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Faculty Core Faculty: Atkins, Ella Professor, Aerospace Engineering
[email protected] Fault-tolerant sensing, reasoning, and acting to support safe, autonomous flight. Director of the Autonomous Aerospace Systems Lab, focusing on software-enabled autonomous flight with platforms including Flying Fish, Solar Sight, and flapping and fixed-wing craft endowed with comprehensive embedded aerodynamic sensing. Faculty Profile | Autonomous Aerospace Systems (A2Sys) Lab Website | YouTube Video
Barton, Kira Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Learning, precision coordination and motion control for multi agent systems with applications for manufacturing and autonomous robots, cooperative and vision-based control for autonomous robotic systems. Faculty Profile | Lab Website
Berenson, Dmitry Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[email protected] Creation/development of algorithms that allow robots to interact with the world and collaborate efficiently with people. Drawing on ideas in search, optimization, control theory, and topology to develop these planning algorithms and to prove their properties. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Chestek, Cynthia Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
[email protected] Implantable brain machine interfaces, neural control of prosthetic limbs and other assistive technology. Faculty Profile | Chestek Lab
Corso, Jason Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[email protected] Computer vision, cognitive system learning, robot interaction, mapping, tabletop robotics. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Eustice, Ryan Associate Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
[email protected] Computer vision and image processing, Bayesian filtering and smoothing, simultaneous localization and mapping. Faculty Profile | Perceptual Robotics Laboratory
Gaskell, Peter Lecturer, Robotics Institute
[email protected] Peter Gaskell is a Research & Development Engineer for the Robotics Institute and a laboratory instructor for ROB550 Robotics Systems Laboratory course. In addition to teaching, he designs and builds robotics platforms for both education and research. He has worked in a wide array of research labs in diverse fields such as Astrophysics, Atomic Optics, Nanoelectronics, Materials Science and Robotics. He is the co-founder and principle designer for a professional audio company and has designed equipment used to record multiple Grammy Award winning albums. He is also on the technical advisory board for a Montréal based start-up focused on using nanomaterials to improve sound quality and efficiency of transducers for the consumer electronics industry. He holds a BS in Physics from the University of Oregon, and earned his MEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University where his dissertation focussed on advanced nanomaterials for lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries.
Gates, Deanna Assistant Professor, Movement Science; Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
[email protected] Powered prostheses; human-robot interaction; outcomes assessment; 3-d movement analysis. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Gillespie, Brent Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Physical human-robot interaction, haptic interface, wearable robots. Faculty Profile | HaptiX Lab
Grizzle, Jessy Director of the Robotics Institute; Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor; Jerry and Carol Levin Professor of Engineering; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Bipedal locomotion, feedback control, nonlinear systems, CPS for robots and automotive systems. Faculty Profile | Profile Story | Faculty Website | Control Systems Laboratory | Dynamic Leg Locomotion YouTube Channel
Jenkins, Chad Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Mobile manipulation, computer vision, interactive robot systems, human-robot interaction. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | On National Geographic Live
Johnson-Roberson, Matthew Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
[email protected] Computer vision, field robotics, 3D reconstruction. Faculty Profile | Deep Robot Optical Perception Lab Website | YouTube Playlist
Koren, Yoram James J. Duderstadt Distinguished University Professor (emeritus); Professor (emeritus), Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Manufacturing system automation, adaptive control, mobile autonomous robots, semi-autonomous wheelchairs, navigation for blind users. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems | CARMEL Robot featured on CNN
Krishnan, Chandramouli Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Kinesiology), Biomedical Engineering
[email protected] Rehabilitation robotics, passive robots, wearable and mobile devices, low-cost technologies, neural plasticity, motor control. Faculty Profile | NeuRRo Lab
Kuipers, Benjamin Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Representation, learning, and using foundational domains of commonsense knowledge, including space, objects, actions, and morality and ethics. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Intelligent Robotics Lab | The Conversation: Ethical Robots
Olson, Edwin Computer Science and Engineering Machine perception, clustering and classification, tracking, navigation, planning, and map building. Director of APRIL and leader of Team Michigan which recently won the 2010 MAGIC competition. Faculty Profile | APRIL Robotics Laboratory | Meet Prof. Olson Video
Ozay, Necmiye Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[email protected] Control, optimization and formal methods with applications in cyber-physical system design, system identification, verification and validation, autonomy and vision. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Panagou, Dimitra Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
[email protected] Motion planning, coordination and control; robotic networks; autonomous multi-vehicle systems; nonlinear systems and control; navigation and guidance; distributed/decentralized control; dynamic coverage. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Remy, C. David Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] The Robotics and Motion Laboratory studies the design, optimization, and control of legged robots, rehabilitation devices, and other systems that exhibit natural dynamic motions. Faculty Profile | Robotics and Motion Laboratory | Prof. Remy on Saturday Morning Physics
