Research

Micro Robotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

Thesis: Whisker Sensors for Unstructured Environments

  1. Kent, T. A., & Bergbreiter, S. (2024, May). Flow Shadowing: A Method to Detect Multiple Flown Headings Using an Array of Densely Packed Whisker-Inspired Sensors. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  1. Wang, T., Kent, T. A., & Bergbreiter, S. (2023). Design of Whisker-Inspired Sensors for Multi-Directional Hydrodynamic Sensing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09569
  2. Kent, T. A., Emnett, H., Babaei, M., Hartmann, M. J., & Bergbreiter, S. (2023, May). Identifying Contact Distance Uncertainty in Whisker Sensing with Tapered, Flexible Whiskers. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 607-613). IEEE
  1. Kent, T.A., Kim, S., Kornilowicz, G., Yuan, W., Hartmann, M., Bergbreiter, S. (2021). WhiskSight: A Reconfigurable, Vision-Based, Optical Whisker Sensing Array for Simultaneous Contact, Airflow, and Inertia Stimulus Detection. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 3357-3364

Soft Robotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

Thesis: Soft Actuators using Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Encapsulated Liquid Metal Joule Heaters

  1. Kent, T. A., Ford, M. J., Markvicka, E. J., & Majidi, C. (2020). Soft actuators using liquid crystal elastomers with encapsulated liquid metal Joule heaters. Multifunctional Materials, 3(2), 025003.
  2. Ford, M. J., Ambulo, C. P., Kent, T. A., Markvicka, E. J., Pan, C., … & Majidi, C. (2019). A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(43), 21438-21444.

Team Piezo, Gemstone Honors Program, University of Maryland, College Park

Thesis: Piezoelectric Sensing and Energy Harvesting in Touchscreens