Manufacturing

I am honored to have been named an ARM Champion, an award recognizing individuals from over ARM’s 400 member organizations who go above and beyond the standard call of membership. This recognition is especially meaningful as I was nominated by both the internal ARM Institute technology team and Debbie Franklin, Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Industry Engagement at Wichita State University. I am deeply grateful for the support and encouragement of my colleagues and collaborators who make achievements like this possible. You can read more about the 2024 Class of Champions here. Thank you all for being an integral part of this journey!

Sep 20, 2024

“Agile Surface Inspection Framework for Aerospace Components Using Unsupervised Machine Learning,” Arun Nandagopal, Abhishek Kulkarni, Colin Acton, Krithika Manohar, and Xu Chen, Japan Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Engineers (ISCIE) / ASME International Symposium on Flexible Automation It’s been almost six years since we started working on robotic high-precision inspection. There have been so many exciting results (and unexpected happy surprises) along the path. This segmentation result takes in complex geometries, performs optimization to assure full-surface coverage, and provides occlusion-free image capture. The processes are strategically designed to utilize the optimal number of imaging locations, make in-focus image acquisitions, and maintain their applicability across different robots.

Jul 24, 2024

I am honored to have been selected as one of twenty professors worldwide to participate in an immersive in-person visiting experience at Boeing. This program, part of the revitalized Boeing Visiting Professor Program, marks its second year in 2024, providing an incredible opportunity to engage with Boeing’s innovative environment and foster academic-industry collaboration.

Jun 20, 2024

Jun 21, 2023

Aging, degradation, and reusability of PA12 in laser sintering

Jan 5, 2023

I am deeply honored to have received the Mechatronic Systems Outstanding Young Researcher Award alongside my esteemed colleague, Professor Juan Ren (Iowa State University), from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems.

Sep 8, 2022

Our project on “Adaptive Grasping and Object Manipulation using Visual and Tactile Feedback” was selected in the inaugural set of faculty research awards to advance AI and robotics. The UW + Amazon Science Hub was founded in February 2022 and housed in the University of Washington College of Engineering. The projects were selected through a joint review process between the UW Advisory Group and Amazon. Each recipient will each receive up to $100,000 in research funding from Amazon, and each year-long project will address a real-world, cutting-edge challenge in AI or robotics.

Aug 10, 2022

SME fosters connections among manufacturing professionals, academia, and communities, sharing knowledge and resources to cultivate inspired, educated, and successful manufacturers and enterprises. In 2022, 22 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers, all aged 35 or younger, were honored for their exceptional contributions and achievements in advancing the manufacturing industry. I was truly honored to be among this group of distinguished awardees, recognized for my contributions to the field.

Apr 21, 2022

(as Organizing Committee in 2020, Program Co-Chair in 2022, and Program Chair in 2024) The ISFA conference, a biennial summit on manufacturing automation and related technologies, was initiated in 1986 under co-sponsorship of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) in Japan. It provides a focused and intimate setting for dissemination and discussion of advanced manufacturing technologies and other related fields such as dynamical systems and control, logistics and informatics, and design and optimization. It features synergistic blend of topics encompassing various aspects of manufacturing such as sensing and control, mechatronics, material design and synthesis, process modeling, lean manufacturing, diagnosis and prognosis, and emerging concepts including artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things (IoT), cloud computing, and environmental sustainability, etc.

Sep 22, 2020

Towards a zero-waste agile manufacturing of quality-assured, short-run products.

Jul 22, 2020