School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Faculty
John P. Swensen
Associate Professor
Dana 239E
509 335 1031
john.swensen@wsu.edu
Modeling, Motion, and Medical Robotics Laboratory (M3 Robotics Lab)
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2012
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2003
Professional Preparation
- Associate Research Scientist, GRAB Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University, 2014 – 2015
- Postdoctoral Associate, GRAB Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University, 2011 – 2014
Research Interests
- Medical robotics
- Steerable Needles
- Compliant devices
- Tunably compliant mechanisms
- Modular robotics
- Compliant ensembles
- Smart materials in robotics
Selected Publications
Complete List of Publications on Google Scholar
- Swensen JP, Odhner LU, Araki B, Dollar AM. Printing Three-Dimensional Electrical Traces in Additive Manufactured Parts for Injection of Low Melting Temperature Metals. ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. 2015;7(2):021004-021004-10. doi:10.1115/1.4029435.
- J. P. Swensen and A. M. Dollar. Optimization of parallel spring antagonists for nitinol shape memory alloy actuators. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 6345–6349, May 2014.
- J. P. Swensen, A. I. Nawroj, P. E. I. Pounds, and A. M. Dollar. Active cells for redundant and configurable articulated structures. Smart Materials and Structures 23(10):104003, 2014.
- Swensen, J.P.; MingDe Lin; Okamura, A.M.; Cowan, N.J., “Torsional Dynamics of Steerable Needles: Modeling and Fluoroscopic Guidance,” Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, vol.61, no.11, pp.2707,2717, Nov. 2014. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2326161
- A. I. Nawroj, J. P. Swensen, and A. M. Dollar. Electrically conductive bulk composites through a contact-connected aggregate. PLoS ONE 8(12):e82260, 12 2013.
- J. P. Swensen and A. M. Dollar. The connectedness of packed circles and spheres with application to conductive cellular materials. PLoS ONE 7(12):e51695, 12 2012.