Alumni - Masters Students

  1. Jaidev Singh, A Hierarchical Architecture in Computer Integrated Manufacturing for Real–Time Control of a Robotic Filament Winding System, February, 1990.
  2. Tony De La Rosa, Design and Implementation of a Single–Axis Discrete Controller for the GCA P300V Manipulator, August, 1990.
  3. Hua Qiang Li, Modeling and Control of a Mechanical System with Nonholonomic Constraints, December, 1990.
  4. Robert Buche, Modeling and Control of a Flexible Beam with a Movable Base, June, 1991.
  5. Chao Ting Kuo, Comparative Studies of Robot Control Strategies, May, 1991.
  6. Ron Brandow, Implementation and Characterization of a GCA Robotic System, May 1992.
  7. Declan Hughes, Single Link Flexible Beam Testbed Project, August 1992.
  8. Reece Zomar, A Comparative Study of Flexible Beam Control Algorithms, August 1992.
  9. Lee Wilfinger, A Comparison of Force Control Algorithms for Robots in Contact with Flexible Environments. November 1992.
  10. Alex Ross, Controller Comparison for a High Friction Robotic Platform, November, 1993.
  11. Ahmed Syed, Modeling and Control of Thermal Spraying, Aug. 1994.
  12. Craig Bennett, Spacecraft Orbit Estimation, May, 1995.
  13. Yi-Ping Huang, Fitting a Woven Cloth to a Curved Surface, November 1996.
  14. Matt Meyers, Aluminum Extrusion: A Comparison Between Upper Bound Analysis and Finite Element Analysis, December, 1997.
  15. David Mintz, Control Motivated Modeling and Study of Resistive Spot Welding, December, 1997.
  16. John Zaino, Position Accommodation Force Control of an Anthropomorphic Hand, December, 1997.
  17. Mark Allan, Modeling and Control Oxygenation Process, May, 1999.
  18. Qiang Li The Design and Implementation of a Real-time DSP based Control System, May, 2001.
  19. Ben Potsaid. (Mechanical Engineering Dept.) Design and Control of the Edubot: A Reconfigurable Testbed for Controls Research and Education, December, 2001.
  20. Justin Gullota, Investigation of Tethered Spacecraft Formation, December,2001.
  21. Mohd Haris, Robotic Visual Servoing, December, 2001.
  22. Sangwon Oh. A Comparative Study of Feedforward Control to Suppress Vibrations, August, 2002.
  23. Ariel Locarich: A Simulation Study of Passivity Based Network Flow Control, provided main thesis idea and major guidance, Aug, 2002. Advisor: B.Sikdar.
  24. Julie Neiling: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Rotary Inverted Pendulum, May, 2003.
  25. Bill Gressick: A Comparative Study of Order Reduction Methods for Finite Element Models , Dec, 2003.
  26. Patricia Hoffmann: The Reaction Wheel Pendulum: Analysis, Control, and Implementation, Jun, 2004.
  27. Chris Colasuonno: “Force Control on a Quadruped Mobile Robot,”, Dec, 2005.
  28. Claus Danielson: Extremum Seeking Control for Adaptive Optics, Dec, 2005 (Mechanical Engineering Dept.)
  29. He Bai, Passivity Based Formation Control (jointly with M. Arcak), August 2007.
  30. John Wason (MANE): Probe Based Microassembly, Dec, 2007.
  31. Peter van den Broek (visiting M.S. student): Laser Actuated Shape Memory Alloy Mobile Micro-Robots (jointly advised with Yves Bellouard and Ben Potsaid) Dec, 2007.
  32. Linda Rivera, “Worm Tracking using Superposition of Merit Functions,” April, 2008.
  33. Charles Scott, “Off-Axis Aberration Correction for Wide Field of View Scanning Telescope,” April, 2008.
  34. Karen Downum, “Vision based Coordination of Multiple Mobile Robots,” December, 2008.
  35. Matt Boucher, “Active Control of Flow Separation and Structural Vibrations of an S809 Airfoil,” April, 2009.
  36. Jiaxiang Zhang (Physics), “Stained Slides Scanning Based on LED Illumination,” May, 2010
  37. Melissa Hershey (MANE), “Development of a Vision-Based Robot Localization System,” May, 2010
  38. Mike Kleinigger, “A Novel Six Degree-Of-Freedom Sensor with Applications in Disturbance Compensation,” August, 2010
  39. Rich Fry, “The Application of Epoxy in a Microassembly System,” May, 2011.
  40. Evan Frank (MANE), “Adaptive Illumination Control for Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy,” August, 2011.
  41. DanielPollock(MANE),“Control-OrientedDynamicModelingofVaporCompression Cycles for Electronics Cooling,” July, 2012.
  42. Bozhong Kang (ECSE) (Jointly supervised with Leila Parsa) “Lithium Ion Battery Discharge Simulation and Experimental Verification” Dec, 2012.
  43. Sumit Mukherjee (ECSE) (jointly with Sandipan Mishra), “A Passivity based Appraoch to Building Temperature Control,” May 2013.
  44. Nate Macias (ECSE), “Visual and Gesture Guided Robotic Block Stacking,” Dec 2013.
  45. Greg Silva (ECSE) (jointly with Daryl Ludlow), “Use of Impedance Tagging to Monitor Fuel Cell Stack Performance,” Mar 2014.
  46. Sihui Li (MANE) “Design, Control and Application of a Force Feedback System in Teleoperation,” May 2015.
  47. Chintan Kaur, “Language based Shared Control of a Mobile-Manipulator Robotic Assistant for Quadriplegics,” Apr 2016.
  48. Andrew Cunningham, “Control and State Estimation of a Mobile Assistive Robot,” May 2017.
  49. Greg Grebe (co-term), “Vision Based Control of a Mobile Robot for Driving Applications,” May 2017.
  50. Nicholas Kesler, "Image-based Robotic Satellite Control in a Laboratory Setting," May 2021
  51. Benjamin Mo, "Trajectory Prediction for Assistive Robotics," May 2021
  52. Jiawei Li, "Decentralized Control for Cooperative Load Transport," May 2021
  53. Benjamin Rosoff, December 2021.
  54. Chuizheng Kong, May 2023.
  55. Liam Peck, December 2023.