23 Jul

Paper revision - Robotica

Wenzhong Yan

For the last week, I worked on paper revision and response letter for the Robotica paper about the integrated design and fabrication strategy for electromechanical systems for robotic systems. Inspired by the reviewer's comments, we created a new connection method to construct inclined out-of-plane...

15 Jul

Paper revision

Wenzhong Yan

For the past week, I focued on the revision for the Robotica paper, titled 'Robotica_Towards One-Dollar Robots: An Integrated Design and Fabrication Strategy for Electromechanical Systems.' It is pretty tricky to address some of the comments. I almost finish the first round revision. The due date i...

25 Jun

Passing the qualifying exam

Wenzhong Yan

For the past almost two months, I were preparing for my Ph.D qualifiying exam. I passed the exam this Wednesday. For this summer, I will work on creating more interesting printable mechanisms for robots towards my final goal to make robots fully printable. Stay tuned.

04 Jun

Weekly updates

Wenzhong Yan

For the past one month, I have been working on the prospectus writing for my qualifying exam at the end of this June. Specifically, last week, I was drafting the Future Work chapter for the prospectus and am very close to finish it. I will spend a several days working on it and send it out to group...

23 Oct

Paper writing 2

Wenzhong Yan

For last week, I fiinshed the ABSTRACT and INTRO sections for the paper. For the upcoming week, the Conclusion and Future Work will be completed to have the first draft with some pictures updated. Hence, this week, I will do the final editting and demos fabrication and picture update.

08 May

ARR 2019 presentation

Wenzhong Yan

Last Friday, I presented the printable controller, the mechanical logic, in ARR 2019. I got lots of feedbacks regarding fully printable robots. People are really interested in how will we make the robots fully printable. Thanks for all of the help from my group.

18 Apr

New design to improve the robustness of ML

Wenzhong Yan

The previous design of mechanical logic has rather low fabrication tolerance, though it works. Here, in order to improve its error tolerance, I created a new desgin with switches on the bistable beam. Theoretically, this design also has much high robustness. I will test this design and run debugging...

13 Mar

Restart ML project

Wenzhong Yan

For the last week, I was back to Mechanical Logic project and trained Mori for mechanical logic fabrication. For the next few month, I plan to build an integrated robot composed of ML.

13 Feb

Paper submission to arXiv

Wenzhong Yan

After long time debuging for the Latex code of our paper, I finally submited our paper, titled "Analytical modeling for rapid design of bistable buckled beams", to arXiv. Hopefully the paper will be released at 14th Feb. online. After finishing submission to arXiv, we will continue to revise the p...

06 Feb

Weekly blog-Wenzhong

Wenzhong Yan

Last week, Blaire and me finished the last revison of our paper. Especially, the error analysis of our model was added into the paper, as shown follows: Also, I worked on paper survey on the verification and validation of furniture design.

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