Congratulations to Yayun for defending her Ph.D. thesis titled “Dynamic modeling of soft flagellar locomotion in viscous fluids and granular media” today! She is now officially the second Ph.D. graduate of Structures-Computer Interaction Lab. All the best in her future endeavors as she will continue her academic journey as a Postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University at the Rogers Research Group.
Our recent work on "Critical Evaluation of Resistive Force Theory using a Machine Learning Assisted Model" is available.
Link to pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.09422
Our recent work on "A Fully Implicit Method for Robust Frictional Contact Handling in Elastic Rods" is available.
Link to pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.10309
Our work on modeling articulated soft robots in granular medium has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3173036
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X5xtlZD6EvE
A 4-minute presentation by Yayun Du, Guofeng Zhang, and Darren Tsang on "Deep-CNN based Robotic Multi-Class Under-Canopy Weed Control in Precision Farming" for ICRA 2022 is available.
Link to video: https://youtu.be/mLXtLS94m38
Link to pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.13986
A 4-minute presentation by Andrew Choi on "Preemptive Motion Planning for Human-to-Robot Indirect Placement Handovers" for ICRA 2022 is available.
Link to video: https://youtu.be/O1oz8yw_Er0
Link to pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.00156
A 4-minute presentation by Dezhong Tong on "Automated stability testing of elastic rods with helical centerlines using a robotic system" for ICRA 2022 is available.
Link to video: https://youtu.be/8fsrLJBT1YA
Link to manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3138532
Our recent work on "Rapidly encoding generalizable dynamics in a Euclidean symmetric neural network: a Slinky case study" is available.
Link to pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11546
A video showcasing this work is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mHCFa8U9Xpw
This is a repost of Prof. Jawed’s LinkedIn post.
Link to the original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mkhalidjawed_dear-colleagues-we-are-organizing-a-symposium-activity-6911025434180689921-zDVQ?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a symposium (#3.3) on "Data-Driven Approaches for Complex Multiphysics Systems, Structures, and Materials" in the 2022 Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to be held on the Texas A&M University Campus in College Station from October 16-19, 2022. In this symposium, we welcome applications of different types of data-driven approaches to solve real-world problems in order to trigger valuable discussions on this promising tool. At the same time, the greater scientific community has recognized that data-driven approaches are usually agnostic and prone to unphysical failure. Therefore, we particularly encourage investigations on this issue and attempts of combining data-driven approaches with physics-based theories. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you at Texas A&M!
The deadline for abstract submission is May 16th, 2022.
Please submit your abstract at https://lnkd.in/gmtt56qk (please select Thematic Area 3, Symposium #3.3).
Best regards, Juner, Emma, Khalid, and Hongyi
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Symposium Organizers:
Juner Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, zhujuner@mit.edu
Emma Lejeune, Boston University, elejeune@bu.edu
M. Khalid Jawed, University of California, Los Angeles, khalidjm@seas.ucla.edu
Hongyi Xu, University of Connecticut, hongyi.3.xu@uconn.edu
Prof. Khalid Jawed will be speaking at the Design and Manufacturing Seminar Series of the Ohio State University on Friday (March 25) at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT on "Soft shells that are manufactured on 2D but deploy into pre-programmed 3D shapes."
A news article introducing our work with Prof. Charbel Habchi on the ballooning of spiders is live on PhysicsWorld.
Link: Simulations shed light on interactions that help spiders fly – Physics World
Five members of our lab (Dezhong, Yayun, Mrunmayi, Zhuonan and Sangmin) will proudly present their research accomplishments in the upcoming APS March Meeting 2022 (March 14–18, 2022; Chicago).
Dezhong will present his work (Abstract title: Robotic Folding of Sheets with a Mechanics-based Approach) in Session B09: Nonlinear Response of Complex Granular Materials II.
Details: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/B09.12
Yayun will present her work (Abstract title: A Modular Approach to Discrete Differential Geometry-based Simulation of Soft Robots) in Session K03: Robophysics I.
Details: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/K03.5
Mrunmayi will present her work (Abstract title: Soft Kirigami Composite that Deploys into Pre-programmed Shapes) in Session K21: Morphing Matter: From Soft Robotics to 4D Printing III.
Details: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/K21.12
Zhuonan (Abstract title: Bacteria-inspired Bi-flagellated Soft Robot with Bundling and Tumbling Behavior) and Sangmin (Abstract title: Resistive Force Theory vs. Slender Body Theory as Hydrodynamic Models in Simulation of Bacterial Flagella) will present their work in Session Z08: Fluid and Elasticity in Biomechanics.
Details: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/Z08.11
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/Z08.12
Best of luck to all our presenters and safe travels!
Our paper with Prof. Charbel Habchi, on ballooning in spiders has been published in Physical Review E. This work has also been selected as the "Editor's Suggestion" by Physical Review and featured as a "Focus" story in the Physics magazine.
Link to the focus story: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/31
Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.034401
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RKnIp5ERVbE
Our work titled Preemptive Motion Planning for Human-to-Robot Indirect Placement Handovers is available.
Link to pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.00156
Our work presenting a method for automated stability testing of a slender elastic rod using a robotic system has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3138532
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O48iDElWy-8
Our work presenting Deep-CNN based Robotic Multi-Class Under-Canopy Weed Control in Precision Farming is available.
Link to pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13986
Link to Github: https://github.com/StructuresComp/Multi-class-Weed-Classification
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ci66YtdtfQk
Our work presenting a method for automated stability testing of a slender elastic rod using a robotic system is available.
Link to pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09208
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O48iDElWy-8
Congratulations to Mrunmayi Mungekar for passing the qualification exam. She is officially a PhD candidate now!
Our work presenting a macroscopic soft robotic hardware platform and a computational framework for a physically plausible simulation model of the multi-flagellated robot is available.
Link to pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12793
A video showcasing this work is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevN1NovCZs
Congratulations to Yayun Du for being selected to participate in the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star Workshop (http://cee.mit.edu/rising-stars/). This workshop invites 20 top early-career woman in CEE and related domains who are interested in careers in academia. The event brings together the next generation of CEE academic leaders for two days of scientific interactions and career-oriented discussions. Yayun’s talk at MIT was on “Simple untethered flagellated robot in fluids and granular media”.
Link: https://www.mae.ucla.edu/mae-ph-d-student-yayun-du-selected-as-a-rising-star-by-mit-cee/