(PI) Nick Gravish
ngravish@ucsd.edu
CV:WEB:
I am interested in movement dynamics in biology and robotics. I am driven by developing new methods for analysis and generation of locomotion using tools from robotics, computer vision, and physics.
Education
- Postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University (2013 - 2016)
- School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Advisers: Robert J. Wood and Stacey A. Combes
- Ph.D. in Physics at Georgia Tech (2008 - 2013)
- Thesis: Collective dynamics of active and passive granular media
- Minor: Mechanics of materials
- Adviser: Daniel I. Goldman
- B.S. in Physics at UC Santa Barbara (2001 - 2005)
- Undergraduate Research Honors, 2004 & 2005
Post-doc
Dongting Li
dongtingli@ucsd.edu
Dongting is a joint post-doc with the Tolley lab developing soft robots for exploration in granular environments.
PhD
Shivani Deglurkar
shivanideglurkar@ucsd.edu
Ruiqi Wang
ruw072@ucsd.edu
Rundong Yang
r7yang@ucsd.edu
Subin Chae
suchae@ucsd.edu
Yakun Cao
yac003@ucsd.edu
Former lab members
Glenna Clifton
(Post-doc)
Currently: Assistant Professor University of Portland
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Glenna worked in the lab for three years studying legged locomotion of ants on complex, three-dimensional terrain.
Curtis Sparks
(PhD)
Thesis: Buckled Tape Spring Mechanisms, Curvature Based Actuation
Curtis studied how to design tape-spring based mechanisms for robotic appengages, including legs and fingers.
Emily Lathrop
(PhD)
Thesis: Enhanced Robot-Environment Interfaces to Improve Locomotion on Natural Terrain
Thesis link:
Currently: Emily is currently an engineering consultant at the Rand Corporation
Emily was co-advised by Prof. Tolley. She worked on developing new soft-robotic technologies for robot mobility on granular and real-world substrates.
James Lynch
(PhD)
Thesis: A robophysical investigation of series-elastic flapping wings
Thesis link:
Currently: James is currently an engineering consultant at Exponent
James studied the interaction between aerodynamic forces and compliant actuators in a dynamically scaled flapping wing robot.
Wei Zhou
(PhD)
Thesis: Design of oscillatory movement for ground-based locomotion and synchronized movement in bioinspired robotics
Thesis link:
Currently: Wei is currently an engineer at Cisco systems
Wei’s PhD work focused on how to design ground based robots that move through body oscillation, and that can interact through contact to create collective movements.
Shivam Chopra
(PhD)
Thesis: Robot locomotion in granular environments via passive compliance and underactuation
Thesis link:
Currently: Shivam is currently an engineer at ATI industrial
Shivam’s PhD work focused on design principles for robot movement within granular media.
Aidy Huang
(Masters)
Alex Kraus
(Masters)
Thesis: A Collection of Design Considerations for a Two-Anchor Vibration Based Robot
Hangjun Liu
(Masters)
Thesis: A Tape-spring Based Gripper for Multi-Axis Continuous Manipulation
Currently: Hangjun is currently a PhD student at Penn State
Ignatius Widjaja
(Masters)
Thesis: A Jagged Anisotropic Mechanically Jamming Appendage for Locomotion
Currently: Aerospace Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Jordan Banh
(Masters)
Thesis: Design and fabrication of locomotive robot driven by prismatic pouch actuators that generate multi-directional motion
Thesis link:
Currently: Aerospace engineer at Northrop Grumman
Edward Lan
(Masters)
Thesis: Design of an Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Robot with Concomitant Piezoelectric Velocity Sensing for Flight
Thesis link:
Currently: Cymer corporation
Shuhang Zhang
(Masters)
Thesis: A Monolithic Fabrication of Pouch Actuated Soft Robots
Thesis link:
Currently: PhD student EPFL
Zhe Yong
(Masters)
Thesis: The characteristics and application of oscillator based robots with spring connection
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Garam Kim
(Masters)
Thesis: An Application of The Flexostructure: Multifunctional Robot Using Flexostructured Appendages
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Henry Chang
(Masters)
Thesis: Virtual leg compliance improves swing-phase collision response when walking on uneven ground
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Currently: PhD student at U Washington
Bowen Zhang
(Masters)
Thesis: Automated Three-Dimensional Body Orientation Reconstruction And Motion Tracking With Two Views During Avoidance Maneuver of Bumblebee
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Gengzhi He
(Masters)
Thesis: GRIP-tape: A Novel Design of Tape-Based Manipulator
Currently: Gengzhi is currently a PhD student at Penn State
Mengxi Ren
(Masters)
Thesis: A Voice Coil Based Vibration Platform for Micro Robots Application
Thesis link:
Currently: Engineer Wavemaker labs
Axel Qin
(Masters)
Thesis: A three-axis force platform design for cockroach incline climbing analysis
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Yash Jawanjal
(Masters)
Thesis: Angular displacement sensing and joint position localization using stretchable fiber-optic sensors in soft flexo-structures
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Amio Das
(Undergraduate)
Caitlin Le
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD program at Yale
Caitrin Duffy-Deno
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Structural Aerospace Engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center
Drago Vasile
(Undergraduate)
Eugene Lin
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD student at Johns Hopkins
Jaquelin Dezha-Peralta
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Research technician Harvard Medical School
Jiansong Wang
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Masters program at Carnegie Mellon
Justin Chang
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Technician Scripps Institute underwater robotics
Matt Mcdaniel
(Undergraduate)
Currently: Engineer at ASML
Qifan Yu
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD program at MIT
Rouyu Sun
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Siming Deng
(Undergraduate)
Currently: PhD student at Johns Hopkins
Jhonathan Bituin
(Undergraduate)
Jeremy Lu
(High-school)
Dennis Wu
(Lab tech)
Currently: Engineer at Nanocore
