Dr.
Tosunoglu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Florida,
Gainesville, in 1986; M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering
from the Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara, Turkey, in 1982 and 1980, respectively.
He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Faculty at Florida International University (FIU) since 1997. He joined FIU in 1994 and served as Assistant Professor between 1994-1996. He is also Director of the Robotics & Automation Laboratory. Prior to this position, he served as Chief Scientist (1992-1994), Program Manager (1989-1992) and Research Associate (1986-1989) in the Robotics Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Research Interests
Dr. Tosunoglu's research interests include robotics and automation systems, teleoperation and telesensation technologies, humanoid robots, mechatronics, modular design, fault-tolerant system design, fault-tolerant controllers, and intelligent machine control.
He has been working in the design, modeling and control of robotic and automation systems targeting industrial applications as well as hazardous environments such as nuclear reactors, waste cleanup, space, battlefields, mines and deep-sea. For several years he worked with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a consortium of four universities including the University of Florida, Gainesville, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Texas at Austin to develop a teleoperated robotic platform for use in nuclear reactors. He also worked in the development of force-reflecting manual controllers, robotic dual actuator design, modeling of systems which contain flexible components and the design of adaptive controllers.
More recently, he focused on modularity and fault-tolerant design of mechanical systems and the development of fault-tolerant, intelligent controllers.
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