Tech Knowledge Is Power – by Mung Chiang, Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 15, 2019 | News

“As our world is re-engineered, more people need to learn how engineers analyze, design and operate. Engineering concepts such as modular design and feedback control can become part of citizens’ vernacular, just like inflation and trade deficit from...

Manufacturing a Future – Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in Jan/Feb 2019 publication

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 1, 2019 | News

Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice (Click here to open the website) highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in January/February 2019 publication. The goal of Factory of the Future is to develop new technologies that will allow manufacturers to realistically...

GERI 2018 Summer Workshops

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Oct 15, 2018 | Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Outreach, Terrell Glenn

  https://Engineering.Purdue.edu/cdesign/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GERI-2018.mp4   STAR I Workshop Over the summer of 2018, the C Design Lab conducted a two-week Toy Design workshop for students in grades 7 and 8. The Toy Design Summer Workshop is a...

SynchronizAR: Instant Synchronization for Spontaneous and Spatial Collaborations in Augmented Reality

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Oct 15, 2018 | 2018, Ana Villanueva, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Luis Paredes, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Yuanzhi Cao

We present SynchronizAR, an approach to spatially register multiple SLAM devices together without sharing maps or involving external tracking infrastructures. SynchronizAR employs a distance based indirect registration which resolves the transformations between the...

Alumni Success Story – You Wu – Robot Daisy and Pipe Leak Detection

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Oct 15, 2018 | News

This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie and detects the suction of water leaving pipes–which is a lot of water that we could put to better use. Continue...