Seminars
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Autonomous systems are rapidly transforming domains that demand agility, endurance, and sustainability. Yet at small scales, fundamental physics impose strict limits on energy density, actuation efficiency, and environmental adaptability. My research addresses these challenges by developing embodied-energy systems – integrated...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
High-performance polymers such as ULTEM™ (polyetherimide, PEI) are increasingly employed in demanding engineering applications owing to their exceptional thermal stability, mechanical strength, optical clarity, and chemical resistance. This study focuses on the thermoforming of PEI plates to produce axisymmetric structures,...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The seminar will present the two main active research areas at the MDM Lab at the University of Florence: (1) Wearable robotics for rehabilitation and assistance in impaired hand function, (2) Underwater robotics. The talk initially explores the potential of...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Segmentation is an important part of robotic perception and object manipulation. This task becomes especially challenging when several deformable linear objects (DLOs) are entangled, a scenario in which both vision algorithms and humans often struggle. This work describes a two-stage...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Assistive devices, such as prosthetics and orthotics, enable millions of people to remain mobile and functional despite disabilities or injuries. Designing optimal, personalized biomechanical interfaces, however, remains challenging because of substantial inter- and intra-subject variability, the complexity of soft-tissue mechanics,...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The generation of a spray of small droplets by gas-assisted atomization of a liquid jet is widely used in many applications such as combustion, agriculture, medical therapies, and powder fabrication, among others. The initial stage of liquid jet breakup in...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Fluid-structure interactions involving electrokinetic phenomena are increasingly relevant in microfluidics, biomedical systems, and soft robotics. One notable electrokinetic phenomenon is diffusioosmotic flow—the spontaneous movement of fluid along a stationary surface driven by a solute concentration gradient. In electrolyte solutions, diffusioosmotic...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The flow field in the wake of tethered spheres undergoing vortex-induced-vibrations (VIV) is highly complex and depends strongly on the reduced velocity, U*, and mass ratio, m*, amongst others. VIV can have disastrous results but can also be used to...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Robots are a key part of our future; they will need to be able to move and work in various environments and with changing interactions with objects and environment. A big part of today’s research focuses on different aspects of...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Low enthalpy hypersonic wind tunnel testing is limited by a mismatch between the specified Mach number and the Reynolds number of the full-scale (target) vehicle. This is due to both the difference in physical dimensions and the universal reliance on...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
I will present a new fabrication method that uses surface tension and boundary elements to drive a volume of liquid polymer into a desired structural element in a simulated zero-gravity environment. This method creates rigid elements with extremely smooth surfaces,...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Future long-duration space missions will require in-situ, on-demand manufacturing of tools and components. Photopolymer-based processes are attractive for this purpose due to their low energy requirements and volume efficiency. However, photopolymerization generates significant heat, which is difficult to dissipate in...
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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