Welcome to the Mechanical Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware. Our research interests are in the areas of Robotics and Control with emphasis on Cable-Suspended Robots, Medical and Assistive Robots, Flapping Wing MAVs, Biped Robots, Mobile Robots, and Others.

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Recent Additions / News

• Dr. Agrawal gives invited talk "Robotics for Neuro-motor Training - Exoskeletons & Powered Mobility for Infants" at Johns Hopkins University, Pi Tau Sigma Seminar, Mechanical Engineering. [Mar.13,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor-Impaired" at Workshop on Lower Extremity Exoskeletons, IEEE BIOROB in Pasadena. [Oct.19-22,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "A Streamlined Approach to Future Autonomous Farming" at Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Towards autonomous agriculture of tomorrow, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation in Pasadena. [May.19,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor-Impaired" at Workshop on Wearable Robots, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation on Rehabilitation Robotics in Pasadena[Link][May.19,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Exoskeletons for Gait Training" at Robo Business Conference 2008 Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics in Pittsburgh[Link][April 8-9,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor Impaired" at EURON Winter School on Rehabilitation Robotics in Elche, Spain [Link][Mar.27-29,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Psychological Antecedents & Consequences of Powered Mobility in Infants" at International Conference on Infant Studies in Vancouver [Link][Mar.27-29,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives keynote speech "Early Mobility to Infants with Special Needs - Baby Robots" at United Cerebral Palsy Foundation 2008 Conference, Washington DC [2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives keynote speech "Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of Motor Impaired Subjects" at International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Bahrain.[Dec 1-3,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives keynote speech "Robotic Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor Impaired" at NIST Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop in Gaithersburg, VA, USA [Aug,2008]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited presentation "Autonomous Robots for Mobility and Handling: Integration of Control and Design" at IEEE Symposium on Special Environment Robot Technology, Tohoku University, Japan
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited talk "Exoskeletons for Gait Assistance and Training of the Motor Impaired" at IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts in Hsinchu. [Link][Dec.9-11,2007]
• Babies Driving Robots at University of Delaware, an article from UDaily.[Nov.9,2007]
• Robots Help Stroke Patients, an article from UDel ME newsletter.[Nov.9,2007]
• Dr. Agrawal gives invited talk "Control of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" at EURON Winter School on Parallel Robots in Benidorm, Spain. [Link][March 25-30,2007]
• Congratulations to Sai K. Banala for succesfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled Exoskeletons for Gait Rehabilitation of Motor-Impaired Patients. [Convocation] (12/14/07)
• Our paper "Motion Planning and Control of a Tractor with a Steerable Trailer Using Differential Flatness" authored by "Ji-Chul Ryu, Sunil Agrawal, and Jaume Franch" was judged as the prize winning paper for "MSC Software Simulation Award" given by the ASME Design Engineering Division, Mechanisms and Robotics Committee at the IDETC meeting in Las Vegas, September 2007.
• Thanks to Tom Mintel, John Gangloff, and Richi Lort for working with us during the summer. (2007)
• Welcome to Elizabeth Brackbill for joinig our group as Ph.D. student. (2007)
• Robots Help Stroke Patients Regain Mobility [pdf], an article from Udel ME Newsletter [pdf] (Summer 2007).