Students

Pranav Bhounsule
 

Gregg Stiesberg
 

Dave Cabrera came to the lab as a graduate student in July 1999. His undergraduate degree is from Notre Dame. He worked on the energetics of coordinated motion, with a first model case of competitive rowing. He also worked on playground swinging.
 

Manoj Srinivasan came to Cornell in the fall of 2000. He works on the mechanics and energetics of legged locomotion, especially of bipedal walking and running. He has also worked on the mechanics of throwing, and some curious behavior of rolling-sliding disks and cylinders. He left Cornell for Princeton in 2006.
 

Sam Walcott studies muscle behavior. He also works on the mechanics of throwing. He left Cornell for Vermont in 2006
 

Anne Gutmann studies mechanics and energetics of hopping.
 

Andrew Dressel is interested in bicycle stability.
 

Steve Collins received his B.S. in 2002. He was largely responsible for the three-dimensional passive-dynamic walker with two legs and knees. He is also mostly responsible for the Cornell efficient biped. He is currently continuing his work as a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, where he received his M.S. in 2004.
 

Mario Gomes 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 was in the lab as a graduate student since September 1999. He mostly worked on the mechanics of brachiation. He also supervised the straight-legged powered walking project. He graduated in 2004.
 

Michael Coleman received his Ph.D. in January 1998. He taught drawing in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Introduction to Solid Mechanics in T&AM. He was mostly responsible for the Tinkertoy walker. He was also interested in topics in intermittent-contact-nonholonomics, as well as in physical models of brachiation. His present contact info is:
- Home: Michael J. Coleman, 236 S. Prospect St., #4, Burlington, VT 05401, Phone: (802) 864-9506
- Work: Michael J. Coleman, 122F Votey Building, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, Phone: (802) 656-4434, Fax: (802) 656-1929
 

Mariano Garcia turned in his Ph.D. thesis and graduated in January 1999. He did most of the calculations and simulations in the 2D walking theory the lab has developed, viz. scalings, zero-slope walking, and 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 is now at The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He completed his Ph.D. on collisions in August 1996. He was responsible for guiding all perturbation analysis done by lab participants, as well as for many other aspects of walking theory. His Ph.D. was on constitutive laws for rigid body collisions.
 

Martijn Wisse visited from Delft in the fall of 1998. While visiting, he built the remarkable two-legged kneed walker that walked many steps on two occasions.
 

Katja Mombaur was a graduate student in Heidelberg when she visited for one productive month in March/April of 2000. She worked with Mike Coleman on numerically predicting the stability of the Tinkertoy model.
 

John Camp is now at Lockheed-Martin. He finished his Master's of Engineering project in August 1997. He was mostly responsible for the construction of the lab's first kneed walker. He began work on simulating powered walking.
 

Larry Gosse completed his Master's of Engineering work in August 1998. He now works at MOOG. He designed and half-built the lab's first attempt at powered walking.
 

Yan Yevmenenko worked on a powered walker. He worked in the lab through his undergraduate years. He built the lab's best 2D kneed walker and helped Larry Gosse initiate building a powered walker.
 

Rodney Cook worked on initial simulations of a 2D straight-legged powered walker in the 1999-2000 academic year.
 

Carmel Majidi and Kate Morrison worked on the mechanics of swinging.
 

Josh Silbermann and Oren Yeshua worked on the power and control aspects of the straight leg walker, which was previously built, although not made to work by Yan Yevmenenko and Larry Gosse.