Chris Thorne

Address
220 South 33rd Street
Towne Building, Room 170
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314

Phone: 215-746-7952
Email: ecthorne[at]seas.upenn.edu

Research Interests

I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests include mechanical design and simulation for micro aerial vehicles (MACAV) and compliant mechanism design.

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

P. White, C. Thorne and M. Yim, "Right Angle Tetrahedron Chain Externally-Actuated Testbed (RATChET): A Shape-Changing System," Proceedings of IDETC/CIE 2009.

J. Derenick, C. Thorne and J. Spletzer, "Hybrid Free-space Optics/Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) Networks for Mobile Robot Teams," Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Springer, March 2005.

Conference Papers

J. Derenick, C. Thorne, and J. Spletzer, “On the Deployment of a Hybrid FSO/RF Mobile Ad-hoc Network,", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, August 2005.

Past Research

I received a masters degree from Lehigh University in 2005, working with Professor John Spletzer and Jason Derenick, PhD. An overview of my Masters thesis work can be found here: Hybrid FSO/RF Networks for Mobile Robot Teams.