Xiaobo Tan
Associate Chair for Research
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), College of Engineering
MSU Foundation Professor and Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair - Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the College of Engineering
MSU Foundation Professor - Mechanical Engineering (ME) in the College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3228
Biography
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.
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland 2002
M.E., Tsinghua University, Beijing 1998
B.E., Tsinghua University, Beijing 1995
Awards
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
NSF CAREER Award
MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
ASME DSCD Best Mechatronics Paper Award
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
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