Dirk Ruiken

Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Office: LGRC 307, (413) 577-0618
ruiken(at)cs.umass.edu

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at UMass. I am working with professor Rod Grupen at the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics.


Education

  • Diploma, Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, July 2007

Research Projects

  • Balancing Robots uBot-4 and uBot-5
  • Determination of stability criteria for a dynamically stable robotic system

Interests

I am interested in mobile manipulation with dynamically stable robots, control, and learning. Other interests include robot design, parallel kinematic mechanisms, and evolutionary algorithms.

Publications

  • Design and Optimization of a Parallel Kinematic Neck Driving Mechanism, Diploma Thesis, Department of Computer Science & Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. June 2007