Ueda receives the 7th Nagamori Award

Dr. Ueda has been selected as one of the awardees of the 7th Nagamori Award. Jun Ueda’s Actuator Research Garners Nagamori Foundation Recognition | Research Horizons | Georgia Tech’s Research News (gatech.edu) 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…
New NSF Awards
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.…
A Simple Tool to Enable Remote Neurological Examinations

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…
Mike Libretto and Waiman Meinhold successfully defended
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”
Daniel’s paper published in JMRR
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…
Paper on band-limited spectrum flatness control has been published in RA-L
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…
Daniel Martinez receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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…
Paper on IOT smart tendon hammer has been published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

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,…
Robotically Precise Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Degenerative Disc Disorder

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…