Mario Gomes <mwg@aynjalut.tam.cornell.ed> is an Igert Fellow. He got his Undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell. While an undergraduate he simulated a kneed walker. He then got a Master's degree from Georgia Tech. He has been in the lab as a graduate student since September 1999. He has mostly worked on the mechanics of brachiation. He is also supervising the straight-legged powerred walking project.
Dave Cabrera <dcabrera@tam.cornell.edu> is a second year graduate student. He has been with the lab since July 1999. His undergraduate degree is from Notre Dame. He is working on the energetics of coordinated motion, with a first model case of competitive rowing. He also worked on playground swinging.
Manoj Srinivasan <ms285@cornell.edu> came to Cornell in the fall of 2000. He has been working on the mechanics of throwing since mid-spring 2001.
Michael Coleman <coleman@tam.cornell.edu> received his Ph.D.
in January 1998. He taught drawing in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and
Introduction to Solid Mechanics in T&AM. He is mostly responsible for the
tinkertoy walker and is also interested in topics in intermittent-contact-nonholonomics
as well as physical models of brachiation. His present contact info is: home:
Michael J. Coleman, 236 S. Prospect St., #4, Burlington, VT 05401, (802)-864-9506
Work: Michael J. Coleman , 122F Votey Building, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0156, Ph.: (802)-656-4434, Fax.:
(802)-656-1929, email: mcoleman@emba.uvm.edu.
Mariano
Garcia <garcia@tam.cornell.edu> recently defended his thesis.
He turned in his thesis and graduated in January 1999. He did most of the calculations
and simulations in the 2D walking theory the lab has developed (scalings, zero-slope
walking, chaos in walkers). He did a post-doc year in Full's lab at Berkeley
and now works at Borg Warner in Ithaca.
Anindya Chatterjee
<anindya@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in> is now at The Indian Institute of Science
in Bangalore India. He completed his Ph.D. on collisions in August 1996. He
is responsible for guiding all perturbation analysis done by lab participants
as well as many other aspects of walking theory. His PhD was on constitutive
laws for collisional impact.
Martijn Wisse <m.wisse@wbmt.tudelft.nl>
visited from Delft in the fall of 1998. While visiting, he built the remarkable
2 legged kneed walker that walked many steps on two occasions.
Katja Mombaur <Katja.Mombaur@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> is a graduate student in Heidelberg. She visited for one productive month in March/April of 2000 and worked with Mike Coleman on numerically predicting the stability of the tinkertoy model.
John Camp (john.s.camp@lmco.com) is now at Lockheed-Martin.
He finished up his Master's of Engineering project in August 1997. He is mostly
responsible for the construction of the lab's first kneed walker. He began work
on simulating powered walking.
Larry Gosse <ldg4@cornell.edu> completed his Master's
of Engineering work in August 1998. He now works at MOOG. He designed and half-built
the lab's first (so far unsuccessful) attempt at powered walking.
Yan Yevmenenko <yy29@cornell.edu> was an M-Eng student ('00) working on a powered walker. He worked in the lab through his undergraduate years. He built the labs best 2D kneed walker and helped Larry Gosse build the as-yet unsuccessful powered walker.
Rodney Cook <rlcook75@hotmail.com> worked on initial simulations of a 2-D straight-legged powerred walker in the 99-2000 academic year
In the spring of 2001 these undergraduate students are working in the lab:
Steve Collins is working on a powered, simply controlled, kneed walker
Carmel Majidi and Kate Morrison are working on the mechanics of swinging.
Josh Silbermann and Oren Yeshua are working on the power and control of the straight leg walker previously built, but not made to work by Yan Yevmenenko and Larry Gosse.