Dynamics and Vibrations
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
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, Robotics including medical robotics (surgical and rehabilitation applications), Modularity in mechanical systems, Graph-theoretic techniques in robotics and mechanical systems design
Experimental ultrasonics, Nanoindentation, Atomic force microscopy, Elastic wave propagation
Laboratories:
- Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Laboratories (Y. Dzenis)
- Dynamics and Vibrations Laboratory: (J. Turner)
- Dynamical Systems Lab
- Moore Dynamics and Analytics Laboratory (MoDAL) (K. Moore)
- Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory (Y. Dzenis)
- Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory: Computers, microcontrollers, mobile robots, and industrial robots