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A team of MSU computer scientists have built the first 3-D model of a human fingerprint. Jumping Robot made with 3D printed parts



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MSU Jumper: A Single-Motor-Actuated Miniature Steerable Jumping Robot
Jianguo Zhao, Student Member, IEEE,JingXu, Member, IEEE, Bingtuan Gao, Member, IEEE,NingXi, Fellow, IEEE, Fernando J. Cintr´ on, Student Member, IEEE,MattW.Mutka, Fellow, IEEE,andLiXiao, Senior Member, IEEE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States

Controlling Aerial Maneuvering of a Miniature
Jumping Robot Using Its Tail Jianguo Zhao, Tianyu Zhao, Ning Xi, Fernando J. Cintr´on, Matt W. Mutka, and Li Xiao
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States

Evolving Flexible Joint Morphologies
Jared M. Moore and Philip K. McKinley
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

A 3D Printed Fluidic Device that Enables Integrated Features
Kari B. Anderson,Sarah Y. Lockwood,R. Scott Martin,and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri 63103, United States

Evolutionary Design and Experimental Validation of a Flexible Caudal Fin for Robotic Fish
Anthony J. Clark, Jared M. Moore, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan and Philip K. McKinley
BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
Michigan State University,East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

Applying Evolutionary Computation to Harness Passive Material Properties in Robots
Jared M. Moore
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

Evaluation of 3D Printing and Its Potential Impact on Biotechnology and the Chemical Sciences
Bethany C. Gross, Jayda L. Erkal, Sarah Y. Lockwood, Chengpeng Chen, and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States

Passive Maple-seed Robotic Fliers for Education, Research and Entrepreneurship
D.M. Aslam, A. Abu-Ageel, M. Alfatlawi, M.W. Varney, C.M. Thompson & S.K. Aslam
College of Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States

3D Printed Microfluidic Devices with Integrated Versatile and Reusable Electrodes
Jayda L. Erkala, Asmira Selimovicb, Bethany C. Grossa, Sarah Y. Lockwooda, Eric L. Waltona, Stephen McNamaraa, R. Scott Martinb, and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103

3D Fingerprint Phantoms
Sunpreet S. Arora, Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States

Wafer-level Integration of Micro-Lens for THz Focal Plane Array Application
Kyoung Youl Park, Nophadon Wiwatcharagoses, and Premjeet Chahal
IEEE 63rd Electronic Components and Technology Conf. Proc.
Las Vegas, NV, May, 2013

Enhanced Bandwidth "Bull's Eye" Antenna Using Corrugated Metalized Plastic
Kyoung Youl Park, Collin S. Meierbachtol, and Premjeet Chahal
IEEE AP-S/URSI Int. Symp Dig.,
Orlando, FL, July, 2013

A Near-field Spoof Plasmon THz Probe Using Metallized 3-D Printed Plastic
Kyoung Youl Park and Premjeet Chahal
IRMMW-THz 2014 Sept. 14-19, 2014 in Tucson, AZ, USA

A Dynamic Model for Robotic Fish with Flexible Pectoral Fins
Sanaz Bazaz Behbahani, Jianxun Wang, and Xiaobo Tan
2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) Wollongong, Australia, July 9-12, 2013

A Flexible Passive Joint for Robotic Fish Pectoral Fins: Design, Dynamic Modeling, and Experimental Results
Sanaz Bazaz Behbahani and Xiaobo Tan
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) September 14-18, 2014, Chicago, IL, USA

Evolution of an Amphibious Robot with Passive Joints
Jared M. Moore & Philip K. McKinley
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computatio, Cancun, Mexico, June 2013

A Diffusion-Based and Dynamic 3D-Printed Device That Enables Parallel in Vitro Pharmacokinetic Profiling of Molecules
Sarah Y. Lockwood, Jayda E. Meisel, Frederick J. Monsma, Jr., and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Anal. Chem., 2015, 87 (12), pp 6335–6341

Just Keep Swimming: Accounting for Uncertainty in Self-Modeling Aquatic Robots
Matthew J. Rose, Anthony J. Clark, Jared M. Moore and Philip K. McKinley
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, Taromina, Italy, Sept 2013

