Faculty - William R. Hamel
William R. Hamel |
| Teaching ~ Education ~ Research Interests ~ Professional Experience ~ Professional Activities ~ Selected Publications |
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EDUCATION
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RESEARCH INTERESTS (back to top)
Applied research in robotics and remote handling for military, space and nuclear environments. Robot manipulator design and controls. Low level servomechanism modeling, simulation and control. Nonlinear controls and analysis. Industrial automation. Digital real-time control architectures and software. Electromechanical and electrohydraulic systems design and analysis. Automotive controls. Control signal processing. Mechatronics. Simulation and Visualization.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (back to top)
| Present-2005 | Professor and Head, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee. |
| 2005- 1995 | Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee. |
| 1993- 1995 | Associate Professor, Mechancial and Aerospace Engineering Department, The University of Tennessee. |
| 1972 - 1993 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Robotics and Process Systems Division, Instrumentation & Controls Division; R&D in measurements and controls, robotics and remote handling in hazardous environments. Project and line management. |
| 1971-1972 | Union Carbide Corporation - South Charleston Technical Center; advanced process control sytems. |
| 1969-1971 | TRW Systems - Houston Operations; Preflight and postflight analysis of the Lunar Module guidance and control sotfware. Apollo missions 8 through 13. |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (back to top)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Nuclear Society
- US Army science Board (1988-1995)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Robotics and Automation Society; Treasurer of the Management Committee, Associate Editor Dynamic Systems and Control Division
- IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Robotics and Remote Systems Division, Executive Board
- Control Systems Society Vice President for Member Activities, Dynamic Systems and Control Division
- IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Robotics & Remote Systems Division, Executive Board
- Control Systems Society Vice President for Member Activities
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (back to top)
Hamel, W. R. and Widner, T. C, "Transmission-Based Servo-actuators: A Concept for Improving Robot Manipulator Performance," submitted to 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Hamel, W. R. and Haley, D. C., "Advanced Robotics for Decontamination and Dismantlement," Fifth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, ISRAM '94, Maui, Hawaii, August 14-17, 1994.
Herdon, J. N., Hamel, W. R., and Meintel, A. J., "Robotic Systems for NASA Ground-Based Research," ROBOTICS, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 19-25, March 1988.
Jorgenson, C., Hamel, W. R., and Weisbin, C. R., "Exploring Autonomous Robot Navigation," BYTE, pp.223-235, January, 1986.
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