PhD [quantum annealing] (Cornell University) \nAugust 19th\, 2022 – Nick Bronn\, PhD [NISQ era quantum computing] (IBM) \nAugust 26th\, 2022 – Riccardo Manenti\, PhD [scalable quantum computing systems] (Rigetti) \nMeeting Information: The seminar series will be a hybrid event with talks broadcasted on campus (Wu and Chen Auditorium\, Levine Hall) and available online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be posted weekly for each individual talk. \nJoin QEGA: The Quantum Engineering Graduate Association (QEGA) is a new organization at Penn founded by Nima Leclerc and Noah Johnson\, two Penn ESE PhD students in the Sigillito Group. QEGA’s goal is to increase graduate student and faculty engagement in quantum engineering at Penn through school-wide events such as this seminar series\, quantum-career networking opportunities\, and a quantum engineering outreach program program. If you would like to stay connected with us\, please email Nima at nleclerc@seas.upenn.edu with the subject line ‘qega listserv’ to get added to our mailing list!
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/quantum-engineering-summer-seminar-series-nick-bronn-phd-nisq-era-quantum-computing-ibm/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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