We have been expecting the lab open house for so long. Finally, the lab is finished. There were so many people in that day, and it was a challenge to share the research progress with someone without EE/CS backgroud, like the architects of the lab. It is particularly difficult for me, since my post...
On April 14, 2017, LEMUR members attended the Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR), a one-day technical conference that aims to bring together roboticists from around Southern California. This year's SCR took place in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center at USC, and had a large audience with a h...
Come to the grand opening of our new lab space in 1538 Boelter Hall, meet the members and learn about all the projects that they've been working on!
Overview The 2017 Engineering Open House is an event targeted towards students admitted to UCLA under the Engineering Departments. The Roco and Traffic teams presented the research each had been working on to all the potential Electrical Engineering students to show the kind of work undergraduates...
Following on from identifying the Peaucellier-Lipkin linkage as a potential solution to the straight line mechanism problem, the system was created using paper. However, issues became immediately apparent and are listed below: • Rigidity: The paper does not have enough rigidity to handle the for...
As per the MEMS actuator roadmap one area of investigation is designing a linkage system in order to act as an interface between the actuator and the paper hinge. The linkage is necessary in particular because of the constraints of the actuator as listed below: The system is linearly actuated....
This week I focused on solidifying the relationships between the equations in my table of equations. I found another article by the authors I have been referencing throughout this entire process (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7864464). This article provided much more insight in...
Literature review: Analysis of Unprotected Intersection Left-Turn Conflicts based on Naturalistic Driving Data Summary: In this paper, unprotected left turn across path - opposite direction (LTAP/OD) events are studied based on data from Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) Database. To collec...
Motivation intersection is the bottleneck of urban traffic intersection is very different from the highway, which means that the highway model may not be applicable Model role of traffic light assign access to different lanes We can just consider one direction first. The other direction...
For the next few weeks, the Robot Compiler (roco) group will be taking a break from adding functionality to the compiler, and instead focus on cleaning up, documenting, and merge the existing codebases. Motivation As the size of the roco project grows, the code has become increasingly difficul...