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| Senior Members | ||
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| FASN Role |
Position |
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| Dr. Joseph Schimmels | Director | Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MU |
| Dr. Jacob Rice | Managing Director | Staff, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MU |
| Dr. Shuguang Huang | Researcher | Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MU |
| Collaborators | ||
|---|---|---|
| Research |
Position |
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| Dr. Kyuil Kim | Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MU | |
| Dr. Phil Voglewede | https://www.eng.mu.edu/~voglewedep/ | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MU |
| Dr. Cris Ababei | http://dejazzer.com/ | Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., MU |
| Student Participants | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Current |
Degree Sought |
Project Description |
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| Charlie O'Brien | BSME | Design and build equipment to demonstrate various mechanical considerations in motion control systems. | |
| Charlie O'Neill | BSME | Design and build equipment to demonstrate various mechanical considerations in motion control systems. | |
| Past | Major |
Project Completion Year |
Project Description |
| Isabella Koeppen | BSME | 2024 | |
| Jonah Harlan | BSME | 2024 | Investigate different methods of collecting, saving, and displaying data relevant to industrial automation systems. Create a demonstration using automation data for predictive maintenance. |
| Tony Shilati | BSME | 2024 | Create a software GUI application for synthesizing planar compliant mechanisms. |
| Jacob Frye | MSME | 2024 | Design, build, and test a tendon-driven hand with 3 fingers, each finger with 3 variable elastic joints. Compare results with tradition force control. |
| Allison Goetz | MSME | 2023 | Design, build, and test a tendon-driven finger with 3 variable elastic joints. |
| Andrew Bernhard | MSME | 2023 | Design, build, and test a 3R arm with 3 variable elastic joints. Compare results with tradition force control. |
| Nico Yah | BSCO | 2022 | Program an industrial robot to play bananagrams. |
| Jacob Frye | BSME | 2022 | Compare motion control performance characteristics of stepper motors (using different microstep levels) and servo motors. |
| Jacob Frye | BSME | 2021 | Investigate the use of bonded reinforcing elements in FDM 3D printed parts. |
| Tony Carrasco | BSME | 2020 | Program a collaborative robot to play bananagrams. |
| Allison Goetz | BSME | 2020 | Design, build, and test an automated assembly cell with 3 motion axes, a SCARA robot, and other automation equipment. |
| Matthew Delage | BSME | 2020 | Design, build, and test an automated assembly cell with 3 motion axes, a SCARA robot, and other automation equipment. |
| Ryan Moore | MSME | 2020 | Design, build, test, and compare two designs of a tendon-driven variable elastic joint with a near linear torque-deflection relationship. |
| Phillip Vasquez | BSME | 2019 | Build and integrate a 3-fingered underactuated robot gripper (single motor) |
| Jerry Steele | BSME | 2019 | Build and integrate a 2-fingered underactuated robot gripper (two motors) |
| Jacob Rice | Ph.D. | 2018 | Passive Compliance Control of Redundant Serial Manipulators |
| Chloe King | BSME | 2018 | Investigate and demonstrate ROS middleware for the control of cobots |
| Fernando Rodriguez Anton | MSME | 2013 | Admittance selection for force guided assembly of planar pegs in holes with optimal motion |
| Luis E. Criales Escobar | MSME | 2009 | Develope a velocity metric for planar rigid body motion |
| Steven C. Wiemer | MSME | 2007 | Optimal admittance characteristics for force-assembly of convex polygonal parts |
| Feng Pan | MSME | 2004 | Contact state and extremal configuration identification for force guided assembly |
| David Schneider | MSME | 1997 | Design, build, and test a compliant mechanism for improved robot positioning |
| Shuguang Huang | Ph.D. | 1998 | Analysis and Synthesis of Spatial Compliance |
