{"id":17,"date":"2022-01-10T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:32:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 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Hayes\n            <\/span>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n        <\/div>\n        \n                                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, McGill University and the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), 1999, Supervisors: Manfred L. Husty; William O.J. Moser; Paul J. Zsombor-Murray<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.Eng., Mechanical, McGill University, 1996, Supervisors: Paul J. Zsombor-Murray; Manfred L. Husty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.Eng., Mechanical, Specialisation in Automation, McGill University, 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.F.A., Early Music Performance Studies, Concordia University, 1986<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Theoretical Kinematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computational Kinematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mechanism and Machine Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Geometric Modelling and Computer Simulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abstract Algebra and Algebraic Geometry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robot Mechanical Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automated Optical Robot Calibration Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medical Devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kinematics of systems of rigid bodies on Study&#8217;s quadric, <em>S<\/em><sup>2<\/sup><sub style=\"position: relative; left: -.6em;\">6<\/sub>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gr\u00f6bner basis, ideal, and variety applications to deriving the algebraic input-output equations of planar, spherical, and spatial mechanisms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over-constrained spatial closed simple kinematic chains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kinematics, kinetics, and control of the Atlas Motion Platform vehicle simulator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Absolute kinematic calibration of robot mechanical systems using contactless relative measurements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intelligent vision systems to enable robots to operate autonomously for both biomedical and manufacturing applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Past Chair, Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Past Treasurer of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carleton University Faculty Advisor, CSME<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Research Interests Research Activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/johnhayes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}