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Exploring the limits of robotic systems
June 26th, 2024
University of Pennsylvania’s Cynthia Sung On How We Can Increase Girls’ Participation in Engineering and Robotics
Despite the growing importance of engineering and robotics in shaping our future, women remain significantly underrepresented in these fields. This series aims to explore and address the barriers that discourage girls from pursuing careers in engineering…
GRASP Lab’s Award-Winning Automated System for Printing Origami Robots Could Democratize the Robot Design Process
Researchers in the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania are developing an algorithm for designing functioning robots through folding. The paper that details the design and code behind the project, Kinegami: Algorithmic Design of Compliant Kinematic Chains From Tubular Origami…
AEOP Army Educational Outreach Program
To provide an accessible pathway of STEM opportunities to attract, develop, and mentor the next generation of our nation’s diverse talent through U.S. Army educational outreach programs.
GRASP Lab Virtual Facility Tour
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I'm excited to share our recent projects:
1. A novel global yaw parameterization for trajectory optimization, accepted by IROS 2024. preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17067
2. A risk-aware multi-robot tracking with danger zones, accepted by DARS 2024. preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07880
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Yim, Hyeongyu Yoon, Jangho Bae, Haorui Li, and TaeWon Seo for winning the Best Paper Award on Robot Self-Reconfiguration at ReMAR 2024!!!
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In late June, Jessica Weakly successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Bistable Structures Enable Passive Transitions in Mobile Robots."
Throughout her PhD journey, one exciting memory was witnessing her robot soaring over Franklin Field.
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