Dr. Ueda has been selected as one of the awardees of the 7th Nagamori Award. https://www.nidec.com/en/nagamori-f[LINK]. Jun Ueda Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyCellular actuators inspired by biological muscles and their human assistive applications The 7th Nagamori Award commendation ceremony (including the Award Winners’…
BRHML is excited to start new project and collaboration with support from NSF: National Science Foundation, CMMI, DCSD, A Geometric Approach for Generalized Encrypted Control of Networked Dynamical Systems (#2112793), PI: Ueda, 08/15/2021-08/14/2024 National Science Foundation, ERC-Eng Research Centers, Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Connected Eldercare (#2124319), PI: H.…
If I Had a Hammer: A Simple Tool to Enable Remote Neurological Examinations | Research (gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology professor Jun Ueda and Ph.D. student Waiman Meinhold, along with their collaborators at NITI-ON Co. and Tohoku University in Japan, began to explore how they might contribute. By employing their…
Both Mike Libretto (ME PhD) and Waiman Meinhold (Robotics PhD) successfully defended their PhD theses in Spring 2021. Congratulations!! Michael Libretto: Thesis Title “Stabilization of Mobile Manipulators” Waiman Meinhold: Thesis Title: “Neurological disease diagnosis and treatment via precise robotic intervention”
Super Resolution for Improved Positioning of an MRI-Guided Spinal Cellular Injection Robot Martinez, D. E., Meinhold, W., Oshinski, J., Hu, A. P., & Ueda, J. (2021). Super Resolution for Improved Positioning of an MRI-Guided Spinal Cellular Injection Robot. Journal of Medical Robotics Research This paper presents the development of a…
Qiu, Yingxin, Mengnan Wu, Lena H. Ting, and Jun Ueda. “Maximum Spectral Flatness Control of a Manipulandum for Human Motor System Identification.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6, no. 2 (2021): 3271-3278. This research was supported in part by NSF M3X project. System identification of a dynamic environment using a…
Congratulations, Daniel !! He has been selected for the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. http://me.gatech.edu/20201-NSF-Graduate-Fellows About GRFP: The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and…
Meinhold, W., Yamakawa, Y., Honda, H., Mori, T., Izumi, S. I., & Ueda, J. (2021). A Smart Tendon Hammer System for Remote Neurological Examination. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 28. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.618656/full The deep tendon reflex exam is an important part of neurological assessment of patients consisting of two components,…
The Biorobotics and Human Modeling Lab, under the direction of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Jun Ueda, have developed a patient mounted injection needle robot for use in magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a technology that combines MRI imaging and low-frequency vibrations to create a map (elastogram) that…
Waiman Meinhold Daniel E. Martinez ; John N. Oshinski ; Ai-Ping Hu ; Jun Ueda, A direct drive parallel plane piezoelectric needle positioning robot for MRI guided intraspinal injection Recent developments in the field of cellular therapeutics have indicated the potential of stem cell injections directly to the spinal cord.…
