Systems, Design and Controls
Robotic Highway Safety Markers, Miniature Surgical Robots, Real-Time Measurement of Track Stiffness, Planetary Cliff Descent Using Cooperative Robots
Dynamical systems theory, control and optimization with applications to swarm robotics, multi-agent decision making, microfluidics, active fluids, nonlinear vibration, nonlinear energy transfers, and metamaterials
Stretchable electronics, soft robotics, soft materials, liquid metals, bio-inspired engineering, wearable biomonitoring
Theoretical & experimental nonlinear dynamics & vibrations, Nonlinear system identification, Data-driven modeling & identification, Nonlinear energy guiding, Reduced-order modeling of bolted joint loosening, Multi-dimensional vibration mitigation
Mechanical systems design and analysis, Medical robotics (including surgical and rehabilitation applications), Modularity in mechanical systems, Graph-theoretic techniques in robotics and mechanical systems design
Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Processes; Systems Sensing and Control of Traditional and Nontraditional macro, micro and nano Manufacturing Processes
Precision Engineering; Metrology; Mechanical Design; Manufacturing; Collaborative Engineering, Science and Technology Policy; Economic Development
Mechanobiology, Cell Mechanics, Mechanotransduction, Cell-Cell adhesion, BioMEMS
Laboratories:
- Dynamical Systems Lab
- Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory: Computers, microcontrollers, mobile robots, and industrial robots
- Smart Materials and Robotics Laboratory (E. Markvicka)