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Blake Hannaford
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Blake Hannaford Professor Director, Biorobotics Laboratory M434 EE/CSE Box 352500 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 |
| Phone: (206) 543-2197 E-mail: hannaford@ee.washington.edu |
University of California, Berkeley 1985 Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley 1982 M.S.
Yale University 1977 B.S.
Biosketch
Blake Hannaford received the B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University in 1977, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. Before graduate study, he held engineering positions in digital hardware and software design, office automation, and medical image processing. At Berkeley he pursued thesis research in multiple target tracking in medical images and the control of time-optimal voluntary human movement. From 1986 to 1989 he worked on the remote control of robot manipulators in the Man-Machine Systems Group in the Automated Systems Section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech. He supervised that group from 1988 to 1989. Since September 1989, he has been at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering since 1993. He was awarded the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Early Career Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. His currently active interests include haptic displays on the internet, surgical biomechanics, and biologically based design of robot manipulators. He is the founding editor of Haptics-e, The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research (www.haptics-e.org).
Honors
"Early Career Achievement Award": IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, November 1991
NASA Group Achievement Award, May 1991
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 9/90-9/95
Research Interests
Biorobotics, divided into two primary thrusts: haptic interfaces, and biologically inspired robots. Haptic interfaces apply robotic techniques to develop better ways to interface humans and computers. Biological movement systems have many properties which exceed those of mechanical robots. By building robotic replicas of biological systems there is a hope to engineer better robots as well as learn more about biology. Applications of this technology include remote vehicles and prosthetic limbs.
Biorobotics Lab: http://brl.ee.washington.edu/
Selected Publications
F. Boe, B. Hannaford, 'On-line Improvement of Speed and Tracking Performance on Repetetive Paths,' IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 6, pp. 350-358, May 1998.
P. Buttolo, R. Oboe, B. Hannaford, 'Architectures for Shared Haptic Virtual Environments,' Computers and Graphics, vol. 21, pp. 421-9, July-Aug 1997.
R. J. Adams, B. Hannaford, 'Stable Haptic Interaction with Virtual Environments,' In Press: IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, January 1999.
M. MacFarlane, J. Rosen, B. Hannaford, C. Pellegrini, M. Sinanan, 'Force Feedback Grasper Helps Restore the Sense of Touch in Minimally Invasive Surgery.,' Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, vol. 3, pp. 278-285, 1999.
J. Rosen, B. Hannaford, M. MacFarlane, M. Sinanan, 'Force Controlled and Teleoperated Endoscopic Grasper for Minimally Invasive Surgery - Experimental Performance Evaluation,' In Press: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan 1999.
More Publications: http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/BRL/reports/
Recent Conference Papers
T. Maneewarn, B. Hannaford, D. Storti, M. Ganter, "Haptic Rendering For Internal Content of An Implicit Object," ASME Winter Annual Meeting Haptics Symposium, Nashville, TN, Nov 1999.
R. Adams, M. Moreyra, B. Hannaford, "Excalibur, A Three-Axis Force Display," ASME Winter Annual Meeting Haptics Symposium, Nashville, TN, Nov 1999.
M. Moreyra, B. Hannaford, "A Practical Measure of Dynamic Response of Haptic Devices," Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leaven, Belgium, May 1998.
G. Klute, B. Hannaford, "Prediction and Measurement of Fatigue Life of McKibben Actuators," IROS 98, Victoria, B.C., Canada, November 1998.
R. Adams, M. Moreyra, B. Hannaford, "Stability And Performance of Haptic Displays: Theory and Experiments," Proceedings of the ASME WAM, Haptics Workshop, Nov 1998.
Patents
B. Hannaford, 'Method and Apparatus for Multiplexing Switch Signals,' US Patent No. 4,884,070, Nov. 28 1989.
B. Hannaford, M.R. Moreyra, P.H. Marbot, 'Five axis direct-drive mini-robot having fifth actuator located at a non-adjacent joint ,' U.S. Patent #5,528,955, June 25, 1996 (issued).
R. Seubert, M.V. Olson, D. Meldrum, B. Hannaford, P. Wiktor, N.A. Friedman, D.B. Snow, R. Kraft, 'Precision small volume fluid processing apparatus,' U.S. Patent #5,785,926, July 28, 1998.
P. Buttolo, B. Hannaford, 'Direct Drive Manipuator for pen-based force display,' U.S. Patent #5,642,469, June 24, 1997 (issued).
"Flat Coil Actuator having Coil Embedded in Linkage", Steven Venema and Blake Hannaford.
Active Grants
Ford Research Labs (gift), "Haptic Interfaces for Body Panel Shape Perception", 1/97-12/99
VA Rehab Engineering Center, "Technologies for Powered Above-Knee Prostheses," 10/97-9/01
Washington Technology Center, "Intelligent Control of Cooking Appliances" (with J. Vagners, PI), 7/97-6/99
National Science Foundation, "Computing Appliances, A Context for Integrating Research and Education," (with Gaetano Borriello, PI), 10/98-9/01
Recent Graduate Students
G. Klute (Bioengineering), Anthroform Arm, 9/99
T. Maneewarn, Force Feedback of Kinematic Information in Teleoperational and Remote Control, 12/99
R. Lueshke, Power Conversion for Flywheel Energy Storage, 12/99
K. Jaax (Bioengineering), Modeling of Neural Stimulation Treatment Protocols for Spasticity using the Anthroform Arm System, 6/00
R. Adams, Optimal Design of Coupling Networks for Haptic Simulations, 9/99
J. Brown (Bioengineering), Biomechanics of surgery 6/03
Editorships
Haptics-e, The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research.
