Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Joint Appointment with the Institute for Systems Research

Microrobotics, networked multi-robot systems, and sensor networks
(301) 405-6506 |  sarahb@umd.edu | website | Room 2170 Building 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Vita
Dr. Bergbreiter graduated with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1999. After a short period at a small startup company working on home automation technologies, she began graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. In 2004, she received her M.S.E.E. for designing the CotsBots - a networked robotics platform built on top of Berkeley's Mica motes and TinyOS. She has recently completed her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering by designing and fabricating autonomous jumping microrobots. Her research interests include microrobotics, MEMS, networked multi-robot systems, and sensor networks.

Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2007
M.S.E.E. University of California, Berkeley, 2004
B.S.E. Princeton University, 1999

Selected Publications
Bergbreiter, S.; Pister, K.S.J. "Design of an Autonomous Jumping Microrobot," ICRA 2007, Rome, April 10-14, 2007.

Bergbreiter, S.; Pister, K.S.J. "An Elastomer-Based Micromechanical Energy Storage System," ASME 2006, Chicago, IL, November 5-9, 2006.

S. Hollar, A. Flynn, S. Bergbreiter, and K. S. J. Pister, "Robot Leg Motion in a Planarized-SOI, Two-Layer Poly-Si Process," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 14, pp. 725-740, 2005.

Bergbreiter, S.; Pister, K.S.J. "CotsBots: An Off-the-Shelf Platform for Distributed Robotics," IROS 2003, Las Vegas, NV, October 27-31, 2003

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