Recent work

  • Congratulations: Chembian Parthiban has successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation February 8th, 2019: Please join me in congratulating Chembian on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation: “Stability, Performance and Control of High Power, High Performance Kinesthetic Haptic Interface “.  A hearty thanks to Chembian for all his hard work!
  • Milestone: Mechanical Design Review Completed! The Hybrid Actuation Project has completed its final mechanical design review for the one degree of freedom testbed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38cvl2kv4A&feature=youtu.be
  • 2nd Midwest Robotics Workshop During 5/18/17 to 5/19/17 Prof. Zinn, Chembian Parthiban, Guru Subramani, and Bolun Zhang, together with Prof. Gleicher‘s group, went to the 2nd Midwest Robotics Workshop at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC). This workshop gathered researchers in the field of robotics from Midwest area, including UW-Madison, TTIC, University of Michigan, UIUC, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, and Northwestern University. Prof. ...
  • Haptics Symposium 2014 Recap In October 2013 we submitted a paper on A Simplified Approach to Admittance-type Haptic Device Impedance Evaluation for the IEEE Haptics Symposium to be held in March 2013. To address the challenges in evaluating the transparency, or output impedance more generally, of admittance-type haptic devices due to their inherently non-back-drivable mechanical characteristics, we have described ...
  • Hapctics Symposium Workshop 2012 Recap Mike gave a presentation on Admittance-based Haptic Interface Performance Evaluation and Associated Challenges in a Worshop on Hardware Evaluation Practices held at the IEEE Haptics Symposium in March 2012 at Vancouver, Canada.  The presentation gives an overview of the differences between the impedance based and the admittance based haptic devices and the challenges associated in the evaluating ...
  • Haptics Symposium 2012 Recap In recent years, the use of haptics within the MRI environment has increased, particularly for fMRI procedures. However, the demanding MRI environment has made the development of high performance devices very difficult, as most common actuation approaches are not well suited to the high-strength magnetic fields present in the MR-bore. We presented a poster at the ...