U.S.-Italy Dissertation Enhancement Research: Shape Deposition Manufacture of Mesoscale Robotic Devices

这个为期六个月的奖项将支持斯坦福大学机械工程系学生肖恩·贝利的学位论文增强项目。他将在意大利比萨的Scuola Superiore Santa Anna(SSSA)艺术实验室与保罗·达里奥教授合作。贝利先生的研究目标是将形状沉积制造(SDM)的分层制造方法扩展到中尺度机器人设备。SSSA的研究人员是小型医疗设备设计方面的专家。在SSSA工作期间，贝利将熟悉最先进的小型加工机。然后，他将使用这些机器为中尺度机器人开发SDM技术，并通过生产高度敏感的中尺度探测器来演示这些新技术。一个特别的目标是将适用于SDM的这一专门化变体的工艺计划约束条件正式化。

0138436CutkoskyThis six-month award will support a dissertation enhancement project of Sean Bailey, a student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He will work with Prof. Paolo Dario at the ARTS Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore Santa Anna (SSSA), in Pisa, Italy. The objective of Mr. Bailey's research is to extend the layered manufacturing approach of Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) to mesoscale robotic devices. The researchers at SSSA are experts in the design of small medical devices. While at SSSA, Mr. Bailey will become familiar with state-of-the-art small-scale processing machines. He will then develop SDM techniques using these machines for mesoscale robots and demonstrate these new techniques by producing a highly sensorized mesoscale probe. A particular goal is to formalize the process planning constraints that apply in this specialized variation on SDM.