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1998 Winner: Outstanding Undergraduate Award
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He was nominated for his work on the design, construction, and control of self-reconfigurable robots. Self-configuring robots are made of identical robot modules that can dynamically change their internal geometric structure to adapt to their operating environment and required functionality. Marsette designed and built the first robotic module capable of three-dimensional self-reconfiguration. He made contributions to its fabrication process and control algorithms as well. He is now working both on creating and testing a distributed system of these robots and on developing a new self-configuring robotic design using cubic modules.
Marsette is also the winner of the Francis L. Town Scientific Prize, the Philip R. Jackson Award, and the Microsoft Outstanding Junior Award.
Marsette Vona's homepage.
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