Events

Designing mechanisms, actuators, and sensors for haptics, medical applications, and grasping. Dr Amy Kyungwon Han (Seoul National University)

Date: Thursday 14 December 2023 15:00 - 16:00

Location: G27, Engineering building (west block, ground floor), Mile end campus

Dr Amy Kyungwon Han is an assistant professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. Dr Amy Kyungwon Han's research has focused on designing mechanisms, actuators, and sensors for haptics, medical applications, and grasping.

Website: hero.snu.ac.kr

More details of her present and past research are below:

• Implantable medical devices
• Devices that induce tissue growth of underdeveloped hearts
• Biomimetic ventricular assist devices
• Soft sensors for measuring myocardial strain
• Electrostatic artificial muscle
• High work density, lightweight, low power consumption actuator
• Electrostatic gecko clutch
• Controllable, compact, dry adhesive electrostatic clutch for robotic mechanisms and actuators
• Dielectric elastomer electroactive polymer (EAP) actuator
• MR-compatible haptic devices based on EAP for teleoperated MR-guided medical interventions
• Dielectric fluid transducer (DFT), also known as liquid electroactive polymer (LEAP)
• Haptic surface display based on miniature dielectric fluid transducers
• Gecko-inspired dry adhesives for enhancing human and robotic grasping
• Gecko gloves for humans for reducing repetitive stress injury
• Integration of gecko adhesives and robotic fingers
• Hybrid electrostatic gecko gripping pads for enhanced adhesion on micro-rough surfaces
• Multimodal sensor network for soft robotic fingers

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RmtucKQAAAAJ

EDUCATION / CAREER

• B.S.: Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2012)
• M.S: Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2015)
• Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2020)
• Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University (2020-2022)
• Seoul National University Assistant Professor (2022-Present)