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Design, Characterization and Control of a Whole-body Grasping and Perching (WHOPPEr) Drone

Background Drones have provided significant improvements for industries including surveillance, research, and agriculture with their highly advanced aerial abilities. They provide enhanced safety and security measures and allow critical tasks to be completed remotely. Drones enable goods to be transported rapidly to remote areas with little infrastructure...

Published: 9/3/2024 | Inventor(s): Weijia Tao, Karishma Patnaik, Fuchen Chen, Yogesh Kumar, Wenlong Zhang

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Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Applied Technologies, Intelligence & Security

Dynamic Quadruped with Tunable, Compliant Legs

In the realm of quadrupedal locomotion, there's a growing interest in understanding the concept of passive leg stiffness. This stiffness, when tuned correctly, can significantly influence a robot's locomotion dynamics and performance. However, integrating passive stiffness into quadruped robots has been challenging due to complexities in design,...

Published: 3/27/2024 | Inventor(s): Daniel Aukes, Fuchen Chen

Keywords(s): Defense Applications, Engineering, Robotics, Security

Category(s): Physical Science

Tunable Dynamic Walking via Soft Twisted Beam Vibration

Background Actuation and transmission through soft robotic systems has been studied extensively in recent years. Soft actuators, unlike traditional rigid-body robotic systems, can be deformed to subsequently alter body shapes and drive robots by stimulating or deforming soft materials. While many soft actuators have been developed to drive soft robots...

Published: 1/19/2024 | Inventor(s): Daniel Aukes, Yuhao Jiang, Fuchen Chen

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Category(s): Physical Science, Wireless & Networking, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical

Novel Multi-Omics Aging Clock

A multi-omics clock analyzes multiple layers of omics data with machine learning to predict remaining lifespan of mammals, particularly for animal model studies. Large omics data sets may be used from combinations of genomics, proteomics, lipids, etc. available from blood or other simple sample collection. This tool can robustly capture changes...

Published: 3/12/2024 | Inventor(s): George Sutphin, Samuel Freitas, Megha Padi, Chen Chen

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Biomarkers, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Animal Models, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Screening assays, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Simulators and Modeling Tools

Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection

Reference #: 01564 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection Background: The current practices suffer from three main drawbacks: 1) Human pilot cost is significant. The schedule of the drone-based track inspection is contingent on the pilot’s availability rather than...

Published: 3/15/2023 | Inventor(s): Yu Qian, Yi Wang, Chen Chen

Keywords(s): autonomous drone, flight control, image processing, railroad track inspection, self-navigation

Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences

2015-671 Underground Shafts for Hydrogen Storage

SummaryResearchers at UCLA have developed an underground drilled shaft concept for storage of hydrogen or other gases.BackgroundOne challenge in creating a hydrogen economy is developing hydrogen gas storage solutions. Increased interest has helped the global hydrogen storage market grow to $2.6 billion in 2016, and it is expected to reach over $5...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Adrienne Lavine, Hossein Kavehpour, Dante Simonetti, Richard Wirz, Chen Chen, Gabriela Bran, Gopinath Warrier, Hamarz Aryafar, Jonathon Kennedy, Joshua Jordan, Keith Lovegrove

Keywords(s): Energy & Water

Category(s): Energy & Environment > Energy Generation > Solar, Energy & Environment > Energy Storage