NanoRobotics Laboratory

Matthew Edwards

e-mail: mredward (AT) andrew.cmu.edu
Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering
B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2012

Research Projects

Swimming Micro Robots

Publications

Journal Publications

M.R. Edwards, R.W. Carlsen, and M. Sitti, "Near and Far-Wall Effects on the Three Dimensional Motion of Bacteria-Driven Microbeads," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, 143701, 2013.
C.E. Myers, M.R. Edwards, B. Berlinger, A. Brooks, and S.A. Cohen, "Passive Superconducting Flux Conservers for Rotating-Magnetic-Field-Driven Field-Reversed Configurations," Fusion Science and Technology, 61, 1, 86-103 (2012).
J.B. Michael, M.R. Edwards, A. Dogariu, and R.B. Miles, "Femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging for quantitative velocity imaging in air," Applied Optics, 50, 26, 5158-5162 (2011).
J.F. Curtin, N. Liu, M. Condolfi, W. Xiong, H. Assi, K. Yagiz, M.R. Edwards, K.S. Michelsen, K.M. Kroeger, C. Liu, A.K. Muhammad, M.C. Clark, M. Arditi, B. Comin-Anduix, A. Ribas, P.R. Lowenstein, and M.G. Castro, "HMGB1 Mediates Endogenous TLR2 Activation and Brain Tumor Regression," PLoS Medicine, 6, 1, 0083-0104 (2009).
J.F. Curtin, M. Candolfi, T.M. Fakhouri, C. Liu, A. Alden, M.R. Edwards, P.R. Lowenstein, and M.G. Castro, "Treg Depletion Inhibits Efficacy of Cancer Immunotherapy: Implications for Clinical Trials," PLoS ONE, 3, 4 (2008).

Conference Papers

M.R. Edwards, A. Dogariu, and R.B. Miles, "Simultaneous temperature and velocity measurement in unseeded air flows with FLEET," AIAA-2013-0043, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, TX, Jan 7-10, 2013.
R.B. Miles, M.R. Edwards, J.B. Michael, N.D. Calvert, and A. Dogariu, "Femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging (FLEET) for imaging flow structure in unseeded hot or cold air or nitrogen," AIAA-2013-0340, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, TX, Jan 7-10, 2013.
J.B. Michael, M.R. Edwards, A. Dogariu, and R.B. Miles, "Velocimetry by femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging (FLEET) of air and nitrogen," AIAA-2012-1053, 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Nashville, TN, Jan 9-12, 2012.
S.A. Cohen, B. Berlinger, C. Brunkhorst, H. Feder, J. Gumbas, C.E. Myers, and M.R. Edwards, "Construction of the PFRC-2 Device," Workshop on Innovation in Fusion Science (ICC2011) and US-Japan Workshop on Compact Torus Plasma, Seattle, Washington, Aug 16-19, 2011.
M.R. Edwards, J.B. Michael, A. Dogariu, and R.B. Miles, "Localized microwave plasma grid by laser-designation," AIAA-2011-4000, 42nd Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on MHD Energy Conversion (ICMHD), Honolulu, HI, June 27-30, 2011.
J.B. Michael, M.R. Edwards, and R.B. Miles, "Time-resolved temperature measurements of laser-designated, microwave driven ignition," AIAA-2011-1020, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, Jan 4-7, 2011.
S.H. Zaidi, M.R. Edwards, D.F. Opaits, R.B. Miles, "DBD surface charge measurement and mitigation in moving air," AIAA-2011-156, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL Jan 4-7, 2011.
D.F. Opaits, M.R. Edwards, S.H. Zaidi, M.N. Shneider, R.B. Miles, A.V. Likhanskii, and S.O. Macheret, "Surface plasma induced wall jets," AIAA-2010-469, 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, Jan 4-7, 2010.