Project Description
Imagine having a piece of software that could understand what you wanted a robot to look like without you needing to actually design the robot. This tool would convert your specifications about robot capabilities into a robot physical design. This is the tool that we’re building in the Matter Assembly Computation Lab (MACLab). We need you to help make this become reality by designing, 3D printing, and then testing robots in order to test and further develop this software tool.
Special Requirements
This project requires the skills of a motivated student, likely with a background in ME, ECEE, or CS to design robots using custom computational tools that we have developed in the MACLab, and modify these tools as necessary. Then, the student will 3Dprint these designs and test the correlation between the design and the actual fabricated robots.
The work will require a unique combination of skills including prior experience with some flavor of 3D printing, coding experience in one or more of Matlab, C++, or Python, and good lab experimental skills including basic fabrication in a lab setting, designing and carrying out experiments, and reporting results to the lab leader and other lab members. We can provide training in some but not all of these areas so prior experience is required. While not a prerequisite, it is anticipated that students later in their undergraduate program will have more of the required skills.
Contact
- Robert Maccurdy (faculty)