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Biomimetic Millisystems Lab – Past Projects


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Tactile Sensing
tactile display
Tactile sensor
Tele-Taction and Tactile Sensing (1982-2002)
tactile cylinder
Tactile sensing of cylinder contact E. Nicolson PhD (1994)
tactile sensing
tactile sensing movie (1987) wmv
mp4
construction of capacitive tactile sensor (1993)
Manipulation and Soft Fingers
Stanford/JPL Hand

Dexterous Manipulation, etc. from '80s and (mpg) and (mp4) e.g. ICRA 1986
Stanford/JPL Hand

Part rolling (1984) movie e.g. IEEE JRA 1986 and ACC 1984.
Stanford/JPL Hand Stanford/JPL Hand
Part rolling (1984)
nut on bolt
Nut on bolt movie (1991)
soft finger
Soft finger design by Michael Cohn (1991). movie
orthotweezers
Desktop rapid prototyping millirobots (2000-2008)
stacked microparts
Dextrous manipulation and microassembly movie mpg mp4
Eiji Shimada's microassembly page
porbe pushing
                      micropart
Manipulation of microparts using force controlled pushing (1998)
youtube
polysilicon
                      folded gripper
Folded polysilicon microgripper (1991)
movie
nut on
                        bolt

Dynamic modelling of threaded insertion (1991). Video: mp4
finger and endoscopic tool
Millirobotics for Minimally-Invasive surgery (1994-2004)
Mobile Robots
MFI
Micromechanical Flying Insect (1998-2008)
The goal of this project is to develop an autonomous 0.1 gram flying robot using insect-inspired wing kinematics. Flight mill lift video (2002) (avi) and (mp4) MFI suspended on wire (2003) (mpg)
prototype kits
MilliRobot Prototyping using Composite Fiber Toolkits (2000-2007)
We developed a low cost (<$1000)) desktop factory which will allow users to build millirobots from a kit of components.
race cars
UCB EECS 192 Mechatronics Design Lab (1996)
Completely autonomous race cars, using IR beacons for tracking other cars, and optical track following. On-board computation is 8 bit processor (6811). Start signal is given by camera flash. Car with most laps in 2 minutes is the winner.
Micro-glider
MicroGlider Project (2004-2005)
air hockey robot
Credit card robot: squeeze film levitated, magnetically driven.(1992)

credit card robot
Credit card robot (1995)
maze for paramecia
Maze solving by paramecia (1990) movie ,avi
Control of paramecia
Paramecia Control (1991)
movie (avi) and (mp4)
acrobot
Acrobot hopping (1992) simulation .mp4
acrobot acrobot
Acrobot project 1988-1993. See e.g.  ``Control of a Two-Link Robot to Achieve Sliding and Hopping Gaits'', IEEE ICRA 1992.
open loop .wmv and sim .wmv
acrobot
Acrobot model on air table (circa 1993)