User Interface for Electronic Control of a Biospired Soft Robot
Mentors Project Description The project will involve developing a graphical user interface for controlling electro-permanent magnets (EPMs)- based valves. To select the fluid lines that will activate the channel of our soft actuators, we configure electro-permanent magnets as electronically activated pinch valves. These are used to control an octopus-inspired soft robot for underwater exploration. The […]
Blinking Heart Lights
Mentors Project Description Engineered cardiac tissues (ECT) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells will spontaneously contract with a “heartbeat” caused by successive action potentials. The dynamics of that contractility can be used to evaluate tissue phenotype and to assess tissue health and maturation. One common way to evaluate contractility dynamics is to monitor deflection […]