Mike Murphy
email: MikeMurphy (AT) cmu.edu
Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University 2005
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering - Yale University 2003
Research Projects:
Synthetic Gecko Inspired Adhesives
Waalbots - Wall climbing robots
Adhesion Characterization system
In the News:
Technology Review Article (May 2007)
Publications:
B. Aksak, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Gecko Inspired Micro-Fibrillar Adhesives for Wall Climbing Robots on Micro/Nanoscale Rough Surfaces," ICRA 2008, to appear.
M. Murphy, B. Aksak, M. Sitti, "Adhesion and Anisotropic Friction Enhancements of Angled Heterogeneous Micro-Fiber Arrays with Spherical and Spatula Tips" Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 12, October 2007, available online.
M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Dry Elastomer Adhesives", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 12, no. 3, June 2007, available online.
B. Aksak, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Adhesion of Biologically Inspired Vertical and Angled Polymer Microfiber Arrays", Langmuir, 0743-7463, 2007. available online.
M. Murphy, W. Tso, M. Tanzini, M. Sitti, "Waalbot: An Agile Semi-Autonomous Wall Climbing Robot" IROS 2006
O. Unver, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Geckobot and Waalbot: Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robots" AIAA 5th Aviation, Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO), Arlington, Virginia Sept. 2005.
C. Menon, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004.
C.Menon, M.Murphy , G.Shah , M. Sitti, F.Angrilli,"WaalBots for Space Applications" 55th IAC Conference, Vancouver, 2004
