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Teresa A. Kent

4 accepted papers

2025

Measuring DNA Microswimmer Locomotion in Complex Flow Environments

ICRA 2025

Microswimmers are sub-millimeter swimming robots that show potential as a platform for controllable locomotion in applications, including targeted cargo delivery and minimally invasive surgery. To be viable for these target applications, microswimmers will eventually need to be able to navigate envi

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Flow Shadowing: A Method to Detect Multiple Flow Headings using an Array of Densely Packed Whisker-inspired Sensors

ICRA 2024poster

Understanding airflow around a drone is critical for performing advanced maneuvers while maintaining flight stability. Recent research has worked to understand this flow by employing 2D and 3D flow sensors to measure flow from a single source like wind or the drone’s relative motion. Our current wor…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

Identifying Contact Distance Uncertainty in Whisker Sensing with Tapered, Flexible Whiskers

ICRA 2023poster

Whisker-based tactile sensors have the potential to perform fast and accurate 3D mappings of the environment, complementing vision-based methods under conditions of glare, reflection, proximity, and occlusion. However, current algorithms for mapping with whiskers make assumptions about the condition…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2021

WhiskSight: A Reconfigurable, Vision-Based, Optical Whisker Sensing Array for Simultaneous Contact, Airflow, and Inertia Stimulus Detection

RA-L 2021

The development of whisker-based sensing systems faces at least two important technical challenges: scaling up the number of whiskers to large arrays while retaining a simple interface; and detecting the wide variety of stimuli that biological whiskers can sense, including both direct touch (contact

Cited by 25SourceScholar