Lung-Wen Tsai
A307 Bourns Hall |
Lung-Wen Tsai
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Lung-Wen Tsai received his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1967, M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970, and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1973. He comes to the University of California, Riverside from the University of Maryland where he established a nationally recognized research and education program in mechanisms and machine design, automotive engineering, robot manipulators, and walking machines.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Tsai's research interests include kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms, machine design, design theory and design automation, automotive engineering, robot manipulators, MEMS and other intelligent servomechanisms.
TEXTBOOKS
Tsai, L.W., 2000, Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures According to Function, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000. Tsai, L.W., 1999, Robot Analysis: The Mechanics of Serial and Parallel Manipulators, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1999.
FIVE RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Tsai, L. W. and Joshi, S., 2002, “Kinematic Analysis of 3-DOF Position Mechanisms for Use in Hybrid Kinematic Machines,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 124, No. 2, pp. 245-253. Kimbal, C. and Tsai, L. W., 2002, “Modeling of Flexural Sections Subjected to Arbitrary End Loads,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 124, No. 2, pp. 223-235. Tsai, L. W., Schultz, G., and Higuchi, N., 2001, “A Novel Parallel Hybrid Transmission,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp.161-168. Tsai, L. W. and Joshi, S., 2000, “Kinematics and Optimization of a Spatial 3-UPU Parallel Manipulator,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. 439-446. Tsai, L. W., 2000, “Solving the Inverse Dynamics of a Stewart-Gough Manipulator by the Principle of Virtual Work,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 122, No. 1, pp. 3-9. |
