Director
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Director, Automotive Research Center
Editor in Chief, ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tel: (734) 647-6391
Fax: (734) 647-9379
E-mail: epureanu@umich.edu
Ph.D. Students
Haochen Wu
Contact Info:
Email- haochenw@umich.edu
Personal Website - Haochen Wu LinkedIn Google Scholar
Research Areas:
My research focuses on developing AI framework for human-autonomy teams to learn dynamic task allocation to maximize the performance in complex operations. The solution approach includes Bayesian belief update and deep reinforcement learning techniques for decentralized multi-agent systems, with the consideration of human characteristics, load management, and adaptivity.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Human-Autonomy Teaming
Ted Sender
Contact Info:
Email- tsender@umich.edu
Research Areas:
My research focuses on the development of algorithms to efficiently identify weaknesses in off-road autonomy solutions in simulated environments.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Autonomy verification, validation, and testing
Jesús García Pérez
Contact Info:
Email- jesusgp@umich.edu
LinkedIn Google Scholar Research Gate
Research Areas:
I am a Ph.D. candidate of a co-advised project between ISAE-Supaéro and the University of Michigan. My research focuses on the control of nonlinear dynamics of aeroelastic systems. In particular, my project is about the control of unstable behavior of aircraft wings and involves both experimental analysis and computational investigations.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan, ISAE-Supaéro
Keywords:
Nonlinear dynamics, Bifurcation forecasting, Aeroelasticity, Nonlinear Energy Sinks
Mihai Cimpuieru
Contact Info:
Email- mcimpi@umich.edu
LinkedIn Google Scholar Research Gate
Research Areas:
Mihai Cimpuieru performs research in structural dynamics with a focus on turbomachinery. Currently, he is working on physics- informed neural network techniques to predict blade vibration responses in blisks. He has worked on mistuning ID methods for turbomachinery blisks, on the development of a friction-enhanced tuned ring damper for as-manufactured blisks, and on computationally modeling impacts for tuned vibration absorber applications. He obtained his Mechanical Engineering degree with a certificate in Aerospace Engineering from Duke University
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Turbomachinery, Nonlinear dynamics, Machine Learning
Congkai Shen
Contact Info:
Email- cosh@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Plan and control vehicles to traverse the 3D terrain with maximum mobility neural networks for acoustic/ultrasonic sensing.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Motion planning, control, vehicle dynamics
James Baxter
Contact Info:
Email- jrbaxter@umich.edu
Research Areas:
James's research areas are estimation, planning, and control for autonomous mobile robotics, and he is specifically focused on developing methods for off-road autonomous vehicles to learn from failure and adapt to new information as they traverse harsh terrain not fully known beforehand.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Autonomy, planning, estimation, learning, controls, probabilistic methods, off-road autonomous vehicles
Eugene Kochergin
Contact Info:
Email- eugenk@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Dynamics and controls. Trajectory planning for off-road autonomous vehicles.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Koopman, Control, Nonlinear Dynamics, Path Planning
Rabia Konuk
Contact Info:
Email- rkonuk@umich.edu
Research Areas:
- Autonomous vehicles
- Human-autonomy interactions
- Mathematical modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Autonomy, Mathematical modeling, Dynamics
Anirudh Kanchi
Contact Info:
Email- akanchi@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Co-Design of Vehicles and Multi-Agent Autonomy Behaviour.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Autonomy, Co-Design Vehicles
Max Nyffenegger
Contact Info:
Email- maxny@umich.edu
Research Areas:
My research is at the intersection of electrochemical and mechanical dynamics. We are looking into lithium-ion battery interactions with mechanical vibrations. The goal is to demonstrate improved battery charging technology.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Ultrasound, Lithium-ion battery, Battery performance
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Undergraduate Students
Drew Hoelscher
Contact Info:
Email- ahoelsch@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Working on behalf of both the Army's Ground Vehicle Systems Center and the University of Michigan's Automotive Research Center, I am comparing the dynamics models available in Unreal Engine and SimCreator for the purpose of vehicle simulations. Establishing the capabilities of these dynamics models relative to one another will allow for a better understanding of vehicle simulations using the different software.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
External Dynamics Models
Igor Khalip
Contact Info:
Email- ikhalip@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Alexander D. Kripfgans
Contact Info:
Email- kripfgan@umich.edu
Research Areas: Modeling nonlinear contacts using computational and experimental data; computational analysis of tuned vibration absorbers with impact and friction contacts
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords: Turbomachinery, Nonlinear Dynamics, Structural Dynamics
Research Fellows
Himanshu Saxena
Contact Info:
Email- hsaxena@umich.edu
Research Areas:
Research interests include the research and development of vibration device technology for patient rehabilitation and investigating the influence of neck muscles on head acceleration during sport-associated impact events in high school athletes.
Affiliations:
University of Michigan
Keywords:
Early mobilization, exoskeleton, muscle atrophy, post intensive care syndrome, rehabilitation, concussion, whole body vibration