I keep revising our paper for the pasting week. Especialliy, we added a figure to demonstrate the snap-through properties of bistable buckled beams and corresponding critical behavioral values (i.e. critical force, critical displacement and travel) ,as shown below. Also, I finished first draft of...

For the passing week, I ran the FEA simulation for the bistable buckled beam. This FEA simulation fuctions as the reference of our analytical model to valide its feasibility. The main result and analysis will be added into our paper. For the following week, Blaire and I will continue to revise the p...

For the past week, Blaire and I were working on the paper writing for the analytical modeling of bistable buckled beams with off-center actuation. We worked together to clean up the derivation of our models and finalize Section "Resultes and Disccusion". So far we finished most of the work except...

Finally, our work of the mechanical logic was presented in the ISER, Nov. 2018. In this paper, we introduced the mechanism of the mechanical logic and demonstrated its ability to induce electrical current oscillation with a constant-current energy source. For more details, you can refer to our paper...

For the past week, I was woking on the writing the introduction for the upcoming RSS conference. In this paper, we will introdce our work on the modeling of our mechanical logic. This model uses a quasi-static electromechanical scheme to simulate the dynamic behaviors of our mechanical logic, which...

So far, the Mechanical Logic team has completed their first paper and submitted it to ISER2018 (2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics). Thanks for the hard work of Dr. Mehta, Angela and Blaire. The team is able to induce current oscillation through the combination of Bistability...

Angela and I have been working on testing the strain of SCP actuator this week. We designed a testing system to allow rapid prototyping for our mechanical loigic. By attaching the actuator on the bistable beam, the strain of the actuator can be measured with small or without preloaded tension. And t...

Last few days, we tried to use a 'new' thread to fabricate our SCP actuator. The most difficult part is that the mechanical propoties are so different from the previous thread though they have the same product number and came from the same retail. We ran a lot of tests to reset the coiling and annea...

For the last week, I finished the writing and submission of the paper for SCF conference. In this paper, we showcased the abstracted design, hierarchical composition, parameterized implementation and fabrication-aware capability of our design tool. On the other hand, sevaral new mechanical logics we...

For last week, I created flexible joint for furniture design to expand the design space. This flexible joint can allow two faces join togrther with certain angle while the finger joint only works well for 90 degree. But currently, our system has limited choices for one furniture design, which means...