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P.H. Marbot, 'Mini Direct Drive Robot for Biomedical Applications,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, August, 1991


C.P. Chou, 'Dual Stable Point Model of Muscle Activation and Deactivation,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, Nov, 1991.


W.C. Wang, 'A New Optical Microsensor for Mechanical Detection Using Scattering of a Micro-Pipette,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, May, 1992.


C.A. Lawn, 'Design and Construction of a Single-Axis Master-Slave Teleoperation System and The Performance Evaluation of Control Algorithms and Passive Communication Laws with Time Delay,' MSME Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, August, 1992.


P. Braathen, 'Design and Evaluation of Nonlinear Sliding Mode Control for Manipulators in a Bilateral Teleoperation System,' MSEE Thesis, Norwegian Institute of Technology / University of Washington, Feb. 1993.


M. Shoemaker, 'A Study and Model of the Role of the Renshaw Cell in Regulating the Transient Firing Rate of the Motoneuron,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1993.


P. Bhatti, 'The SCVMS: A Single Chip Velocity Measurement System for Optical Shaft Encoders,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, August 1993.


D.S. Smith, 'Kinematic Do-Ability for Manipulator Analysis,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, January 1994.


M.R. Moreyra, 'Design of a Five Degree of Freedom Direct Drive Mini-Robot Using Disk Drive Actuators,' MSME Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, June 1994.


S.C. Venema, 'A Kalman Filter Calibration Method for Analog Quadrature Position Encoders,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1994.


F. Boe, 'An Iterative Trajectory Shaping Algorithm based on Run-Time Results,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1994.


D. Kung, 'Hidden Markov Model with Explicit Duration and its Application to Robotic Task Segmentation,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1994.

P.H. Marbot, 'Ia Response of a Mechanical Spindle Replica,' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, March 1995.


N.E. Greivell, 'The Design of a Ferrofluid Magnetic Pipette,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1995.


D.Y. Hwang, 'Teleoperation Performance with a Kinematically Redundant Slave Robot,' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, December 1995


P. Buttolo, 'Characterization of Human Pen Grasp with Haptic Displays,' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1996.


C.P. Chou, 'Study of Human Motion Control with a Physiologically Based Robotic Arm and Spinal Level Neural Controller,' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1996.


H. Takenaka, 'Hidden Markov Model Approach to Skill Analysis in Violin Bowing,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, December, 1995.


M. Moreyra, 'Design of a Planar High Bandwidth Force Display with Force Sensing,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, August, 1996.


J.M. Trujillo, 'Enhancing the Sense of Touch in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Design of the Force Reflective Endoscopic Grasper,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, June, 1997.


S.C. Venema, 'Experiments in Surface Perception Using a Haptic Display,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, April, 1999.


R. J. Adams, 'Stable Haptic Interaction with Virtual Environments,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, September, 1999.


T. Maneewarn, 'Haptic Feedback of Manipulator Kinematic Conditioning for Teleoperation,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, September, 1999.


K.N. Jaax, 'A Robotic Muscle Spindle: Neuromechanics of Individual and Ensemble Response,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, June 2001.


J. Dosher, 'Detection Thresholds and Performance Gains for Small Haptic Effects,' MSEE Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, December 2002.


J.D. Brown, 'In-Vivo and Postmortem Biomechanics of Abdominal Organs Under Compressive Loads: Experimental Approach in a Laparoscopic Surgery Setup,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Biongineering, August 2003.


G. Lee, 'Low Power Haptic Devices: Ramifications on Perception and Device Design,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, December 2003.


J. Lester, 'Human Activity Inference From Multi-Modal Sensors,' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, May 2004.


A. Aminpour, MSEE, University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, April 2004.


Post - Doc

Dan Ferris Ph.D.

Yoon Sang Kim, Ph.D.

Jee Hwan Ryu, Ph.D.


Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery Fellows

Dmitry Oleynikov, MD, Fellow 2000-01

Massimiliano Solazzo, MD, Fellow 1999-00

Christina Richards, MD, Fellow 1998-99

Mark MacFarlane, MD, Fellow 1997-98




   

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