October 8, 2008
Dinesh Rabindran, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, received an honorable mention for the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Robotics and Automation Society Fellowship. The fellowship supports a student who will significantly impact the future in robotics and/or automation and increase gender diversity in this field. Rabindran's research investigates a dual input parallel actuator using a differential drive to make robot manipulators mechanically safe around humans. This approach might find application in areas where robots physically interact with humans, such as rehabilitation robots. Rabindran has been an active mentor of Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering initiative for the past 4 years.
Rabindran is completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Delbert Tesar, professor of mechanical engineering who holds the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering and directs the Robotics Research Group.
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