Associate Chair for Research
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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MSU Foundation Professor and Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair
Mechanical Engineering
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MSU Foundation Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of Maryland 2002
- M.E., Tsinghua University, Beijing 1998
- B.E., Tsinghua University, Beijing 1995
Research Interests
- Electroactive Polymer Sensors and Actuators
- Biomimetic Robotic Fish
- Mobile Sensing in Aquatic Environments
- Control of Autonomous Robotic Swarms
- Modeling and Control of Hysteresis
- Embedded Control Systems
Selected Publications
- T. Pinto, L. Cai, C. Wang, and X. Tan, "CNT-based sensor arrays for local strain measurements in soft pneumatic bending actuators," International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 157-166, 2017
- S. B. Behbahani and X. Tan, "Design and modeling of flexible passive rowing joints for robotic fish pectoral fins," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1119-1132, 2016
- J. Zhang, D. Torres, J. Ebel, N. Sepulveda, and X. Tan, "A composite hysteresis model in self-sensing feedback control of fully integrated VO2 microactuators," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 2405-2417, 2016
- F. Zhang, O. Ennasr, E. Litchman, and X. Tan, "Autonomous sampling of water columns using gliding robotic fish: Algorithms and harmful-algae-sampling experiments," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1271-1281, 2016
- H. Lei, M. A. Sharif, and X. Tan, "Dynamics of omnidirectional IPMC sensor: Experimental characterization and physical modeling," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 601-612, 2016
MSU Scholar
Google Scholar
Awards
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- NSF CAREER Award
- MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
- ASME DSCD Best Mechatronics Paper Award
