Congrats to Anson Kwan, who recently defended his Barrett Honors Thesis.

Dr. Mohammad Sharifzadeh and Doctoral Student Yuhao Jiang just got their paper accepted to ICRA 2022. We’ll see you there in May!

Sharifzadeh, M., Jiang, Y., Salimi Lafmejani, A., & Aukes, D. (2022). Compensating for Material Deformation in Foldable Robots via Deep Learning – A Case Study. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)(Accepted).

Dr. Aukes recently presented recent work at the DREAMS/CPAR Seminar at Berkeley.

https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-daniel-aukes/

Dr. Aukes recently presented some recent work at the ATLAS Institute. This has just been posted.

https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/atlas-colloquium

Congrats to Roozbeh Khodambashi, who recently defended his PhD Thesis.

Congrats to Mohammad Sharifzadeh, who recently defended his PhD Thesis

We are seeking research assistants to work 10 hours per week in the IDEAlab on the Poly campus. This project will focus on developing a testing platform built on the Robotic Operating System (ROS) for testing various foldable robots with a number of different integrated hardware solutions. The project will require familiarity with Python, Linux, serial and ethernet-based communication protocols.

The goal is that by the end of the summer, numerous systems will be communicating and controlled over a ROS-based network.

Congrats to Roozbeh Khodambashi and the rest of our research team for our new paper in Advanced Materials.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202005906 https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/behaving-like-animals/

Cole Brauer and Dr. Aukes were featured in a recent post on ASU’s Full Circle

The IDEAlab is hiring for multiple positions in Wearable Robotics. See details here

Congrats to Cole Brauer, the recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship, and the newest of the IDEAlab’s PhD researchers!

Professor Aukes has been featured in Full Circle for the recent news regarding his Career Award!

Press, Projects

We are sorry to say that the SWRS 2020 is cancelled. Check here for more information as it unfolds

Consider submitting to the Symposium on Computational Fabrication. Deadline April 10

https://scf.acm.org

We are excited about the new Foundational Robotics program at NSF with regard to robotics!

link

Foldable Robotics will be taught in Fall 2020! More info here as it develops

We are excited to be a part of the 2020 Southwest Robotics Symposium Please consider submitting a poster or attending April 2-3 in Mesa, AZ!

Please visit back for details soon.

Here is the graduate student travel funding request form/information.

Professor Aukes will be teaching an EGR598 class this Spring called Foldable Robotics.

Description

Foldable Robotics is a class which comes from a new class of active robotic devices being developed in research labs across the country. These devices are designed and built using flat sheets of a wide variety of materials, and folded up to create both form and motion. This class studies these devices from initial prototype and design through implementation and optimization, with a focus on application-specific projects which seek to solve problems of cost, parallelism, complexity, and time with a relatively fast and easy prototyping method.

Dr. Aukes has been named a 2017 Keen Professor! This award, presented by the Kern Foundation, is given faculty members who propose novel ideas in teaching with an entrepreneurial focus.

We have had two papers recently accepted!

[1] K. Luck, J. Campbell, M. Jansen, D. M. Aukes, and H. Ben Amor, “From the Lab to the Desert : Fast Prototyping and Learning of Robot Locomotion,” in Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, 2017.

[2] A. Jansen, K. S. Luck, J. Campbell, H. Ben Amor, and D. M. Aukes, “Bio-inspired Robot Design Considering Load-bearing and Kinematic Ontogeny of Chelonioidea Sea Turtles,” in Living Machines, 2017, pp. 1–12.

Prof. Aukes will be featured in The Origami Revolution, airing on PBS Feb 15!

Topics

• Wiki / CMS / Slack / collaboration tools
• reference management
• conference planning
• equipment and materials purchases
• computers
• documentation

Upcoming Training

• laser cutter & laminates manufacturing
• python & codebase
• dynamics
• fea
• markdown, jekyll, & latex integration

misc

lynda

Presentation: Dan Lab Overview

Professor Aukes gave a talk at the “Folding in Robotics” workshop at IROS.

The robotics group at The Polytechnic School just hosted several busloads of kids during their annual DiscoverE day on campus, as well as a public open house on Friday, April 1 2016. Thanks to all for coming!

Professor Aukes will be at ICRA, May 16-20. He will be available to consult with anyone interested in using popupCAD and/or building laminate devices. You can email him at danaukes-at-asu.edu to schedule an appointment.

Professor Aukes will be teaching a new EGR598 class this fall called Foldable Robotics.

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