Hi All, As a reminder, our seminar this week will be "Axiomatic Design for Robotics", by Dr. Joseph T. Foley of Reykjavik University. Seminar time: 10am PST, Friday February 26 Seminar zoom link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZz... <https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZz09> -Ross --------------------- Abstract: Dr. Joseph T. Foley has been thinking about design and how it can be incorporated into the multidisciplinary study of robotics and mechatronics. The field is inherently challenging for students to gain mastery of due to the need for competence in the disciplines of software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. In this presentation, he will give a quick tutorial on Axiomatic Design, explain some of the research he is performing with it, and showcase past student projects. Biography: Dr. Joseph Timothy Foley (MIT BSc ‘99, MEng, ‘99, PhD ‘07) has worked as a researcher and designer in a large variety of fields with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure and mechatronics. His graduate research at MIT focused on integrating RFID into smart devices in a scalable and secure way, and he holds patents on the Object Name System for linking RFID-tagged objects to the responsible party. After completing his PhD, Dr. Foley worked as a researcher in the Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group at MIT in partnership with SKF, investigating methods of reducing the impact and energy usage of manufacturing processes. At iRobot's Government and Industrial division, he developed shape-changing robots as the technical lead for the Harvard-MIT-iRobot DARPA ChemBots team; this research resulted in a US patent on the manufacture of enhanced Shape Memory Alloy springs for soft robotics. Dr. Foley is now an assistant professor at Reykjavik University and teaches topics in mechatronics and mechanical design. He has integrated Axiomatic Design into the courses he currently teaches to provide students with a common framework for the heavily multi-disciplinary nature of modern computer-controlled manufacturing and smart devices. His research interests include product design, embedded smart devices and IoT, wireless communication, physical security, and engineering-artist collaborations. Dr. Foley's work-related hobbies include developing interactive installations for Icelandic art museums. His most recent developments in Axiomatic Design research include Creative Axiomatic Design (CIRP DC 2016), Desirable Complexity (ICAD 2017), and Axiomatic Design as an Ontology (CIRP DC 2017). He is the co-editor for "Design Engineering and Science", a Springer Nature educational textbook which intends to make Axiomatic Design accessible to a large range of fields and teaching styles. Dr. Foley's web site: https://afs.cs.ru.is/user/f/foley/www/ =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute (CoRIS) Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton@oregonstate.edu