Vijay Kumar Professor School of Engineering & Applied Sciences University of Pennsylvania

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AFFILIATIONS

• Chairman, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• Computer & Information Science (Secondary Appointment), School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• UPS Foundation Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP), University of Pennsylvania
• SEAS Office of Research, University of Pennsylvania

CONFERENCES

• Workshop on Cooperative Control, June 10-11, 2003 [Proceedings (new)]
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Barcelona, April 18-22, 2005
• Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 8-11, 2005
• Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems, Napa, CA, August 3-4, 2005
• Collective Behaviors inspired by Biological and Biochemical Systems at ICRA, Rome, Italy, April 14, 2007
• International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10-13, 2006 [Call for Papers]

RESEARCH

• The SWARMS project
• Multiple Autonomous Robot Systems (recent demonstration at Ft. Benning)
• Differential Algebraic and Variational Inequalites in Control and Simulation
• Smart Chair
• Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Biomolecular and Cellular Networks
• MoBies

COMMITTEES

• NAS Committee on Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope (pre-publication copy of report)
• NSF/NASA Committee on Assessment of International Research and Development in Robotics

PUBLICATIONS

• Journal Publications
• Conference Publications
• Book Chapters

STUDENTS

• Postdoctoral fellows
• Ben Grocholsky
• Peng Cheng
• Luiz Chaimowicz
• Savvas Loizou
  
• Ph.D. students
• Ani Hsieh
• Meghann Lomas
• Jong Woo Kim
• Fan (Michael) Zhang
• Rahul Rao
• Sarangi Patel Parikh
• Ethan Stump
• Nathan Michael
• Matthew Ulrich
• Sachin Chitta

FORMER STUDENTS

Postdoctoral fellows

• Rafael Fierro, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University.
• Greg Grudic, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boulder, Colorado.
• John Wright, Assistant Professor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Ph.D. students

· Nathan Ulrich, Mechanical Design Optimization of Manipulator Design Performance, Fall 1990.
President, Technique Applied Science, Inc.

· Jung-ha Kim, Kinematics and Statics of Multifingered Grippers, Fall 1990.
Professor, Kook Min University, Seoul, N. Korea.

· Yin-Tien Wang, Analysis and Simulation of Mechanical Systems with Multiple Frictional Contacts, Summer 1992.
Associate Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan.

· Nilanjan Sarkar, Control of Mechanical Systems with Rolling Contacts, Spring 1993 (co-supervised by X.Yun).
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University.

· Mohamed Ouerfelli, Kinematics of Head Movements in Paraplegics and Interaction with Robot Manipulators, November 1994.
Assistant Professor, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.

· William Howard, Stability of Grasps: Beyond Force Closure, June 1995.
Manager, Kliklok Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.

· Chau-Chang Wang, Kinematics and Control of Redundant Nonholonomic Systems, August 1995.
Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.

· Milos Zefran, Continuous Methods for Motion Planning, December 1996.
Postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago.

· Jaydev Desai, Motion Planning and Control of Multiple Robots, 1998.
Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Assistant Professor, Drexel University.

· Venkat Krovi,  Design and Virtual Prototyping of User Customized Assistive Devices, 1998.
Assistant Professor, McGill University.

· Tom Sugar, Design and Control of Cooperating Manipulators, 1999.
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University.

· Peng Song, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Multibody Systems with Contact and Friction, 2002.
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.

· Calin Belta, Geometric Methods for Multirobot Planning and Control, 2003.
Assistant Professor, Drexel University.

· Aveek Das, Cooperative Control of Robot Formations, 2004.
Sarnoff Corporation.

· Joel Esposito, Simulation and Control of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Mobile Robotics, 2002.
Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy.

· Rahul Rao, Image Based Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle from an Overhead Camera, 2004.
Intel Corporation.

Masters Students

· Michael C. Johnson, 1989

· George Pfreundschuh, 1990

· Leslie Johnson, 1991

· Thomas G. Sugar, 1992

· J. Chris Gerdes, 1992

· Seshadri Narasimhan, 1994

· Greg Garvin, 1994

· Parris Wellman, 1994

· Milos Zefran, 1995

· Venkat Krovi, December 1995

· Brad Dufour, December 1997

· Robert Breslawski, December 1999

· Fred Heger, 2004

· William Yeoh , 2004

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Last updated : December 31, 2004