Ph.D. Candidate at the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab
About me
My research interests lie in robotic manipulation, robotic assembly, and computational design. My current research focuses on mathematical modeling of interlocking bodies, and design optimization of blocks for robotic assembly. I've also worked on mobile systems to teach American Sign Language (ASL) in mixed reality, and on sensing underwater robots from the air. See my résumé for a full list of project experience.
Publications
Amy Sniffen, Devin J Balkcom. "Wedgelock: Design, Optimization, and Assembly of Interlocking Blocks with Tolerance" International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2024), under review
Amy Sniffen, Zezhou Sun, Samuel E Lensgraf, Emily Whiting, Alberto Quattrini Li, Devin J Balkcom. "Falling into Place: Drop Based Assembly of Interlocking Puzzles" Robotics: Science and Systems (2021)
Samuel E Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Zachary Zitzewitz, Evan Honnold, Jennifer Jain, Weifu Wang, Alberto Quattrini Li, Devin J Balkcom. "Droplet: Towards Autonomous Underwater Assembly of Modular Structures" Robotics: Science and Systems (2021)
Qijia Shao, Amy Sniffen, et al. "Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality". Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 4 (2020): 1 - 27.
Charles Carver, Qijia Shao, Samuel E Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Maxine Perroni-Sharf, Hunter Gallamt, Alberto Quattrini Li, Xia Zhou. "Sunflower: locating underwater robots from the air" MobiSys (2022)
Mingi Jeong, Monika Roznere, Samuel E Lensgraf, Amy Sniffen, Devin J Balkcom and Alberto Quattrini Li. "Catabot: Autonomous Surface Vehicle with an Optimized Design for Environmental Monitoring," Global Oceans (2020)