Chloe defends her PhD

Today, CRL celebrated another major milestone as Chloe Pogue successfully defended her PhD thesis.

Days like this are a reminder that mentorship and supervision are among the most rewarding aspects of academia. We are proud of Chloe’s accomplishments, her journey, and the outstanding engineer and researcher she has become.

In her thesis Improving Continuum Robot Stiffness through Joining, Chloe investigated multi-robot systems. She designed joining mechanisms with varying kinematic degrees of freedom and integrated at different body locations of tendon-driven continuum robots. Investigating the effects of robot joining on the manipulability, stiffness, and dynamics, Chloe gained new insights for utilizing robot joining to extend the operational capabilities of continuum robots into force-demanding industrial tasks. Stay tuned for forthcoming publications!

Chloe was jointly supervised by Professors Jessica Burgner-Kahrs and Eric Diller. Her PhD committee included Professors Hani Naguib, Ridha Ben Mrad, Pakpong Chirarattananon (internal-external examiner), and Matteo Russo (external examiner, University of Rome), who travelled from Italy to participate in the final oral examination.

Beyond her research contributions, Chloe has been a valued member of CRL, mentoring junior students, contributing to the lab culture, and generously sharing her expertise in robot design and experimental methods with the next generation of continuum robotics researchers.

Chloe will start working at Apple in June and move to the west coast. Congratulations, Chloe! We are proud to have you in our academic family. You will be greatly missed in the lab!