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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 13, 2012
Authored by Ph.D. student Feifei Qian, "Walking and Running on Yielding and Fluidizing Ground" has been awarded the Best Student Paper at the Robotics Science & Systems (RSS) 2012 meeting in Sydney, Australia.
Qian is advised by Daniel Goldman, and the paper discusses his work with the detailed locomotor mechanics of a small, lightweight robot (DynaRoACH, 10 cm, 25 g), revealing a mechanism by which small animals can achieve high performance on granular substrates, which also advances the design and control of small robots in deformable terrains.
