Dawn Tilbury
Professor, Robotics
Ronald D. and Regina C. McNeil Department Chair, Robotics
Herrick Professor of Engineering
Email tilbury@umich.edu
Office 2200 FMCRB
Research Interests Control of manufacturing systems, teleoperation of small ground robots, shared control of robots between humans and autonomy, human-robot interaction.
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Honors and awards
2024
National Academy of Engineering Member — NAE
2022
Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award — International Symposium on Flexible Automation
2022
J. Cordell Breed Award for Women Leaders — Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
2021
Nyquist Lecture — ASME-DSCD
2021
Sarah Goddard Power Award — University of Michigan
2020
SAE Vincent Bendix Award — SAE
2020
Leadership in Engineering Award — Washington Academy of Sciences
2020
Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award — Automotive Research Center
2011
Best Application Paper Award — IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
2009
Best Conference Paper Award — IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)