MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS
FACULTY
Yusuf Altintas
Research Interests: modeling & analysis of machining processes, design & computer control of machine tool spindle & feed drives, mechanics, dynamics & control of micro-machining operations, design of virtual high performance machining simulation system, on line detection and suppression of chatter
Adam Clare
Research Interests: Manufacturing technologies and approaches for a sustainable future; additive manufacturing (materials, processes, design and application); electrical discharge machining, electrolyte jet machining, electron beam and laser processes; stochastics in engineering design and manufacture; machine design and build; manufacturing for high value and high integrity applications (aerospace, biomedical, tool and nuclear).
Clarence de Silva
Research Interests: multi-robot systems and applications including Homecare, process automation, mechatronics; integrated and automated design, control sensors and actuators, automated machine monitoring, diagnosis and repair, telemedicine, environmental monitoring
Hsi-Yung (Steve) Feng
Research interests: CAD/CAM/CAI (Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing & Inspection), emphasis on: scanning-derived geometric modeling, three-axis & five-axis CNC machining, 3D laser scanning and computational/coordinate metrology
Xiaoliang Jin
Research Interests: manufacturing processes for advanced materials, vibration assisted machining, machining mechanics & dynamics, material characterization, surface integrity, hybrid additive and subtractive process for part repair and remanufacturing
Dominic Liao-McPherson
Research Interests: model predictive control; constrained control; multi-agent systems; optimization algorithms and real-time optimization; algorithmic game theory; additive manufacturing; robotics; autonomous vehicles; energy systems; aerospace
Hongshen Ma
Research Interests: microfluidics, instrumentation, cell sorting, cell biomechanics, circulating tumor cells, malaria and red blood cell, deformability, single cell technologies, cell migration and chemotaxis
Ryozo Nagamune
Research Interests: Control Engineering: multiple robust control, parameter variation identification, nevanlinna-pick interpolation approach to robust control, machine tool servo control, wind turbine control, automotive engine control, hard disk drive track-following control, robust chatter stability analysis, magnetically actuated microlens control
Robert N. Rohling
Research Interests: biomedical engineering, medical imaging, medical information systems, robotics
Christoph Sielmann
Research Interests: instrumentation, nanofabrication technology, MEMS, clean energy, artificial intelligence
Machiel Van der Loos
Research Interests: Robotics: rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interaction; Design: design for safety, design methodology and design, coaching, roboethics
Kefei Wen
Research Interests: Kinematics, dynamics, and control of parallel mechanisms; parallel continuum robots; physical human-robot cooperation
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