Stories from across the seam: my recent travels into art practice

Garth Zeglin

Abstract

I will attempt to elucidate why my new second career as an artist is so much fun. I will present documentation of my projects, as well as present work from others whom I have found influential, or at least, fascinating. The focus will be on fabric and robotic sculpture.
The talk will include a robotics interlude:

Passive Dead Reckoning Compensation for a Tensile Manipulator

Tensile manipulators using capstan winches can offer high speed and large workspace, but suffer from substantial dead reckoning drift. A novel passive solution will be presented for dead reckoning compensation utilizing an obstacle collision strategy implemented via trajectory selection.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Garth Zeglin is a Project Scientist in the Robotics Institute working with Chris Atkeson on a bipedal walking robot. However, his CMU appointment is half-time, and he spends his other half on a variety of projects including robotic and fabric sculpture.

 

Speaker Appointments

For appointments, please contact Garth Zeglin (garthz@cs.cmu.edu).