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Status Update – 2014/02/28
So, I thought 2012 was a great year. Turns out 2013 was even more fun. Through conferences and some leisure, I managed to travel all over the world. From February to March, I helped a friend develop his Kickstarter project on a mobile robot. It was a great learning experience, and he managed to meet…
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Status Update – 2013/01/25
Happy new year! 2012 has been a crazy year! From the Olympics to my first publication, a lot has happened. Papers! Design of a variable stiffness flexible manipulator with composite granular jamming and membrane coupling http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6385696&tag=1 Adaptive grip control on an uncertain object http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6385922 A Variable Stiffness Joint by Granular Jamming http://www.academia.edu/1252790/A_Variable_Stiffness_Joint_by_Granular_Jamming Now, in the…
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Status Update – 2012/03/20
It’s been busy! Since December, I’ve been setting up and performing experiments on my granular jamming work for a variable stiffness manipulator. I had a lot of concepts, some which were new, that I wanted to test out. Of course, as always, things didn’t work out the way I planned. The results were different than…