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The 2018 Distinguished Speaker Series
Oct. 4, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 310
Kelly Hall, Professor Ronald K.
Hanson of Stanford University
will discuss the Evolution of
tunable laser absorption sensors
for combustion and propulsion.
Nov. 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 310
Kelly Hall, Professor Robert
O. Ritchie of the University
of California, Berkeley, and the
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, will discuss Dam-
age tolerance in engineering and biological
materials.
Dec. 6, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 310
Kelly Hall, Professor Thomas A.
Zawodzinski of the University
of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, will
discuss Making use of renewable
electrons with redox flow batteries and related
‘open’ systems.
Meadows in JEGTP
Assistant Professor Joseph
Meadows had his article, Thermo-
acoustic instability model with
porous media: Linear stability
analysis and the impact of
porous media, accepted by the
ASME Journal of Engineering for
Gas Turbines and Power.
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FALL 2018
Ben-Tzvi publications
Associate Professor Pinhas
Ben-Tzvi has had four journal
papers since July, including, A
geometric approach to obtain the
closed-form forward kinematics of
H4 Parallel Robot, in the Journal
Ben-Tzvi
of Mechanisms and Robotics,
Transactions of the ASME; Intelligent object
grasping with sensor fusion for rehabilitation and
assistive applications, in IEEE Transactions on
Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineer-
ing; Design Modeling and integration of a flexible
universal spatial robotic tail, in the Journal of
Mechanisms and Robotics, Transactions of
the ASME; and Discrete modular serpentine
robotic tail: Design, analysis and experimentation,
in Robotics Journal.
Ben-Tzvi was a session chair and co-chair,
and his graduate students published and
presented the following peer-reviewed con-
ference papers at the 2018 ASME Internation-
al Design Engineering Technical Conferences,
42 nd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
in August: Design and implementation of an
exoskeleton glove for infant medical rehabilitation,
E. Refour, B. Sebastian, P. Ben-Tzvi; Improved
alignment estimation for autonomous docking of
mobile robots, S. Sohal, W. Saab, P. Ben-Tzvi;
Dynamic modeling of a quadruped with a robotic
tail using virtual work principle, Y. Liu, P.
Ben-Tzvi; and Gaussian kernel controller for
path tracking in mobile robots, B. Sebastian, A.
Williams, P. Ben-Tzvi
Ben-Tzvi and his graduate students will
present the following papers at the Proceed-
ings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
in October: A framework for modeling closed
kinematic chains with a focus on legged robots, V.
Kamidi, A. Williams, P. Ben-Tzvi; Dynamic
modeling and control of an articulated tail for pre-
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