Brent Gillespie

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Unversity of Michigan. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Unversity of California, Davis (1986); M.M. San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1989); M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (1993); Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (1996). Areas of Interest: Haptic interface to remote and virtual environments, force-reflecting interface for automobile and aircraft control, identification and control of discontinuous systems, and computational mutibody dynamics. Also involved in the design and analysis of cobots (robots that collaborate with humans). Publications appear in such journals as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Society memberships include ASME and IEEE.