Research Interests
- Theoretical Kinematics
- Mechanism and Machine Theory
- Geometric Modelling and Computer Simulation
- Abstract Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
- Robot Mechanical Systems
- Automated Optical Robot Calibration Systems
- Medical Devices
Research
- Kinematics of systems of rigid bodies on Study’s quadric, S26.
- Absolute kinematic calibration of robot mechanical systems using contactless relative measurements.
- Gröbner basis, ideal, and variety applications to deriving the algebraic input-output equations of planar, spherical, and spatial mechanisms.
- Overconstrained spatial closed simple kinematic chains.
- Kinematics, dynamics, and control of the Atlas Motion Platform vehicle simulator.
- Intelligent vision systems to enable robots to operate autonomously for both biomedical and manufacturing applications.
Activities
- Past Treasurer of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)
- Carleton University Faculty Advisor, CSME
- Past Chair, Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM)