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SUMMARY:MEchanics GAthering -MEGA- Seminar: Fast ground-to-air transition 
 enabled by avian-inspired multifunctional legs
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Won Dong Shin (LIS\, EPFL)\nAbstract: Most birds can navigat
 e seamlessly between aerial and terrestrial environments. While their fore
 limbs have evolved into wings primarily for flight\, their hindlimbs (legs
 ) serve various functions such as walking\, hopping\, leaping\, and jumpin
 g take-off for transitions into flight. Incorporating versatile legs into 
 aerial vehicles could expand the range of robotic applications across dive
 rse environments. In this seminar\, a robot capable of replicating above-m
 entioned bird-like abilities is introduced. Its design is discussed togeth
 er with its performance in walking\, hopping\, jumping\, and jumping take-
 off\, and share insights from experimental results.\n\nBio: Won Dong Shin
  recently completed his private defense at EPFL in Robotics and is now con
 tinuing his research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Int
 elligent Systems (LIS)\, EPFL. He received BS and MS degrees in Mechanical
  Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). H
 is research focuses on bio-inspired design and multimodal platforms that c
 ombine terrestrial and aerial locomotion.
LOCATION:MED 1 1518 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%201%201518 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/67041786969?pwd=a1lXa3lsVGpvL1VpN2RDR2l4clg0QT09
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