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Summer 2012 STRIDe Lab Group

Scansorial and Terrestrial Robotics and Integrated Design Lab (Summer 2012)
First Row (Left to Right): Jigar Patel (BSEE '14), Tyler Routley (BSME '13),
Sarah Waddil (BSME '13), Michael Bunne (BSME '12), James Dickson (MSME '12),
Clay Norrbin (BSME '13). Second Row: Dr. Jonathan Clark, Bruce Miller (Ph.D.ME '14),
Jason Newton (MSME '14), Asa Darnell (BSME '13), Alex York (BSME '13)
(Not Shown: Dr. Camilo Ordonez, Angela Silva)

Director

Jonathan Clark
jeclark at fsu.edu
Jonathan Clark joined the department of Mechanical Engineering and founded the STRIDe lab in 2007. Previous to this he was a Post Doctoral Researcher with Dr. Dan Koditschek in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.S and Ph.D. in 2000 and 2004 in Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Mark Cutkosky in the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab (BDML), a part of the design division of the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University. He completed his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Postdoctoral Researchers

Camilo Ordonez
camilor at eng.fsu.edu
Camilo is a postdoctoral scholar at the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University in 2006 and 2010. He also holds a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Bolivariana University in Colombia. During his undergraduate studies Camilo was an exchange student in the department of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. After receiving his B.S. degree, Camilo joined Total Seguridad Ltda as a support engineer in the area of electronic security systems. His current research interests include navigation of autonomous wheeled and legged robots on off road terrain, terrain classification and characterization, and control systems. Camilo joined the STRIDe Lab in Spring 2010.

Graduate Assistants

Bruce Miller
bdm09 at my.fsu.edu
Bruce is a graduate student at the Florida State University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in controls and robotics. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in the Spring of 2009. He joined the STRIDe Lab in August of 2009. Bruce's research focuses on the development of a multi-modal robotic platform capable of both terrestrial and scansorial locomotion and the transition between the two regimes.

Jason Newton

jfn09 at my.fsu.edu

Jason is a graduate student at the Florida State University pursuing a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the STRIDe Lab in May 2011. Jason received his B.S. from Florida State University in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2012. His research focuses on the application of smart materials for terrestrial and scansorial robotic design to replace traditional mechanical structures.

Angela Silva

ags07c at my.fsu.edu

Angela is a graduate student at the Florida State University pursuing a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering through the BS-MS program. She has participated in research in the STRIDe lab intermittently since Fall 2010. Angela received her B.S. from Florida State University in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2012. Her research focuses on the design of specialized attachment mechanisms for dynamic climbing on natural surfaces.

Undergraduate Assistants

	Clay Norrbin csn09 at my.fsu.edu routley Clay is a National Science Foundation REU Fellow from the Florida State University, pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the STRIDe Lab in May 2012. His research focuses on terrestrial robotic design and the application of smart materials to legged running robots.
	Alex York awy09 at my.fsu.edu Alex is a National Science Foundation REU Fellow from the Florida State University, pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the STRIDe Lab in May 2012. His research focuses on terrestrial robotic design and the optimization of curved C-legs for efficiency and speed.