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Description:: The aim of this dissertation is to make sense of nearly a century and a half's worth of observations concerning skin based electroadhesion phenomena. While this is a noble goal in and of itself, further motivation of this work is drawn from fact that the electroadhesive effect is increasingly being...
Keyword:: electroadhesion, haptics, bioimpedance, and frictio
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Craig D. Shultz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/08/2019
Date Modified:: 02/08/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working. However, we have little understanding of how these socio-technical environments support opportunities for professional skill development. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how...
Keyword:: Online communities, Social computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Makerspaces, Crowdfunding, and Online learning
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Julie Hui
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/25/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Mechanisms for sensing fluid flow are well studied in arthropods and in some aquatic mammals, but we know very little about how terrestrial mammals detect and localize airflow (Chapter 1). In this thesis, I will describe a series of studies in rodents that investigate the behavioral, mechanical, and neural basis...
Keyword:: Flow sensing, Anemotaxis, Wind, Trigeminal, Odor tracking, and Whisker
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Yan S.W. Yu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/30/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Keyword:: Decentralized algorithms, Environmental estimation, Distributed algorithms, Environmental monitoring, and Swarm Robotics
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Matthew L. Elwin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/25/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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