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| UPennalizers Receive First Place at RoboCup U.S. Open | |||
The UPennalizers returned to Penn Engineering the winners of the 2013 RoboCup U.S. Open held in Maine. Team members include undergrads Alan Aquino (CMPE); Sarah Dean and Dickens He (EE); Tatenda Mushonga (MEAM); and robotics master's students Richa Agrawal, Samarth Brahmbhatt, Vibhavari Dasagi, and Aditya Sreekumar. The team is advised by Dan Lee, professor of ESE and director of the GRASP Lab. |
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| Nader Engheta: Explaining Metamaterials |
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We live in a world of waves. The radio waves hitting your car's antenna and the light coming in through its windshield are different facets of the same phenomenon: electromagnetism. As one of the fundamental forces of nature, its imprint can be felt on almost everything in the universe. Mastering the movement of waves is at the heart of much of modern technology, and no one does that quite like Nader Engheta. |
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| PennHacks 2013: The First Hardware Hackathon at Penn |
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Quoting science pioneer Alan Kay, "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." Enter PennHacks, the first hardware hackathon at Penn. Brainchild of students from the Computer Engineering program, the competition had 50 participants and required students to use devices, tools and equipment to create an array of products and tech toys. |
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| Ali Jadbabaie Named the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in Network Science | |||
Penn Engineering is pleased to announce Ali Jadbabaie as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in Network Science in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Jadbabaie joined Penn Engineering in July 2002 as assistant professor in ESE, and holds secondary appointments as professor in Penn Engineering in CIS and in The Wharton School in the Department of Operations and Information Management. |
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Places such as sandy beaches or snow covered mountain tops typically present very hard, if not unmanageable, obstacles to vehicles of all types. Yet, these same challenging environments are places teeming with animals that have developed effective navigation techniques. Studying such biological models and conducting systematic experiments with robotic models allows us to build understanding of the dynamics of granular material and design a robotic system that can demonstrate high performance on such materials. Learn more!
UPennalizers: Penn's Robotic Soccer Team
RoboCup is an international robotics competition that draws teams from all over the world to build and program robots that play soccer. The Competition is divided up into many different "leagues" of soccer, ranging from non-humanoids to adult-sized humanoids. The UPennalizers compete in two of these leagues: The Standard Platform League, which makes use of Aldebaran's 'Nao' humanoid; and the 'kid-sized' league, wherein teams develop their own platforms. We competed in the Standard Platform League beginning in 2003 at Padua, and in the Kid-sized league beginning in 2010 at Singapore in conjunction with Virginia Tech as Team DARwIn. Learn more!
HUNT: Heterogeneous Unmanned Networked Teams
Future Naval Combat Operations and Systems will entail small expeditionary forces with light combat ships (LCS), high altitude long endurance (HALE) vehicles, tactical UAVs, and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), which must monitor and protect large and complex areas continuously. These Heterogeneous Unmanned Networked Teams (HUNT) must be able to search for potential threats, identify them, track them, and take appropriate action to neutralize them. Because of the dynamic nature of the battlefield, HUNT teams must rapidly allocate and task different assets to support time-critical intelligence needs, and reallocate and re-task assets in response to the detection of threats or changes in missions. Learn more!