Revzen, Shai Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
[email protected] Study of bio-inspired robotics and new methods and mechanisms for control. Scientific study of animal and human locomotion based on nonlinear dynamical systems, and application to design of legged robotic vehicles and other devices. Faculty Profile | Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems Lab
Robert, Lionel Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information
[email protected] Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, teamwork with robots, collaborative autonomous robots, teleoperation, human-autonomy/robot interaction Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Rouse, Elliott Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Precision machine design, development of robotic prostheses / exoskeletons, estimation of limb and joint mechanical impedance, neural control of locomotion, biomechanics. Faculty Profile | Neurobionics Lab
Sarter, Nadine Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
[email protected] Design and evaluation of multimodal (including touch) displays, human error and error management, attention/interruption management, and the design of decision support systems. Wide range of application domains, including aerospace operations, military operations, medicine, and car cockpits. Faculty Profile | The Human-Automation Interaction and Cognition Laboratory | Brief video lecture
Tilbury, Dawn Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[email protected] Control of manufacturing systems, teleoperation of small ground robots, shared control of robots between humans and autonomy, human-robot interaction. Faculty Profile | Tilbury Research Group
Ulsoy, Galip C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor; William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Deputy Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems
[email protected] Modeling, analysis and control of mechanical systems, including vehicle and robot control. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Automotive Research Center | Prof. Ulsoy's YouTube Channel
Vasudevan, Ram Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Optimization and control of nonlinear and hybrid dynamical systems, locomotion of legged robots, shared control active safety systems, techniques to automate diagnostic and rehabilitative tasks. Faculty Profile | Robotics and Optimization for Analysis of Human Motion Lab
Affiliate Faculty: Awtar, Shorya Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Precision engineering; mechatronics; flexure mechanisms; high-precision high-bandwidth motion systems for applications in nanometrology and nanomanufacturing; MEMS sensors and actuators; minimally invasive surgery. Faculty Profile | Precision Systems Design Laboratory | YouTube Video
Baveja, Satinder Singh Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Reinforcement learning and planning approaches to building artificial agents that can learn from experience to act autonomously in complex, stochastic, and partially-known environments. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | YouTube Course
Cutler, James Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
[email protected] Robotic exploration of space with emphasis on design optimization, sensor systems, communication networks, and novel nanosatellite missions. Faculty Profile | Michigan Exploration Laboratory
Deng, Jia Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Computer vision, machine learning, human computation, image and video understanding, big visual data. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Ding, Zhao Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Autonomous vehicles, smart/connected transportation, traffic safety and rare event analysis, human machine interaction, dynamics and control, machine learning, and big data analysis. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Durfee, Ed Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Co-director, Technology Increasing Knowledge: Technology Optimizing Choice (TIKTOC), U-M Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
[email protected] Intelligent coordination among multiple autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Director of the Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles (RAV) M. Eng. Degree program at Integrative Systems + Design Division (ISD). Faculty Profile | Distributed Intelligent Agents Group Website | YouTube Video
Ersal, Tulga Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Autonomous vehicles, teleoperation, system dynamics and control, multibody dynamics, energy management, mathematical modeling. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Girard, Anouck Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
[email protected] Nonlinear control and systems engineering with applications to unmanned vehicle systems, and Director of the Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Control Sciences. Faculty Profile | Aerospace, Robotics, and Controls (ARC) Laboratory
Jin, Judy Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
[email protected] Statistical methods for quality and reliability engineering with the focus on distributed sensing, dynamic system modeling, online monitoring and diagnosis, and optimal decision-making for improving system design, operations, and maintenance strategies. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Kamat, Vineet Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected] Collaborative autonomous robots for construction, inspection, and maintenance of civil infrastructure. Faculty Profile | Laboratory for Interactive Visualization in Engineering (LIVE) | YouTube Channel
Lafortune, Stephane Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[email protected] System and control theory; discrete event systems; cyber-physical systems. Supervisory control, fault diagnosis, security and privacy in control systems. Formal methods of control. Application to automated and autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, software systems, and computer systems.
