Core Faculty:
Atkins, Ella
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
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 |
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Barton, Kira
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Berenson, Dmitry
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Chestek, Cynthia
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Implantable brain machine interfaces, neural control of prosthetic limbs and other assistive technology.
Faculty Profile | Chestek Lab |
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Corso, Jason
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer vision, cognitive system learning, robot interaction, mapping, tabletop robotics.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Eustice, Ryan
Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Computer vision and image processing, Bayesian filtering and smoothing, simultaneous localization and mapping.
Faculty Profile | Perceptual Robotics Laboratory | Google Scholar
Gaskell, Peter
Lecturer, Robotics Institute
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
Associate Professor, Movement Science; Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Powered prostheses; human-robot interaction; outcomes assessment; 3-d movement analysis.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Gillespie, Brent
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Physical human-robot interaction, haptic interface, wearable robots.
Faculty Profile | HaptiX Lab | Google Scholar
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
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 | Google Scholar
Jenkins, Chad
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Mobile manipulation, computer vision, interactive robot systems, human-robot interaction.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | On National Geographic Live
Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
Associate Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Computer vision, field robotics, 3D reconstruction.
Faculty Profile | Deep Robot Optical Perception Lab Website | YouTube Playlist | Google Scholar
Koren, Yoram
James J. Duderstadt Distinguished University Professor (emeritus); Professor (emeritus), Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Krishnan, Chandramouli
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Kinesiology), Biomedical Engineering
Rehabilitation robotics, passive robots, wearable and mobile devices, low-cost technologies, neural plasticity, motor control.
Faculty Profile | NeuRRo Lab | Google Scholar
Kuipers, Benjamin
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
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 | Google Scholar
Ozay, Necmiye
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Control, optimization and formal methods with applications in cyber-physical system design, system identification, verification and validation, autonomy and vision.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Panagou, Dimitra
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Remy, C. David
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Revzen, Shai
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Robert, Lionel
Associate Professor of Information, School of Information
Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, teamwork with robots, collaborative autonomous robots, teleoperation, human-autonomy/robot interaction.
By way of introduction, I am an Associate Professor in the School of Information (UMSI) at the University of Michigan and a core faculty member of Michigan Robotics (Robotics). I am the director of the Michigan Autonomous Vehicle Research Intergroup Collaboration (MAVRIC). I am also an affiliate of the Michigan Interactive and Social Computing (MISC) Research Group.
My research in the area of human robot collaboration typically involves understanding how to facilitate more effective collaborations between humans and robots. Below you will find links to my two areas of study as they relate to human robot collaborations along with several grants and funded research projects associated with both areas.
Robotics Research Areas:
Area 1: Teamwork with Robotics
Area 2: Human Autonomous Vehicle Interaction
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Rouse, Elliott
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Precision machine design, development of robotic prostheses / exoskeletons, estimation of limb and joint mechanical impedance, neural control of locomotion, biomechanics.
Faculty Profile | Neurobionics Lab | Google Scholar |
Sarter, Nadine
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
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
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 | Google Scholar
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
Modeling, analysis and control of mechanical systems, including vehicle and robot control.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Automotive Research Center | Prof. Ulsoy's YouTube Channel | Google Scholar
Vasudevan, Ram
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Affiliate Faculty:
Awtar, Shorya
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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
Bao, Shan
Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor
Connected and Automated Vehicle Technologies, Human Factors, Bid Data, Driver Behavior Modeling, Vulnerable Road Users, and User Interface.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Baveja, Satinder Singh
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
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
Robotic exploration of space with emphasis on design optimization, sensor systems, communication networks, and novel nanosatellite missions.
Faculty Profile | Michigan Exploration Laboratory | Google Scholar
Durfee, Ed
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Co-director, Technology Increasing Knowledge: Technology Optimizing Choice (TIKTOC), U-M Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
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
Associate Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Autonomous vehicles, teleoperation, system dynamics and control, multibody dynamics, energy management, mathematical modeling.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Ghaffari Jadidi, Maani
Assistant Research Scientist, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
My research interests mainly include applied mathematics, robotic perception, machine learning, and planning under uncertainty with applications in robotics and autonomous systems.
Faculty Website | Google Scholar | Mobile Robotics Course
Girard, Anouck
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Griffin, Brent
Assistant Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Active perception, bipedal locomotion, control optimization and signal processing, computer vision.
Faculty Profile | Brent's Website | Google Scholar
Jin, Judy
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
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
Collaborative autonomous robots for construction, inspection, and maintenance of civil infrastructure.
Faculty Profile | Laboratory for Interactive Visualization in Engineering (LIVE) | YouTube Channel | Google Scholar
Lafortune, Stephane
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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.
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Laird, John
John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Autonomous intelligent robots, integration of robotic and cognitive architecture, interactive task learning.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Lasecki, Walter
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Assistant Professor, School of Information
Crowdsourcing, human computation, Human-in-the-Loop Robotics, intelligent systems and scene understanding and annotation.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Lee, Honglak
Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor; Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Artificial intelligence, signal and image processing, robotics and computer vision.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Lee, SangHyun
Associate Professor and John L. Tishman Faculty Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Human Robot Collaboration in Construction, Markerless Motion Capture, Brain Robot Interface
Faculty Profile | Dynamic Project Management | Google Scholar
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 | Google Scholar
Mihalcea, Rada
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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
Magnetometer and integrated sensor development for localization and navigation, with applications for indoor, underground, underwater and other GPS denied environments.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Mower Provost, Emily
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Ojeda, Lauro
Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Oldham, Kenn
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Design, fabrication, dynamics, sensing, and control of microscale systems, including autonomous, millimeter-scale micro-robots.
Faculty Profile | Microdynamics Laboratory: Microsystems | Google Scholar
Orosz, Gabor
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Peng, Huei
Roger L. McCarthy Professor; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; US Director, US-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium
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 | Google Scholar
Reed, Matthew
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute; Research Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Human motion tracking and simulation; grasp modeling; computational modeling of perception, cognition, and motor action; driving monitoring and simulation.
Faculty Profile | Faculty Website | Google Scholar
Robertson, Jennifer
Professor, Anthropology and History of Art (LSA)
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.
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Stein, Jeffrey
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Automotive Research Center
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 | Google Scholar
Umberger, Brian
Professor, Movement Science
Bipedal locomotion, biomechanics, energetics, optimal control, computer modeling and simulation, motion analysis.
Faculty Profile | Google Scholar |
Locomotion Research Laboratory
Weiland, James
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind, Computer Vision for Low-Vision Assistance, Human-Computer Interaction, Visual Electrophysiology, Multi-Sensory Integration.
Faculty Profile | Prof.
Weiland's Website
Yang, Xi Jessie
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering
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 | Google Scholar
Zhang, Zhengya
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Embedded hardware and accelerator design for machine learning and robotics.
Faculty Profile