Demonstrating the Omnitread OT-4 at the Michigan Robotics and Autonomous Technologies Conference at the University of Michigan (2008). Featured in the Detroit News, and the University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering 2008-09 Annual Report.
Adam Borrell
aborrell@umich.edu
734-763-1909 (Office)

Research Engineer
Mobile Robotics Lab
University of Michigan

Room 3944
CSE Building
2260 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

Degrees:
•BS in Mechanical Engineering
with Department Research Honors and University Honors
Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.

•MS in Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan, 2008.

Research Labs:
University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab
Carnegie Mellon University BioRobotics Lab

Publications:
•The OmniTread OT-4 Serpentine Robot
Design and Performance
Johann Borenstein, Malik Hansen, and Adam Borrell.
Journal of Field Robotics
Volume 24, Issue 7, p 601-621, July 2007

Conference Proceedings:
•The OmniTread OT-4 Serpentine Robot
Johann Borenstein and Adam Borrell
Video Proceedings of ICRA 2008
***Winner of ICRA 2008 Best Video Award***

Professional Robotics Projects:
•OmniTread Serpentine Robots
•Personal Dead-Reckoning (PDR)
•Heuristics-enhanced Odometry (HEO)
•Precision Indoor Tracking of Tele-operated UGVs
•Modular Snake Robots
•Surgical Robots:
Including building the first prototypes of the CardioArm Surgical Snake Robot, now being developed by Cardiorobotics, which will soon enter human trials.

Personal Robotics Projects:
•Pinchy: The Wiimote-Controlled Robot Arm:
Featured in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy high school curriculum NXT Video Trainer.
•Failure Testing of Tamiya "Toy" Motors:
Featured on the Pololu Robotics and Electronics website.


Testing the Omnitread OT-4 at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas (Fall 2006).


Testing the Omnitread OT-4 at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas (Spring 2006).


Shaking hands (flippers?) with a PackBot at the University of Michigan Ground Robotics Research Center (2009).

Schmoozing with Robonaut at the International Robots & Vision Show in Rosemont, Illinois (2005).


Demonstrating a Modsnake at the Keystone Homeland Security University Research Alliance Summit in State College, Pa (2003). Featured in this USA Today article.

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