Morning Session: 10:30 a.m. to Noon
Welcome by
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Max Mintz, GRASP REU Site Co-Directors
10:30 a.m. Eli Soffer
Rising Junior in Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union
Advised by Professor Michelle Johnson and mentored by Addwiteey Chrungoo
Developing a Graphical User Interface and Improved Trajectory Modelling for Task Oriented Robot Assisted Therapy
10:45 a.m. Hunter Young
Rising Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Advised by Professor Michelle Johnson and mentored by Dalton Banks
Investigating Under-Actuated Robot Hands for Stroke Rehabilitation
11:00 a.m. Michelle Neuburger
Rising Senior in Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College
Advised by Professor Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and mentored by Naomi Fitter
Human-Robot Interaction Through Cooperative Hand-Clapping Games
11:15 a.m. Lan Pham
Rising Junior in Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University
Advised by Professor Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and mentored by Rebecca Pierce
Refining and Testing a Wearable Tactile-Feedback Device for Telerobotics
11:30 a.m. Armon Shariati
Rising Senior in Computer Engineering at Lehigh University
Advised by Professor CJ Taylor and mentored by Anthony Cowley
A General Platform for Immersive Virtual Reality and Interactive Manipulation with Haptic Feedback via Motion Capture
11:45 a.m. Kam Hou U
Rising Senior in Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University
Advised by Professor Mark Yim and mentored by Tarik Tosun
Design of a Control and Communication Framework for the SMORES Robots
Afternoon Session: 1:30 a.m. to 3:00p.m.
Welcome by Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Max Mintz, GRASP REU Site Co-Directors
1:30 p.m. Samer Nashed
Rising Senior in Computer Science and Physics at Swarthmore College
Advised by Professor Vijay Kumar and mentored by Justin Thomas and Monroe Kennedy
Decentralized Cooperative Towing using Implicit Communication
1:45 p.m. Aaron Effron
Rising Senior in Physics at Yale University
Advised by Professor Dan Koditschek and mentored by Garrett Wenger
Tail Effector Manipulation for Improved Jumping Actuation in a Hexapedal Robot
2:00 p.m. Sarah Cen
Rising Junior in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
Advised by Professor Vijay Kumar and mentored by Sarah Tang and Mickey Whitzer
Autonomous Flight and Landing of a Quadrotor on a Moving Ground Vehicle Using April Tag Vision-Based Control
2:15 p.m. Cody Worth
Senior in Computer Science and Mathematics at Lamar University
Advised by Dr. Ufuk Topcu and mentored
by Dr. Jie Fu
Automata Learning for Autonomous, Reactive Systems
2:30 p.m. Lisa Lee
Rising Senior in Mathematics at Princeton University
Advised by Professor Eric Eaton and mentored by Dr. Haitham Bou Ammar and Chris Clingerman
Robotic Search & Rescue via Online Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
2:45 p.m. Peter Wei
Rising Senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Advised by Professor Dan Lee and mentored by Chris Clingerman
Dynamic Replanning with Manipulability Estimation and Probabilistic Costmaps
Many thanks to the advisors, mentors, colleagues, staff, GRASP Lab, and
larger Penn community for helping make the third year of the GRASP REU
Site such a success. We are especially indebted to Charity Payne and Shafag Idris for
their excellent work in running the program this summer. We also
appreciate the service of the judges for the presentations.
Congratulations to all twelve GRASP REU students!