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Position
Education
Areas of Interest
Current Projects
Background
Selected Publications
Contact Information
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 Position
Education
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1982
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1985
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1989
Areas of Interest
- Precision engineering
- Robotics
- Intelligent vehicle control
Current Projects
Background
Dr. Ro joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in January
1989 as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Department. He became an Associate Professor in July 1994. Dr. Ro has
developed two graduate courses in the department (Multivariable Control
and Robotics) and has taught undergraduate Automatic Control and Dynamics
courses.
His research covers a wide range of controls and various applications
of control theories in the following three areas: Precision Engineering,
Robotics and Intelligent Vehicle Control. In precision engineering, Dr.
Ro's research concentrates on the characterization and control of microdynamic
behaviors of precision slide systems (ball-screw, traction drive, piezo-electric
drive, electrostatic drives and magnetic servo levitated drive) to enhance
their nano-motion capabilities, development of advanced control schemes
and experimental verifications to improve diamond turning process using
force and position sensory feedbacks, design of a long-range fast tool
servo system using magnetic servo levitated actuators, and active control
of precision slide vibration using piezo-electric drives. In robotics,
some of the on-going projects include design and implementation of free-floating
non-holonomic space robot and a planar passive-joint robot for fuel consumption
minimization, neural-fuzzy hybrid scheme for mobile robot path planning,
and two-arm coordinated motion control for fixtureless assembly. In intelligent
vehicle control, on-going projects include nonlinear tire model identification
by Artificial Neural Network, hybrid neural-sliding mode control of 4
Wheel steering for robust handling, semi-active suspension control using
energy based Fuzzy Logic scheme, and others.
Selected Publications
Contact Information
| Phone |
(919) 515-3096 |
| Fax |
(919) 515-3964 |
| E-mail |
ro@eos.ncsu.edu |
| Office location |
Room 113, Research Bldg #1 and Room 3229 Broughton Hall |
| Office hours |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., M-F |
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