2023 ASME SMRDC Winners & Finalists
Jared Butler
From: Long Wang - Stevens Institute of Technology
Dear MR committee and MR community,
Please join us in congratulating the winners and finalists in this year’s Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition (2023 ASME SMRDC)!
Website Link: https://sites.google.com/site/asmemrc/design-competition-showcase/2023-finalists
Graduate Category
First Place - "A Multi-stable Elephant Trunk Robot Capable of Abrupt Stiffness Change"
Zheng Kong, Yi Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Second Place - "A Passively Adaptive Legged Robot with Gear Differentials and Non-Backdrivable Prismatic Legs"
Seonghoon Noh, Yale University, USA
Third Place (Tied) - "8R-Folding Metamorphic Robot Based on Metamorphic Mechanism"
Mi Li, Wujie Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Tianjin University, China
Third Place (Tied) - "An Origami-inspired Iris Valve"
Siyuan Ye, University College Cork, Ireland
Undergraduate Category
1st place - "COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator"
Henry Noyes, Nolan Smithwick, Northeastern University, USA
2nd place - "Continuum Robot and Intermittent Motion Mechanism for Quadruped Robot Applications"
Chuhan Jin, Qianwen Zhang, Chenkai He, Feiyue Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China
3rd place - "Underactuated Parallel Robotic Hand with Linear Trajectory Based on the Watt Linkage Mechanism"
Yinkai Dong, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Finalists
(Graduate) "Nigel: A Mechatronically Redundant and Reconfigurable Scaled Autonomous Vehicle of AutoDRIVE Ecosystem"
Tanmay Samak, Chinmay Samak, and Rohit Ravikumar, Clemson University, USA
(Graduate) "Deployable Vertical-axis Wind Turbine"
Henry Vennard, Pennsylvania State University, USA
(Undergraduate) "The Djembot"
Murray Elinson, Marcel Grygo, Anthony Paolantonio, Kalani Pigao, Kristina Sunada, Joseph Tsui, and Steven Zheng, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Organizers:
Long Wang
Gaurav Singh
Haiyang Li
Huijuan Feng
Colette Abah