Dynamics and Vibrations

  • Elasticity of Nonhomogeneous Media and Functionally Graded Materials
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Mechanical Vibrations, Nonlinear Vibrations
  • Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Autonomous/cooperative vehicles; advanced driver assistance systems; powertrain control, automotive control
  • Dynamics and control; networked/distributed control systems; hybrid systems; model predictive control;
  • Object tracking, sensor fusion, localization, motion planning and control algorithms for mobile robots;
  • Hardware-in-the-loop testing; rapid control prototyping; mechatronic system architecting
  • Soft Robotics, Medical Robotics, Collaborative Robotics, Robotic Grippers
  • Haptics, Haptic Interfaces, Tactile Displays
  • Modeling & Analysis of Mechatronic and Robotic Systems, Experimental Evaluation
  • Multi-body dynamics
  • Vibrations and acoustics, vibration isolation systems
  • Phononic band gap structures, elastic metamaterials
  • Passive anti-resonance generation methods
  • Design of displacement amplifiers and motion converters