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Position
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
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
Andrew Bernhard MSME   Design, build, and test a 3R arm with 3 variable elastic joints. Compare results with tradition force control.
Allison Goetz MSME   Design, build, and test a tendon-driven finger with 3 variable elastic joints.
Jacob Frye MSME   Design, build, and test a tendon-driven hand with 3 fingers, each finger with 3 variable elastic joints. Compare results with tradition force control.
Tony Shilati BSME   Create a software GUI application for synthesizing planar compliant mechanisms.
Past Major
Project Completion Year
Project Description
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. 1988 Analysis and Synthesis of Spatial Compliance