I am a research associate in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. Currently I am working in Robotics, Automation, Manipulation and Sensing (RAMS) Laboratory, advised by Professor Jaydev P. Desai.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Submitted in Jan. 2009)
- B.Eng., School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2005)
RESEARCH
- Current
- Previous
- Design & Control of Piezoelectric-Driven Handheld Manipulator for Active Disturbance Compensation in Microsurgery
- Design & Development of a Novel Balancer with variable difficulty for Training and Evaluation
SELECTED PUBLICATION
- Book Chapter
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, "Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Actuators for Active Physiological Tremor Compensation," Human Robot Interaction, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, pp. 369-394, 2007.
- Refereed Journal
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, F. Widjaja, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, "Tracking Control of Hysteretic Piezoelectric Actuator using Adaptive Rate-Dependent Controller," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 116-123, 2009.
- W. T. Ang, U-X. Tan, H. G. Tan, T. Myo, C. K. Ng, K. L. Koh, and B. S. Cheam, "Design & Development of a Novel Balancer with variable difficulty for Training and Evaluation", Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 325-331, 2008.
- U-X. Tan, K. C. Veluvolu, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, "Estimating Displacement of Periodic Motion with Inertial Sensors," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1385-1388, Aug., 2008.
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, "Feedforward Controller of Ill-Conditioned Hysteresis using Singularity Free Prandtl-Ishlinskii," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2009 (accepted).
- Refereed Conference
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, and W. T. Ang, "Design and Development of a Low-cost Flexure-based Handheld Mechanism for Micromanipulation," IEEE Intl. Conf. on robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 2009 (accepted).