[C-Blog] Purdue Engineering Blog – Upskilling America to Restore Global Competitiveness – by Dr. Karthik Ramani

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jul 29, 2019 | C-Blog, Karthik Ramani

It’s no secret that the American labor force — and by extension, society as a whole — is splitting into two camps: a relatively small number of highly educated professionals earning good wages, and large numbers of less educated workers, with fewer skills, who work...

Signal Processing Advances Consumer Electronics: New Research Impacts and Improves the Way Users Interact with Mobile and Wearable Devices in Daily Life

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jul 27, 2019 | Karthik Ramani, News, Sang Ho Yoon

The Special Report “Signal Processing Advances Consumer Electronics” in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2019) talked about “iSoft”, a soft, stretchable sensor developed by one of the C Design Lab alumni, Sang Ho...

Collaboration Requirement Planning Protocol for HUB-CI in Factories of the Future

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jul 20, 2019 | 2019, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications

Rapid advances in production systems’ models and technology continually challenge manufacturers preparing for the factories of the future. To address the complexity issues typically coupled with the improvements, we have developed a brain-inspired model for production...

V.Ra: An In-Situ Visual Authoring System for Robot-IoT Task Planning with Augmented Reality

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jun 27, 2019 | 2019, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, Information and Intelligent Systems, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Yuanzhi Cao

We present V.Ra, a visual and spatial programming system for robot-IoT task authoring. In V.Ra, programmable mobile robots serve as binding agents to link the stationary IoTs and perform collaborative tasks. We establish an ecosystem that coherently connects the three...

Toy Fair celebrates Purdue’s 150th anniversary

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jun 17, 2019 | News

Officially, the ME444 class is called “Computer-Aided Design,” but everyone knows it as the Toy Design class.  Students learn concept generation, CAD design, finite element analysis, and rapid prototyping, and other skills necessary to work in industry.  But all their...