Michael T. Tolley, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Press Coverage

Robots Podcast: Programmable Matter [mp3]

Refereed Journal Publications

Tolley M. T., Lipson H. (2011) "On-line Assembly Planning for Stochastically Reconfigurable Systems", International Journal of Robotics Research, 30:13, pp. 1566 - 1584.

Kalontarov M., Tolley M. T., Lipson H., Erickson D. (2010) "Hydrodynamically Driven Docking of Blocks for 3D Fluidic Assembly", Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 9, pp. 551–558.

Tolley M. T., Kalontarov M., Neubert J., Erickson D., Lipson H. (2010) "Stochastic Modular Robotic Systems: A Study of Fluidic Assembly Strategies", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26, pp. 518-530.

Krishnan M., Tolley M. T., Lipson H., Erickson D. (2009) "Hydrodynamically Tunable Fluidic Affinities for Fluidic Assembly", Langmuir, 25, pp. 3769-3774.

Tolley M. T., Krishnan M., Erickson D., Lipson H. (2008) "Dynamically Programmable Fluidic Assembly", Applied Physics Letters, 93, 254105. **Also appeared in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, vol. 19, 2**

Krishnan M., Tolley M. T., Lipson H., Erickson D. (2008) "Increased Robustness for Fluidic Self Assembly", Physics of Fluids, 20, 073304. **Also appeared in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, vol. 18, 5**

Refereed Conference Publications

Tolley, M. T., Lipson, H., (2011) "Programmable 3D Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of cm-Scale Modules", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), September 2011, pp. 4366-4371.

Tolley, M. T., Lipson, H., (2010) "Three Dimensional Stochastic Fluidic Assembly of Minimalistic Modules", Proc. McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines Symp. on Brain, Body, and Machine, Montreal QC, November 2010, pp. 2473-2478.

Tolley, M. T., Lipson, H., (2010) "Fluidic Manipulation for Scalable Stochastic 3D Assembly of Modular Robots", Proc. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage AK, May 2010, pp. 2473-2478.

Tolley, M. T., Hiller, J., Lipson, H., (2009) "Evolutionary Design and Assembly Planning for Stochastic Modular Robots", Proc. Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Exploring New Horizons in Evolutionary Design of Robots Workshop, St. Louis MO, October 2009, pp. 73-78.

Tolley M. T., Erickson D., Lipson H. (2009) “Fluidic Assembly of Programmable Matter”, Cornell Engineering Research Conference (CERC), Ithaca NY, April 2009.

Krishnan M., Tolley M. T., Lipson H., Erickson D. (2008) "Dynamically Tunable Affinities for Fluidic Self Assembly", Am. Inst. of Chem. Engineers (AICHE) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, November 2008, 485e.

Tolley M. T., Krishnan M., Lipson H., Erickson D. (2008) "Advances Towards Programmable Matter", Proc. Int. Conf. Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS), San Diego CA, October 2008, pp. 653-655.

Chung M., Malone E., Tolley M. T., Chepaitis A. J., Lipson H., (2008) “Object Augmentation for the Visually Impaired Using RP”, Proc. Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symp., Austin TX, August 2008.

Tolley M. T., Baisch A., Krishnan M., Erickson D., Lipson H., (2008) “Interfacing Methods for Fluidically-Assembled Microcomponents”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Tucson AZ, January 2008, pp. 1073-1076.

Krishnan M., Tolley M. T., Lipson H., Erickson D., (2007) “Directed Hierarchical Self Assembly - Active Fluid Mechanics at the Micro and Nanoscales”, Proc. ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Cong. and Expo. (IMECE), Seattle WA, November 2007. * Winner of Best Presentation award *

Tolley M. T., Zykov V., Lipson H., Erickson D., (2006) “Directed Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microscale Tiles”, Proc. Int. Conf. Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS), Tokyo Japan, October 2006, pp. 1552-1554.

Other Conference Publications

Tolley M. T., Krishnan M., Erickson D., Lipson H. (2008) “Approaches to dynamically programmable self-assembly”, Proceedings of Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO), Snowbird, UT, April 2008.

Dissertations

Tolley, M. T. (2010) “Programmable Stochastic Assembly of Microscale Components”, Doctoral Dissertation, A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

Book Chapters

Tolley, M. T., Hiller, J., Lipson, H., (2010) "Evolutionary Design and Assembly Planning for Stochastic Modular Robots", in Bredeche N., Doncieux S. and Mouret J.-B. (Eds.), New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics: post-proceedings of the 2010 EvoDeRob workshop (in press). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Art Exhibitions

Stochastic fluidic assembly work featured in "Digital Matter" by Joris Laarman, part of the "Modern by design" exhibition, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, June-August 2011.