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Multicellular Machines: A Bio-Inspired Approach To Electromechanical Design And Fabrication

dc.contributor.authorMaccurdy, Robert
dc.contributor.chairLipson,Hod
dc.contributor.committeeMemberManohar,Rajit
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWinkler,David Ward
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-20T20:56:53Z
dc.date.available2020-05-24T06:00:39Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-24
dc.description.abstractMulti-cellular organisms have exploited a simple but powerful design concept: the regular tiling of a relatively small number of individual cell types yields assemblies with spectacular functional capacity. This capability comes at the cost of substantial complexity in design synthesis and assembly, which nature has addressed via developmental processes and evolutionary search. I will describe my application of these ideas to electromechanical systems, which has led to the development of various electromechanical cell types, assembly strategies, and design synthesis tools inspired by lessons from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 9255455
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/40702
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectrobotics
dc.subjectadditive manufacturing
dc.subjectdigital materials
dc.titleMulticellular Machines: A Bio-Inspired Approach To Electromechanical Design And Fabrication
dc.typedissertation or thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., Mechanical Engineering

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