FASt Lab in the News
- Oct. 2023 – FASt Lab is part of an Air Force Center of Excellence titled AEROMORPH, which will advance the sense-assess-response of high-speed morphing vehicles. The FASt Lab will investigate the use of vibratory dynamics for mechanical computation.
- “Air Force grants $5 million for joint UF, FSU, FAMU research”, Main Street Daily News, Oct 30, 2023.
- “Air Force awards $5M to FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, University of Florida collaboration on new research Center of Excellence”, FSU News, Oct 27, 2023.
- “AFRL grant launches Center of Excellence at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering”, AFRL, Oct 20, 2023.
- Nov. 2022 – “The Nebula: Improving Coastal Monitoring one Robotic Fish at a Time”. University of Florida Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS).
Lab Events
September 2024 – We made some waves at the 2024 ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia!
- Isabel and Shan both gave great presentations!
- Trevor gave his first conference presentation!
April 2024 – Our robotic fish, Nebula, had the honor to visit the US Senate and meet NSF Director Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan.
We participated in a robotics demo day hosted by the Senate AI Caucus in DC.
We represented the University of Florida alongside our colleague Dr. Eric Du and his lab (Civil & Coastal Engineering)
December 2024 – Celebrating the end of the semester with the APRILab & Smart Autonomy Labs!
November 2023 – Shan passed her qualifying exam titled “Harnessing Morphing Mechanical Structures as Physical Reservoir Computers”. Congrats on becoming a PhD Candidate, Shan!
Oct. 10, 2023 – Miguel successfully defending his Master’s Thesis titled “Stiffness Variation of a Bio-inspired Propulsor due to Localized In-plane Forcing”. Congrats Miguel!
Sept. 13, 2023 – A great showing at the ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference in Austin, TX!
- Isabel won the best paper award in the Bio-inspired Systems track for her SMASIS 2022 paper “The Role of Compliance in Generating Traveling Waves on a Bio-Inspired Flexible Propulsor”
- Shan presented her first conference presentation!
- Nebula came in 3rd place in the student hardware competition!
Aug. 24, 2023 – Isabel passed her qualifying exam titled “Soft Swimming Robots with Multi-Functional Artificial Muscles”. Congrats on becoming a PhD Candidate, Isabel!