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    • Sensing and Estimation
    • Presentations
  • People
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People

Agile Robotics Lab at UA
Faculty
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​Vishesh Vikas
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​Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Email : vvikas at ua dot edu



​Graduate Students
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​Michael Maynard

Michael Maynard completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama. His research interests include inertial sensing, bio-tensegrity, and soft robot fabrication. 

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​Arun Niddish Mahendran

Arun Niddish is from India and graduated with B.Tech (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from SASTRA University. His current research work is under wireless communication and inertial sensors. He prefers playing outdoor sports rather than indoor gaming and likes to play Football and Table tennis.​ 

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​Cole Woods

Cole Woods is from Fairhope, Alabama and completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alabama. Currently, he is pursuing his Masters of Business Administration (MBA). His research is in bio-inspired mechatronics with the goal to balance an inverted pendulum on variable surfaces by using non-contact sensors. His hobbies are woodworking - he has made signs, clocks, tables, and chairs. 

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​Caitlin Freeman

Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Caitlin Freeman is a Master's student studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include biotensegrity, fabrication and locomotion of soft robots, bio-inspired dynamics and controls, and engineering curricula. Outside of the lab, Caitlin enjoys going on walks with her dog and competing in collegiate club gymnastics.   

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​Clayton Gotberg

Clayton Gotberg completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering and Physics at the University of Alabama. His research interests include biomechanical modelling and tensegrity systems. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and chess.



​Undergraduate Students
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​Emma Scott​

Emma is from Memphis, TN and is conducting research through the Randall Research Scholars Program (formerly Computer-Based Honors Program). She enjoys painting and playing guitar in her free time.

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Chloe Flack
Chloe is from Cary, North Carolina majoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama. She is researching through the Randall Research Scholars Program. In her free time she enjoys sailing and cooking​



Lab Alumni
Miranda Tanouye (2018), Honeybee Robotics
MS Thesis - "A Kinematic Analysis of a Stacked Planar Compliant Tensegrity Mechanism"


David Leech
Dalton Stacks
Georgia Patterson
Tyler Rhodes
​Will Conlin
Matthew Pilus
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