Goals:

Wearable electronics is transitioning from rigid gadget-based wearables to future soft second-skin-like products. Similarly, in the field of robotics, soft robotics are quickly emerging from conventional rigid-body robotics towards lightweight, human-friendly, mechanically robust, and environmentally adaptable robotics. The goal of this project is to explore new materials, structures, mechanisms, manufacturing and integration techniques to achieve skin-like sensors and soft actuators. We aim to provide new solutions and/or explore new applications in personal healthcare, activity tracking, rehabilitation, soft robotics, and human-machine interactions through combined innovations in materials engineering, mechanical design, circuit development, and multi-scale manufacturing and integration.

Issues:

Areas of focus:

-Smart Materials and Structures for Skin-Like Sensors and Soft Actuators

-Mechanisms and Sensors/Actuators Design

-Advanced Manufacturing and Integration Techniques for Soft Electronics

-Circuit Design for Wearable Systems and Soft Actuators

-Continuous and Unobtrusive Health Monitoring and Activity Tracking

-Human-Machine Interaction

-Biomimetic Robotics

Methods & Technologies:Nanomaterials/Nanostructures; Smart Materials and Structures; Advanced Manufacturing; Computer Aided Design (CAD); Finite Element Analysis; Electromechanical Characterization; Prototyping; Hands-on Learning; Team Work

Disciplines:Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Molecular Engineering; Chemistry; Civil Engineering; Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering; Engineering Chemistry; Mechanical Engineering; Physics; Biomedical Sciences (tracks); Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Materials Science and Engineering; Health Science

Interests / Preparation by Major:Interest in nanomaterials/structures, flexible/stretchable/wearable sensors, healthcare, human-machine interfaces, soft actuators, and soft robotics. Exposure to materials science, chemical engineering, sensing and actuation, programming, circuit design, control systems, hands-on activities is preferred. Please send a copy of the CV and transcript to the faculty mentor.

Faculty:
    Shanshan Yao (Mechanical Engineering)

Team Section:30

Team Established:Fall 2021

Fall Team Meeting:N/A at N/A

Spring Team Meeting:N/A at N/A

Contact:Shanshan Yao <Shanshan.Yao@stonybrook.edu>

Links:
    https://me.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty/Yao_Shanshan.php
    https://you.stonybrook.edu/smmlab/

Applications:Closed