Dynamic Modeling of Robotic Fish With a Base-Actuate Flexible Tail
Jianxun Wang, Philip K. McKinley, and Xiaobo Tan
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 137, no. 1, p. 011004 (11 pp), 2015

Affordable 3D Printed Microwave Antennas
Mohd Ifwat Mohd Ghazali, Eleazar Gutierrez, Joshua C. Myers, Amanpreet Kaur, Brian Wright, and Premjeet Chahal
Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) , 2015 IEEE 65th May 26-29, 2015, San Diego, CA

3D Targets for Evaluating Fingerprint Readers
Sunpreet S. Arora, Kai Cao, Anil K. Jain, and Nicholas G. Paulter Jr.
MSU Technical Report, MSU-CSE-15-3, 2015

Affordable Terahertz Components using 3D Printing
Amanpreet Kaur, Joshua C. Myers, Mohd Ifwat Mohd Ghazali, Jennifer Byford, and Premjeet Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA

3D-printed fluidic devices enable quantitative evaluation of blood components in modifiedstorage solutions for use in transfusion medicine
Chengpeng Chen, Yimeng Wang, Sarah Y. Lockwood and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Analyst, 2014,139, 3219-3226

Polymer Coatings in 3D-Printed Fluidic Device Channels for Improved Cellular Adherence Prior to Electrical Lysis
Bethany C. Gross, Kari B. Anderson, Jayda E. Meisel, Megan I. McNitt, and Dana M. Spence
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Anal. Chem., 2015, 87 (12), pp 6335–6341

3D Whole Hand Targets: Evaluating Slap and Contactless Fingerprint Readers
S. S. Arora, A. K. Jain and N. G. Paulter Jr.
Department of Computer Sicence and Engineering, Michigan State University
428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
to appear in the Proc. of the 15th International Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, September 2016.

Design and Fabrication of 3D Fingerprint Targets
S. S. Arora, K. Cao, A. K. Jain and N. G. Paulter Jr.
Department of Computer Sicence and Engineering, Michigan State University
428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 2284-2297, DOI 10.1109/TIFS.2016.2581306, October 2016.

A Novel 3D printed half-width microstrip leaky-wave antenna
V Gjokaj, P Chahal, L Kempel, E Rothwell
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017

A lego-like reconfigurable cavity using 3-D Polyjet technology
Y He, P Chahal, J Papapolymerou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2017 IEEE MTT-S International, 525-528

A novel 3D printed Vivaldi antenna utilizing a substrate integrated waveguide transition
V Gjokaj, P Chahal, J Papapolymerou, JD Albrecht
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017

A polyjet 3D printed alternative for package to RFIC interconnects
M Craton, JA Byford, J Papapolymerou, P Chahal, JD Arbrecht
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2017 47th, 500-503 2017

3D Printed Metalized Plastic Waveguides for Microwave Components
MIM Ghazali, KY Park, V Gjokaj, A Kaur, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
International Symposium on Microelectronics 2017 (1), 000078-000082 2017

3D Printed Integrated Microfluidic Cooling for High Power RF Applications
M Craton, MIM Ghazali, B Wright, KY Park, P Chahal, J Papapolymerou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
International Symposium on Microelectronics 2017 (1), 000675-000680

3-D Printed Air Substrates for the Design and Fabrication of RF Components
MIM Ghazali, S Karuppuswami, A Kaur, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

3D Printed Out-of-Plane Antennas for Use on High Density Boards
MIM Ghazali, JA Byford, S Karuppuswami, A Kaur, J Lennon, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2017 IEEE 67th

3D Printed High Frequency Coaxial Transmission Line Based Circuits
M Craton, JA Byford, V Gjokaj, J Papapolymerou, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2017 IEEE 67th, 2017

Demonstration of RF and microwave passive circuits through 3-D printing and selective metalization
JA Byford, MIM Ghazali, S Karuppuswami, BL Wright, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 2017

Fabrication of terahertz components using 3D printed templates
JA Byford, Z Purtill, P Chahal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI- 48824, USA
Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2016 IEEE 66th, 817-822