The SML Lab’s soft snake robot paper was selected as a Best Paper finalist at 2020 IEEE’s RobotSoft Conference. Congratulations! A Novel Pneumatic Soft Snake Robot Using Traveling-Wave Locomotion in Constrained EnvironmentsXinda Qi, Hongyang Shi, Thassyo Pinto, Xiaobo Tan Check out the Best Paper awards here: https://www.robosoft2020.org/#contribute
Picture: Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar (left) and Dr. Xiaobo Tan (right) received a new NSF grant Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Xiaobo Tan, Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations! Read more here: https://ece.msu.edu/news/bopardikar-and-tan-received-nsf-grant An abstract of the project …
Original article here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/news/2020/08/11/advancing-electrical-engineering Xiaobo Tan has been named the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering in the Michigan State University College of Engineering. Tan is an MSU Foundation Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering. He leads MSU’s Smart Microsystems Lab, known for its vibrant activities in underwater …
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Dr. Tan and collaborators were awarded a $700,000 NSF grant for their project soft robotic glove-mediated motor learning. Congratulations! Read about it at MSUToday: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/using-robots-to-assist-neurological-impairment-recovery/
Congratulations to Osama Ennasr, who has successfully completed his PhD study at Michigan State. His dissertation was titled “Gliding Robotic Fish: Design, Collaborative Estimation, and Application to Underwater Sensing”. He is joining the Geospatial Research Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center.
The team hopes to build smart arm prosthetics based on how the octopus controls its arms with a $2.35 million National Institutes of Health grant. Congratulations! Read more at MSUToday: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/no-bones-about-it-octopus-may-be-the-key-to-smart-prosthetics/
Demetris Coleman to give keynote talk at 2020 American Control Conference on his paper Backstepping Control of Gliding Robotic Fish for Trajectory Tracking in 3D Space (authors: Demetris Coleman and Xiaobo Tan) Congratulations! See the other keynote speakers here: http://acc2020.a2c2.org/ri-keynote-speakers/
Check out the patent here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/~xbtan/News_files/2020/US-Patent-10589829B2-GlidingRoboticFish.pdf
Pratap is a 6th year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at Michigan State University. His research focusses on wireless communication for underwater robots. Pratap’s work involves developing underwater autonomous robotic systems and algorithms to address the challenge of alignment control for optical communication. Check out the podcast here: https://impact89fm.org/87280/podcasts/the-sci-files-01-19-2020-pratap-solanki-underwater-robot-communication/ Picture: Pratap and the …
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Researchers at Michigan State University and the US Geological Survey Hammond Bay Biological Station are working on a smart electronic skin or e-skin that can autonomously detect the presence of a sea lamprey when the parasite attaches to the e-skin via suction. Read more at the original article here: https://ijc.org/en/e-skin-technology-could-aid-sea-lamprey-fight Picture: (Left) A suction cup, …
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