CISE Seminar: Kristen Dorsey, Northeastern University

Designing tunable and reconfigurable soft sensors and robots

Physically-soft mechanical sensors and actuators are poised to unlock exciting new applications in wearable devices, robotics, and human-machine interfaces. A challenge of these soft-material devices is defining and reconfiguring their properties to suit the target application.

In this talk, I will discuss challenges and recent work related to designing and controlling origami-patterned sensors and actuators and additive manufacturing approaches for wearable devices and sensors. I will also present work in enhancing the stability and mechanical selectivity of stretchable sensors and discuss applications for such sensors in wearable healthcare applications and soft robotics.

Please note that attendees can request an advance digital copy or enlarged printed slides. Attendees can also request sign language interpreters, real-time transcription (CART), and other accommodations if necessary.

Kris Dorsey is an associate professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences at Northeastern University. Previously, she was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego, a faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, and an MLK Visiting Associate Professor at the Media Lab at MIT. Dr. Dorsey graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and earned her Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College. Her current research interests include reconfigurable, novel morphology, and active soft sensors and the design of soft sensors for soft robot actuators and wearable medical and rehabilitation devices.

Faculty Host: Andrew Sabelhaus Student Host: Ahmad Ghandi

Faculty Host: Andrew Sabelhaus

Student Host: Erfan Aasi