Ian Walker

EECS

Department Head | Professor

Contact Information

(307) 766-2282iwalker2@uwyo.edu

EN 5068B

Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science

Office Hours: Schedule by Email

Ian Walker

Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1989
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1985
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Hull, UK, 1983.

 

Area of expertise

Robotics: manipulators and manipulation, kinematics, dynamics, and control, continuum "tongue, trunk, and tentacle" robots, soft robotics.

 

Selected publications

  1.  D. Trivedi, C.D. Rahn, W.M. Kier, and I.D. Walker. Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research. Advanced Bionics and Biomechanics, Vol. 5, No. 2, September 2008, pp. 99-117.
  2. K.J. Niklas and I.D. Walker. The Challenges of Inferring Organic Function from and its Emulation in Biomechanics and Biomimetics. Biomimetics, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2021, pp. 1-12.
  3. I.A. Gravagne and I.D. Walker. Manipulability, Force, and Compliance Analysis for Planar Continuum Manipulators. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 263-273.
  4. M.A. Hannan and I.D. Walker. Kinematics and the Implementation of an Elephant's Trunk Manipulator and Other Continuum Style Robots. Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, February 2003, pp. 45-63.
  5. B. Jones and I.D. Walker. Kinematics for Multi-Section Continuum Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 45-53.
  6. M.B. Wooten, C.G. Frazelle, I.D. Walker, A.D. Kapadia, and J.H. Lee. Exploration and Inspection with Vine-Inspired Continuum Robots. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, May 2018, pp. 5526-5523.
  7. M.B. Wooten and I.D. Walker. Environmental Interaction with Continuum Robots Exploiting Impact. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 4, October 2022, pp. 10136-10143.
  8. A. Carambia, C.G. Frazelle, A.D. Kapadia, and I.D. Walker, “Non-Cooperative Space Object Capture and Manipulation with Soft Robotics”, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2023, pp. 1-11.
  9.  M. Russo, S.M. Hadi Sadati, X. Dong, A. Mohammad, I.D. Walker, C. Bergeles, X. Xu, and D.A. Axinte, “Continuum Robots: An Overview”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5, March 2023, pp. 1-25.
  10. N. Kumar, H-M Chao, B.D. da Silva Tassari, E. Sabinson, I.D. Walker, and K.E. Green, “Design of Two Morphing Robot Surfaces and Results from a User Study On What People Want and Expect of Them, Towards a `Robot-Room’”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 2024, pp. 11239-11244.