Compliant Mechanisms Research Group

Research Assistant

Journal Papers

• Millimeter-Scale Robotic Mechanisms Using Carbon Nanotube Composite Structures published in the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

• A Classification of Action Origami as Systems of Spherical Mechanisms; published in the Journal of Mechanical Design and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC) 

Conference ARticles

• A Meso-scale Rolling-contact Gripping Mechanism for Robotic Surgery, in the proceedings of the 2015 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference

• Design and Fabrication of Millimeter-scale Crossed-cylinder Wrist Mechanism with Two Degrees of Freedom, Published in the 2014 Micro Actuators and Micro Mechanisms Conference

• Oriceps: Origami Inspired Robotic Forceps, published in the 2013 ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference 

Research

• 1st place in the 2015 ASME IDETC graduate Mechanisms and Robotics Design Competition (Split CORE)
• 1st place at the 2013 international ASME IDETC undergraduate
  Mechanisms and Robotics Design Competition (Oriceps)
• Designed robotic surgical equipment under a contract with Intuitive Surgical
• Conducted research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Intuitive Surgical Inc., and NASA
• Prototyped origami-based compliant mechanisms for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory