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Design and System Integration of a Compliant Mobile Base APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE:
No full textAshish DeshpandeDedicated to my brothers and my parents – I would never have made it this far without you. Acknowledgments I wish to thank numerous people who have made this work possible, including my main adviser Dr. Luis Sentis for overseeing the entire project, and former colleague Somudro Gupta (’11) for his large work on this project from 2010 to 2011, especially for Trikey Versions 1 and 3. I must further thank Frank Lima, Matt Gonzalez, Josh Petersen, Nick Paine, Sehoon Oh, Vansi Vallabhaneni, Emily Chen, Alan Kwok, and Kwan Suk Kim for aiding in various technical parts of the overall “Dreamer ” project. I also received helpful feedback and relevant knowledge from Dr. Ashish Desphande, the second reviewer of my thesis, and also from courses taught by Dr. Kristin Wood, Dr. Rick Neptune, and Dr. Glenn Masada. I thank the students and Lonny Stern at the Skillpoint Alliance in Austin, Texas, for initiating this project idea and Meka Robotics in San Francisco, California, for assistance in its implementation. I thank my sources of funding for graduate study that have greatl