Laird, John John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Autonomous intelligent robots, integration of robotic and cognitive architecture, interactive task learning. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Lasecki, Walter Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Assistant Professor, School of Information
[email protected] Crowdsourcing, human computation, Human-in-the-Loop Robotics, intelligent systems and scene understanding and annotation. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Lee, Honglak Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Artificial intelligence, signal and image processing, robotics and computer vision. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Lee, SangHyun Associate Professor and John L. Tishman Faculty Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[email protected] Human Robot Collaboration in Construction, Markerless Motion Capture, Brain Robot Interface Faculty Profile | Dynamic Project Management
McGee, Wes Assistant Professor, Architecture and Material Performance (Architecture and Urban Planning) Robotic applications in architecture and construction, large-scale digital fabrication, offline simulation tool development, online control and sensing, algorithmic and parametric design workflows. Faculty Profile | matterdesign website
Mihalcea, Rada Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[email protected] Natural language processing, computational social sciences, multimodal tracking and understanding of human behavior. Human-Robot interaction. Faculty Website
Moldwin, Mark Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
[email protected] Magnetometer and integrated sensor development for localization and navigation, with applications for indoor, underground, underwater and other GPS denied environments. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Mower Provost, Emily Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] Audio-visual modeling of human behavior focusing on emotion. Focus on assistive speech-based technologies. Faculty Profile | Computational Human-Centered Analysis and Integration Laboratory Website
Ojeda, Lauro Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Research interests include mobile robotics, position estimation, sensor fusion, simulation , adaptive systems, control systems and digital signal processing. This research enables projects in the fields of accurate localization and tracking systems for mobile robots and humans. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Oldham, Kenn Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Design, fabrication, dynamics, sensing, and control of microscale systems, including autonomous, millimeter-scale micro-robots. Faculty Profile | Microdynamics Laboratory: Microsystems
Orosz, Gabor Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected] Connected and automated vehicles, ground robots, networks and complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and control, time-delay systems. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Video: Ground Robotics Experiment
Peng, Huei Roger L. McCarthy Professor; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; US Director, US-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium
[email protected] Adaptive and optimal control, particularly for energy systems, including hybrid vehicles and small robots. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center | Prof. Peng speaks at Robotics Day 2014
Reed, Matthew University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute; Research Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
[email protected] Human motion tracking and simulation; grasp modeling; computational modeling of perception, cognition, and motor action; driving monitoring and simulation. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
Robertson, Jennifer Professor, Anthropology and History of Art (LSA)
[email protected] Human-robot coexistence and interaction, especially as visualized and practiced in Japan (and East Asia more generally); robot rights vs. human rights; robot ethics; robot design; gendering robots and robot gender (especially humanoids); robot therapy and robot caregivers. Faculty Profile
Stein, Jeffrey Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Automotive Research Center
[email protected] Systems and control including machine design, control, monitoring, and diagnostics; physical system modeling; automated modeling; bond graph theory; proper modeling of active suspensions; proper vehicle handling and ride models; high efficiency dynamic formulations for vehicle dynamics. Faculty Profile | Automotive Research Center
Yang, Xi Jessie Assistant Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
[email protected] Human-autonomy/robot interaction, primarily focused on modeling human users' trust in automation/robots and designing interfaces that facilitate trust calibration and HAI/HRI team performance. Faculty Profile | Faculty Website
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