Join the rest of the Pratt School of Engineering Community in a special dedication of a special new place on our campus -- the Thomas E. Harrington E'66 GREAT IDEAS BENCH. The dedication will take place at the BENCH, located where Hudson Hall meets Harrington Engineering Quad.
Join Duke's Pratt School of Engineering during this week-long event celebrating how engineers make a difference in our world. More at pratt.duke.edu/e-week
Manual manipulation of traditional minimally invasive devices for life-saving surgery is time consuming with uncertain results. Steerable robotic micro-catheters and miniature endoscopes are essential to the operating room of the future, but lack the dexterity needed to navigate tortuous human anatomy. This talk introduces the design of three unique miniature robots: 1) A robotic catheter […]
Abstract: During cardiovascular development, peristaltic contraction of the embryonic heart tube produces time-varying hemodynamic forces and pressure gradients across the atrioventricular canal. However, the relative importance of myocardial contraction and hemodynamic force to modulate cardiovascular morphogenesis in the non-Newtonian flow regime remains poorly understood. By developing the 4-D light-sheet fluorescent microscope and post-imaging machine-learning algorithms, […]
From autonomous vehicles navigating busy intersections to quadrupeds deployed in household environments, robots must operate safely and efficiently around people in uncertain and unstructured situations. However, today's robots still struggle to robustly handle low-probability events without becoming overly conservative. In this talk, I will discuss how planning in the joint space of physical and information […]
Preventing injury and restoring mobility following injury, both musculoskeletal and neuromuscular, is challenging. In recent years, the fields of biomechanics and clinical rehabilitation have informed the development of wearable devices and assessment tools that aid in rehabilitation and in maintaining mobility. Wearable exosystems are assistive devices that can target weakness in a specific joint or […]
TITLE: Manufacturing-Scale Atomic Layer Deposition for Batteries... and Other Applications Historically Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been regarded as a lab-only process, disregarded as too expensive and an unrealistic process for commercial adoption outside of semiconductor manufacturing. However, several methods for high volume manufacturing have been developed over the last decade, making ALD on powders […]
Robots are traditionally designed with fixed physical hardware and control policies that make them specialized for repetitive tasks and structured environments. This talk discusses foundational work toward robots that "evolve on demand," morphing their bodies and adapting their behaviors to accommodate multiple tasks in diverse environments. First, I will introduce robotic structures made from stiffness-changing […]
Surgical Data Science aims to improve the quality of interventional healthcare and its value through the capture and analysis of data. The operating room has long been siloed from in-depth review and analysis, but recent advances in computer vision and surgical robotics offer the promise of improved understanding and prediction of intraoperative events. However, challenges […]
Efficient and resilient coordination among autonomous agents plays an important role in various domains such as energy management, robotic swarms, autonomous vehicles and beyond. As these systems grow in complexity and scale, the challenge of achieving optimal coordination becomes increasingly difficult. The first part of the talk will focus on tackling scalability issues by leveraging […]
