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Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
Contact
126 Academy Street
Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
Office: Spencer Lab 228
(302) 831 6888
Office hours:
Tuesdays 1-3:00 pm
Spencer Lab Rm 302
Research Interests
Bert Tanner works in the general field of planning and control of robotic systems, with emphasis to multi-agent coordination. Specific areas include hybrid dynamical systems, mobile manipulation, nonholonomic motion planning and control, and mobile sensor networks.
Biography
Bert Tanner earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece, in 2001. He went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher. From 2003 to 2005 he was an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. In 2008, he joined the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He was awarded the NSF Career award in robotics in 2005, was elected a senior member of IEEE in 2008, and became an ASME fellow in 2018.
News
Congrats to Dr. Kleio Baxevani !
Bert Tanner appointed Associate Chair for Graduate Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
We deployed one of the largest micro-AUV fleet !
Many thanks to Kleio Baxevani, Chanaka Achchillage, and our Jaia Robotics friends Ian, Matt and Michael.
