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James Schmiedeler

Associate Professor

Education: PhD - Ohio State University, 2001

Research Interests: Robotics, human motor coordination, machine design, kinematics, dynamics.

Courses: Introduction to Robotics

Email: schmiedeler.4@nd.edu

Phone: 574.631.6403

Office: 373 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering

Website: www.nd.edu/~jschmie1/

Dr. Schmiedeler conducts his research in the Locomotion And Biomechanics Laboratory in the Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering. Dr. Schmiedeler's research interests fall broadly into the areas of kinematics, dynamics, and machine design, particularly as applied to the development of robotic systems and an understanding of human motor coordination. His current work focuses on biped robot locomotion, human recovery from stroke and spinal-cord-injury, robot-assisted rehabilitation, prosthetic devices, mechanical energy storage for vehicles, and the design of shape-changing mechanisms. His work is roughly balanced between experimental and theoretical activities.

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Selected Publications

  • Persinger, J.A., Schmiedeler, J.P., & Murray, A.P., 2009, "Planar, shape-changing rigid body mechanism synthesis using optimization and search techniques," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 131, pp. 071006:1-7.
  • Yang, T., Westervelt, E.R., Serrani, A., & Schmiedeler, J.P., 2009, "A framework for the control of stable aperiodic walking in underactuated planar bipeds," Autonomous Robots, vol. 27, pp. 277-290.
  • Curran, S., Knox, B.T., Schmiedeler, J.P., & Orin, D.E., 2009, "Design optimization of series-elastic actuators for dynamic robots with articulated legs," ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 011006:1-9.
  • Ambike, S., & Schmiedeler, J.P., 2008, "A methodology for implementing the curvature theory approach to path tracking with planar robots," Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1225-1235.
  • Darling, W.G., Viane, A., Peterson, C.R., & Schmiedeler, J.P., 2008, "Perception of hand motion direction uses a gravitational reference," Experimental Brain Research, vol. 186, no. 2, pp. 237-248.
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