Vismaya Walawalkar
I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. I am working on in-situ DNA origami nanosensors that directly measure the shear forces on blood platelets. Prior to entering the PhD program at CMU, I graduated with a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2017.
Current Projects
- Development of DNA origami nanosensors to measure shear forces on blood platelets.
Previous Projects
Conformation Control of Soft Manipulators: - The goal of this research was to make a slender continuum structure conform to a desired shape. - I developed an approach that obtained the 'physically realizable' basis functions for a given restricted reachable set and used geometric control strategy to reach the desired shape. - 'Physically realizable' functions were considered to be those that could directly map the actuator input to the structure conformation.
Pneumatic Gauging of Cylindrical Mechanical Jobs - Our team of four undergraduate students setup a quality control and packaging unit prototype to regulate the manufacturing of bush-bearings. - I developed the control strategy on the then pre-release Mitsubishi FX series of PLC and interfaced the PLC with a proof-of-concept Slack-based MES layer for the prototype. - Our team was awarded the Silver Cup (second position) at the national Mitsubishi Electric Cup, India, 2016.
Awards
- Mitsubishi Electric Cup, India 2016 - Silver Cup
Presentations
Posters
- Walawalkar V., Onal C. D., 2020, "Conformation Control of Soft Manipulators", Application-Oriented Modelling and Control of Soft Robots Workshop Intelligent Robots and Systems (IRoS) Conference, Oct 29 2020.
Contact Information
- Please contact me by email: vwalawal@andrew.cmu.edu