SML Awarded New Patent
SML was awarded a new patent on APPARATUS WITH A CONTROLLABLE SURFACE FOR UNDERWATER BOUNDARY FLOW.
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Dr. Tan commenting on ACM soft robotics story
Some see soft robots helping declining populations of pollinators do their jobs, or sifting through wreckage in the wake of a building collapse, or even performing simple, practical tasks in tight spaces; others see them traveling the oceans or traversing the insides of our bodies to scope out medical red flags. Some, like Robert Katzschmann, an …
SML soft snake robot paper selected Best Paper finalist at 2020 IEEE RoboSoft
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
Bopardikar and Tan received a NSF grant
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 …
Xiaobo Tan named to Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
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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Using robots to assist neurological impairment recovery
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/
Osama Ennasr Completed PhD Study
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.
Dr. Tan is part of NIH-funded team on octopus research
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
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/
Second US Patent Awarded for Gliding Robotic Fish
Check out the patent here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/~xbtan/News_files/2020/US-Patent-10589829B2-GlidingRoboticFish.pdf