Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister

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Sarah Bergbreiter

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2007

Autonomous Jumping Microrobots

Sarah Bergbreiter
Kristofer S.J. Pister
Ronald S. Fearing
Robert J. Full
2007
An autonomous jumping microrobot has been designed, and its mechanical components have been fabricated and tested. Millimeter-scale autonomous mobile microrobots have potential applications in mobile sensor networks as well as search and exploration tasks. However, mobility is difficult at this scale due to rugged surfaces, obstacles and loco-motion efficiency. Jumping has been proposed as a locomotion method to overcome these challenges. The microrobot design has been divided into four components: energy...

Steven Lanzisera

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2009

RF Ranging for Location Awareness

Steven Lanzisera
Kristofer S.J. Pister
2009

Wireless sensor networks provide an opportunity to improve performance in areas ranging from energy efficiency to industrial processes to scientific research. Many applications require awareness of sensor location, but autonomously determining device location has proven to be challenging. This localization problem can be divided into two parts: measuring relationships between nodes, and then using these relationships to estimate location. Most work on the first part has measured the RF received signal strength as a surrogate for range resulting in poor location accuracy. Several other...

Subramaniam Venkatraman

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2010

Cortical Microstimulation for Neural Prostheses

Subramaniam Venkatraman
Kristofer S.J. Pister
2010

Brain-controlled prostheses have the potential to improve the quality of life of a large num- ber of paralyzed persons by allowing them to control prosthetic limbs simply by thought. An essential requirement for natural use of such neural prostheses is that the user should be provided with somatosensory feedback from the artificial limb. This can be achieved by electrically stimulating small populations of neurons in the cortex; a process known as cor- tical microstimulation. This dissertation describes the development of novel technologies for experimental neuroscience and their use...

Richard Su

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2011

Towards a Synthesizable Standard-Cell Radio

Richard Su
Kristofer S.J. Pister
Jan Rabaey
Paul Wright
2011

Radios available today are designed to be high performance devices. These radios require careful design by experienced and skilled RF IC designers, more expensive RF processes, and large chip areas for RF passives. The resulting cost of these devices is at the dollar level without the off chip components, and the careful design required makes integration of these radios with other circuits (microprocessors, sensors, etc) an expensive proposition. We believe that radios that require limited design skills while still having good performance will enable widespread use of wireless...

Andrew Tinka

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2012

Ankur Mehta

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2012