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…

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…

Lots of things have happened! First off, I’ve changed projects, again. I am now going to be working on a flexible manipulator for minimally invasive surgeries. My supervisors are now Dr. Prokar Dasgupta, Dr. Thrish Nanayakkara, and Dr. Kaspar Althoefer. They are great mentors to work with, and have helped me a lot so far.…