Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Materials, Structures, Functionality

Our research in the Programmable Structures Lab focuses on the fundamental interaction between geometry, hierarchy and nonlinearity to design structural systems with intrinsic properties enabling adaptation, autonomy and environmental responsiveness.

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2026 Best Paper Award at SMASIS 2026

A recent work from PS Lab titled "Embodying Control in Soft Multistable Robots from Morphofunctional Co-design" (Advance Science, 2025) recieved the 2026 Best Paper Award from the ASME SMASIS Adaptive Systems, Dynamics, and Controls Technical Committee. The conference was organized at Albuquerque, New Mexico on September 13-16. Congratulations to Juan Camilo Osorio Pinzon, Jhonathan Rincon and Harith Morgan!

 




PhD Defense

Congratulations to José Rivas-Padilla for sucessfully defending his PhD thesis "Multistable Morphing Aircraft Structures: Optimization of Aeroelastic Performance and Definition of Actuation Metrics."

 


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