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Michael Vande Weghe
Technical Staff, ICES

Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, and CFR

Email address: vandeweg@cmu.edu
Phone: 412-268-6846

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
5000 Forbes Ave
Hamburg Hall 2207
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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actuators, humanoid robotics, mechanisms, mechatronics, and microrobotics

• Neurobotics Laboratory - Investigating neural control of movement, brain-machine interface, and devices for rehabilitation, motor enhancement, and entertainment.

• Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) Hand - We are building a dynamic model of the human hand that is anatomically correct.
• Millibots - Heterogeneous group of small autonomous robots with modular payloads and sensing platforms
• Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Pearl will help researchers explore the ways autonomous mobile robots can help the elderly live independently in their own homes.
• Portable Wearable Movement Tracking System - We are developing a completely portable and wearable sensor system that accurately tracks and records human limb movements.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Randomized Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators without Inverse Kinematics
  M. Vande Weghe, D. Ferguson, and S. Srinivasa
  IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, November, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [7324 KB] copyrighted

• Demonstration of a Large Dissipative Haptic Environment
  M. Vande Weghe, B. Dellon, S. Kelly, R. Juchniewicz, and Y. Matsuoka
  IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual and Teleoperator Systems, 2006.
  Download: pdf [223 KB] copyrighted

• The ACT Hand: Design of the Skeletal Structure
  M. Vande Weghe, M. Rogers, M. Weissert, and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), May, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [775 KB] copyrighted

• An Extensor Mechanism for an Anatomical Robotic Hand
  D.D. Wilkinson, M. Vande Weghe, and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), Vol. 1, May, 2003, pp. 238 - 243. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [359 KB] copyrighted

• Millibot trains for enhanced mobility
  H. Brown, M. Vande Weghe, C. Bererton, and P. Khosla
  IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 7, No. 4, December, 2002, pp. 452 - 461.
  Download: pdf [1135 KB] copyrighted

• An Architecture for Gesture Based Control of Mobile Robots
  S. Iba, M. Vande Weghe, C. Paredis, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'99), Vol. 2, October, 1999, pp. 851 - 857. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [365 KB] copyrighted