Reza Fotouhi BSc, MSc, PhD, PEng

• ME352.3 - Engineering Analysis III (Control)
• ME493.3 - Advanced Mechanical Design
• ME495.6 - Industrial Design Project
• ME497.3 - Acoustics and Vibrations in Design
• ME854.3 - Mechanical Vibrations
• ME897.3 - Mechanics and control of robots
• ME898.3 - Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Mechanisms

• Applied Mechanics and Machine Design
• Control Systems, Robotics and Fluid Power
• Engineering for Agriculture

Positions are currently available in the following research topics:

• Development of a mobile manipulator for industrial/mining applications
  (MSc in computer science and expertise with ROS is an asset)
  
  
• Dynamics, control, and path planning of mobile manipulators

Education and Experience

BSc, MSc (Iran), MSc, PhD (Saskatchewan), PEng

Specialization: Robotics (dynamics & control), Structural Dynamics and Vibrations, Computational Mechanics (Finite Element & Optimization), Biomechanics

Current and Past Projects

• Dynamics and control of mobile manipulators
• Navigation and control of agricultural autonomous mobile robot
• NDVI measurement for crops using active sensor and multispectral camera
• Development of a mobile platform for field-based high-throughput wheat phenotyping
• Software for mobile ground based high-throughput phenotyping platforms
• Lightweight long-reach 5-dof robot arm for farm application
• Vibration analysis of a 5-dof long-reach robotic arm
• Vibration control of a cantilever beam using reduced model
• Particle Swarm Optimization / PID-Computed Torque Control for a Manipulator
• Development and assessment of a telerobotic ultrasound system for musculoskeletal imaging
• Effects of delay in musculoskeletal imaging for a teleultrasound robot
• Design and control of a rehab robot
• Static and vibration analyses of a composite CFRP robot manipulator
• Simplified approach for parameter selection and analysis of carbon and glass fiber reinforced composite beams
• Path planning of a robot manipulator
• Novel design of a precision planter for a robotic assistant farmer
• Kinematics and path planning of a six degree of freedom robot manipulator
• Dynamics and vibration control of flexible (links & joints) robot manipulators
• Experimental study of a trajectory planning algorithm of a wheeled mobile robot
• Fatigue strength of hollow section square-tube (HSS) T-joints
• Large vibration analysis of very flexible beams using finite element method
• Parameter Identification and Trajectory Following of a Two-Link Rigid Manipulator
• Trajectory Planning and Speed Control for a Two-Link Rigid Manipulator
• Time-optimal control of two-link manipulators