Research Areas
Additive/Hybrid Manufacturing
• Manufacturing process development
• Artificial Intelligence (detailed info)
• Machine learning
Composites
• Hub for NSF Composites and Hybrid Material Interfacing (CHMI) Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) CHMI
• Design, modeling and analysis for CHMI
• Materials and process engineering for CHMI
• Testing and non-destructive evaluation
• Secure digital technologies for CHMI
Digital Manufacturing/Industry 4.0
• Factory architectures
• Machine communication
• Cloud computing
• Cybersecurity
• Edge devices
• IoTFM annual symposium iotfm-and-digital-transformation
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Overall equipment effectiveness
• Predictive maintenance
Industrial Robotics
• Manufacturing domain knowledge
• Modeling and simulation
• Vibration suppression
• Real-time sensing and control
• Process-dependent path planning
• ROS-based programming and task planning
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