My new appointment

Dear all,

I have just been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Middle East Technical University on its
Northern Cyprus Campus.

I work in Mechanical Engineering my original domain.
I will teach Manufaturing Processes, Theory of Machines
I will work on research issues related to
1- Applied robotics for nuclear service
2- High speed robotics with parallel manipulators
3- Autonomous heat pumps
4- Climbing mobile vehicles

I will design a series of high speed linear axes using the pantograph principles and applying the flexible motors, invented by professor Lauria of Sherbrooke University.
http://www.usherbrooke.ca/gelecinfo/personnel/profs/lauria-fr.html

Lauria, M., Michaud, F., Legault, M.-A., Létourneau, D., Rétornaz, P., Nadeau, I., Lepage, P., Morin, Y., Gagnon, F., Giguère, P., Frémy, J., Clavien, L. (2008), “Elastic locomotion of a four steered mobile robot,” video presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Lauria, M., Fauteux, Ph., Legault, M.-A., Lavoie, M.-A., Michaud, F. (2008) “Differential elastic actuator for robotic interaction tasks,” in Proceedings of Actuator 2008, 11th International Conference on New Actuators, Bremen, Germany.

Feel free to communicate with me if you want to ask any question or even to collaborate with me.

Bests,

Dr. Luc Rolland
Middle East Technical University
Northern Cyprus Campus
Kalkanli, Guzelyurt
KKTC via Mersin 10, Turkey
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Visiting Assistant Professor / Professeur Assistant Invité
Mechanical Engineering / Génie Mécanique / Makine Mühendisliği

Telephone: +90 392 661 2928
Fax: +90 392 661 2949

Page web / web page : http://www.robots-renoir.org
Blogue / Blog : http://renoir.over-blog.com/
Skype : laurentien3
Courriel/E-mail : luc.rolland@gmail.com