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Elisabeth successfully defended her MS thesis on e-Cube games for older adults. Congratulations!

Chuanqi successfully defended his doctoral research, entitled “Toward a Real-World Robotic Swarm: Consensus Decision Making, Novel Ground Robots, and Human-Swarm Interaction,” on December 9th, 2022. Congratulations!

 

Matthew successfully defended his MS thesis this afternoon. Congratulations, and we wish you the best for your new career at Los Alamos National Lab!

Ricardo has successfully defended his MS thesis, entitled “ INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON ROS-INTERFACED INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOFT ROBOTIC GRIPPER,” on June 14th. Congratulations!

Xiangyi Cheng has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation research today. Congratulations, Dr. Cheng! She will join Ohio Northern University as Assistant Professor after graduation.

 

 

 

Vishnu has successfully defended his MS thesis, entitled “Vision-Based Stair Detection and Terrain Classification Algorithms for Multi-Terrain Mobile Robots,” today on March 7th. Congratulations!

 

Siddharth has successfully defended his MS thesis work, entitled “Design Optimization of Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot with Passive Actuation,” today. Congratulations!

We are conducting a research project funded by National Science Foundation for testing a new computer-based games for cognitive assessment and looking for your participation!  

If you are at the age of 18 or older without a history of stroke, other neurological diseases, or severe vision/hearing issues with aid and capable of using at least one hand for comfortably manipulating an object of a cubic inch size block, you might be eligible to participate in this study. 

Participation will involve you completing a set of tests that will measure your short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive problem-solving skills and questionnaires that will assess your experience. The entire assessment will occur in Human Clinical Research Facility at Texas A&M University, located at 675 John Kimbrough Blvd, College Station, TX77840, or Fermier Hall, Room 005B, located in 106 Ross St., College Station, TX 77843. 

If you are interested in participating in this study or have questions, please call me at 979-458-6479 or send an email to kiju.lee@tamu.edu, at your earliest convenience. Appointments will be scheduled at your convenience between the hours of 9AM – 5PM, Monday, three days a week (M/W/F). 

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. Thank you! 

IRB Protocol Number: IRB2019-1079D 

PI: Kiju Lee, Ph.D. kiju.lee@tamu.edu

Research Team: Xiangyi Cheng (xxc283@tamu.edu); Elisabeth Ford (eford17@tamu.edu)

Prof. Lee and her team starts a new DARPA OFFSET Sprint 5 project (PI: Kiju Lee, 04/03/20 – 04/02/21) to develop an adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot (α-WaLTR) for versatile locomotion in urban military environments. The 9-month base period will focus on technical development and experimental evaluation of the new hardware platform; and the next 3-month optional period will focus on system-level integration with the existing platform technologies developed by Swarm Systems Integrators.

Media: 

• Texas A&M Today
• Texas A&M College of Engineering News
• News Atlas
• Inceptive Mind 

Project Team:

• Kiju Lee: PI, Project Lead (Point of Contact)
• Chuanqi Zheng: Technical Lead, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
• Siddharth Nitin Sane: Tech Team Member, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
• Vishnu Kalyanram: Tech Team Member, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
• Kangneoung Lee: Tech Team Member (Aug, 2020 – ), Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
• Jenna Horn: Project Assistant, Undergraduate Student, TAMU
• Yuan Wei: Tech Team Member (Jan 2021 – ), Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU
• Previous Members: Sohil Parsana (May – Aug, 2020), Graduate Student, Industrial and Systems Engineering, TAMU

Updates: 

• Extended project period: 4/3/20 – 9/30/21