People

Faculty

Ralph Hollis, Professor Emeritus, Director

Administrative Coordinator

Christine Downey

Visiting Faculty

Graduate Students

Roberto Shu (Robotics)
Shreyas Srivatchan (Robotics)

Visiting Student Scholars

Postdoctoral Fellows

Project Scientists

Project Visitors

Research Staff

Associated Faculty and Staff

George Kantor, Senior Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute
Roberta Klatzky, Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Jodi Forlizzi, A. Nico Habermann Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
John Kozar , Electronics Engineer

Undergraduate Students

Ryan Lucht

MSL Graduates

Michael Shomin, Ph.D., Robotics, 2016

Navigation and Physical Interaction with Balancing Robots
Greg Seyfarth, M.S., Robotics, 2016

Design, Construction, and Evaluation of a Ballbot with a Spherical Induction Motor
Ankit Bhatia, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2014

Six Stator Spherical Induction Motor for Balancing Mobile Robots

Ph.D. student, CMU Robotics
Bhaskar Vaidya, M.S., Robotics, 2014

Operation of the Ballbot on Slopes and with Center-of-Mass Offsets

Champaign, Urbana
Umashankar Nagarajan, Ph.D., Robotics, 2012

Fast and Graceful Balancing Mobile Robots

Google Robotics, Mountain View, CA
Byungjun Kim, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2011

Ballbot Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot with Series Elastic Arms

Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Champagn-Urbana, IL
Bertram Unger, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

Psychophysics of Virtual Texture Perception

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Jonathan Hurst, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

The Role and Implementation of Compliance in Legged Locomotion

Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Galen Clark Haynes, Ph.D., Robotics, 2008

Gait Regulation Control Techniques for Robust Legged Locomotions

Senior Robotics Engineer, The Robotics Institute , Pittsburgh, PA
David Conner, Ph.D., Robotics, 2007

Integrating Planning and Control for Constrained Dynamical Systems

Research Scientist, TORC Technologies, Blacksburg VA
Vinithra Varadharajan, M.S., Robotics, 2007

Haptic Rendering and Psychophysical Evaluation of a Virtual 3-Dimensional Helical Spring

Software Engineer, Cloudera, Inc, San Francisco, CA
Sarjoun Skaff, Ph.D., Robotics, 2006

Context-Based State Estimation for Hybrid Systems with Intermittent Dynamics

CTO, Bossa Nova Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA
Anish Mampetta, M.S., Robotics, 2006

Automatic Transition of Ballbot from Statically Stable State to Dynamically Stable State

Engineer, MAKO Surgical, Inc.

Eric Schearer, M.S., Robotics, 2006

Modeling Dynamics and Exploring Control of a Single-Wheeled Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot with Arms

Ph.D. student, Case Western Reserve University

Kevin Oishi, M.S., Robotics, 2005
Aaron Greenfield, M.S., Robotics, 2005

United Technologies
Rob Schlender, M.S., Robotics, 2005

Calibrating Courier / Overhead Manipulator Pairs in Minifactory

Engineer, Lockheed Martin
David Maiwand, MS., Robotics, 2003
Richard DeLuca, M.S. , Robotics, 2000

Force-Based Interaction for Distributed Precision Assembly

Engineer, Stryker
Zack J. Butler, Ph.D., Robotics, 2000

Distributed Coverage of Rectilinear Environments

Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Arthur E. Quaid, Ph.D., Robotics, 2000

A Planar Robot for High-Performance Manipulation

Vivero One Research, LLC

Michael L. Chen, M.S. , ECE, 1999

Visually Guided Coordination for Distributed Precision Assembly

Volunteer, Americorp

Peter J. Berkelman, Ph.D. , Robotics, 1999

Tool-Based Haptic Interaction with Dynamic Physical Simulations using Lorentz Magnetic Levitation

Asociate Professor, University of Hawaii
Gregory Fries, M.S., Robotics, 1998

Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors

Engineer, Federal Express
Wing-Choi (Jimmy) Ma, M.S. , ECE, 1998

Optical Coordination Sensor for Precision Cooperating Robots

Engineer, GE Medical Systems