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| Name | Hayden Webb |
| Label | Undergraduate Researcher |
| hayden.m.webb@rice.edu | |
| Summary | Undergraduate Researcher broadly interested in all things Robotics |
Education
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2021.08 - 2025.05 Houston, TX
Undergraduate
Rice University
Mechanical Engineering B.S.
- Algorithmic Robotics, Engineering Design Studio, Engineering Design Tools, Fundamentals of Robotic Manipulation, Fundamentals of Control Systems, Introduction to Operations Research and Optimization, Heat Transfer, Machines and Mechanisms, Modeling Dynamic Systems, Prototyping & Fabrication, Rigid Body Dynamics, Thermodynamics
Publications
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2024.12 Robust In-Hand Manipulation for Parallel Jaw Grippers through Remote Center of Compliance and Active Surfaces
In Progress
Designing a robot hand for parallel jaw grippers to provide full spatial manipulation through the use of active surfaces, compliant fin-rays, and a remote center of compliance (RCC) beam system.Developing a P-control manipulation algorithm utilizing force primitives to parameterize and test the hand’s manipulation capabilities for objects of variable geometry
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2024.09.17 Wearable Roller Rings to Augment In-Hand Manipulation through Active Surfaces
arXiv
Designed in-hand manipulator for both human & robotic grasping systems for differential, non-holonomic, and full spatial manipulation.Developed a generalized active surface-based motion model for arbitrary geometry objects
Awards
- 2024.08
3rd Place, Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition (SMRDC)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2024.06
Asme Student Financial Support Award
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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