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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Recent Innovations in Magnetic Manipulation
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jake Abbott\, Telerobotics Laboratory\, Department of Me
 chanical Engineering\, University of Utah\nAbstract:\nIn this talk\, I wil
 l focus on a variety of recent projects in my lab that have pushed the sta
 te of the art in magnetic manipulation in different directions. I will des
 cribe work that we have done on the control of swarms of microrobots\, mot
 ivated by targeted therapies in the human body. I will describe a new clas
 s of haptic device\, motivated by surgical simulation and training of micr
 osurgeries such as eye surgery. I will describe an improved controller tha
 t can be used with any electromagnetic manipulation system to increase per
 formance and eliminate the risk of overheating. Finally\, I will describe 
 how magnetic fields can be used to dexterously manipulate nonmagnetic meta
 llic objects\, motivated by the problem of space debris.\n\nBio:\nJake Abb
 ott is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Univ
 ersity of Utah\, and a core member of the Robotics Center. He is the head 
 of the Telerobotics Lab\, where his research synthesizes topics ranging fr
 om haptics to magnetics for applications ranging from medicine to microgra
 vity. He received his training in haptics and teleoperation during his Ph.
 D. work with Allison Okamura at Johns Hopkins University. He received his 
 training in microrobotics and magnetics during his postdoctoral work with 
 Brad Nelson at ETH Zurich. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IE
 EE Transactions on Robotics and is currently an Associate Editor for the I
 nternational Journal of Robotics Research. He is a recipient of the Best M
 anipulation Paper award at ICRA 2010\, the Best Poster award at the 2013 H
 amlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics\, the Best Paper Award at the 2014 Hap
 tics Symposium\, and the Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics at the ICRA 
 2017.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65093257313
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