Eric Diller is a PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He works in the NanoRobotics Lab on micro-scale robotics, magnetic actuation, magnetic materials and biologically-inspired locomotion.
Research Interests: Climbing robots, walking robots, micro/nano robots, dynamics and control, manipulation, actuators, medical robots
Education: B.S., M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - Case Western Reserve University 2009.
Journal Articles
E. Diller, C. Pawashe, S. Floyd, and M. Sitti, ''Assembly and Disassembly of Magnetic Mobile Micro-Robots towards Deterministic 2-D Reconfigurable Micro-Systems,'' International Journal of Robotics Research, (in press).
C. Pawashe, S. Floyd, E. Diller, and M. Sitti, ''2-D Autonomous Micro-Particle Manipulation Strategies for Magnetic Micro-Robots in Fluidic Environments," (under review).
S. Floyd, E. Diller, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control Methodologies for a Heterogeneous Group of Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robots,'' International Journal of Robotics Research, DOI: 10.1177/0278364911399525, 11 March 2011.
E. Diller, S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Magnetic Micro-Robots in Two Dimensions,'' (under review).
R.D. Quinn, A. Boxerbaum, L. Palmer, H. Chiel, E. Diller, A. Hunt, R. Bachmann, "Novel Locomotion via Biological Inspiration" Proc. SPIE, 2011.
E. Diller, Z. Ye and M. Sitti, "Rotating Magnetic Micro-Robots for Versatile Non-Contact Fluidic Manipulation of Micro-Objects" invited paper, 2011 (under review).
J. Singleton, E. Diller, S. Regnier and M. Sitti, "Micro-Scale Propulsion using Multiple Flexible Artificial Flagella" invited paper, 2011 (under review).
C. Pawashe, E. Diller, S. Floyd, and M. Sitti, ''Assembly and Disassembly Methods for Magnetic Micro-Robots towards 2-D Reconfigurable Micro-Systems,'' IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, pp. 261-266, May 2011.
E. Diller, S. Floyd, C. Pawashe, and M. Sitti, ''Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Magnetic Micro-Robots on Non-Specialized Surfaces,'' IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, invited paper, Shanghai, China, pp. 115-120, May 2011.
Luther R. Palmer III, Eric D. Diller, Roger D. Quinn. "Toward a Rapid and Robust Attachment Strategy for Vertical Climbing," Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA '10), Anchorage.
Luther R. Palmer III, Eric D. Diller, Roger D. Quinn. "Design of a Wall-Climbing Hexapod for Advanced Maneuvers," Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '09), St. Louis.
Luther R. Palmer III, Eric D. Diller, Roger D. Quinn (2009) "Design Aspects of a Climbing Hexapod," Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '09), Istanbul, Turkey.
Gregory D. Wile, Kathryn A. Daltorio, Eric D. Diller, Luther R. Palmer, Stanislav N. Gorb, Roy E. Ritzmann, and Roger D. Quinn "Screenbot: Walking Inverted Using Distributed Inward Gripping," Int. Conf. on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '08), Nice, France.
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