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Jorge Angeles

Jorge Angeles

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
67
Citations
22455
World Ranking
452
National Ranking
22

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
67
Citations
22500
World Ranking
1054
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the kinematics, dynamics and design of robotic mechanical systems.
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Jorge Angeles is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes in the field of engineering, with a strong focus on control and systems engineering. Their research portfolio includes 118 publications primarily concentrated in this field, spanning subfields such as control and systems engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research covers multiple specific topics, including:

  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Piezoelectric Actuators and Control
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Mechanical Engineering and Vibrations Research
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Jorge Angeles has contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing in notable venues such as:

  • Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
  • Microsystem Technologies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Progression of Fatty Liver Disease in Children Receiving Standard of Care Lifestyle Advice" (2020, Gastroenterology)
  • "Bioinspired Rigid-Soft Hybrid Origami Actuator With Controllable Versatile Motion and Variable Stiffness" (2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics)
  • "Design and validation of a spatial two-limb 3R1T parallel manipulator with remote center-of-motion" (2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory)
  • "A novel prosthetic finger design with high load-carrying capacity" (2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory)
  • "Mobility and singularity analyses of a symmetric multi-loop mechanism for space applications" (2021, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science)

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Jorge Angeles include:

  • Shaoping Bai (10 publications)
  • Qi Sun (7 publications)
  • James Richard Forbes (6 publications)
  • Damiano Pasini (5 publications)
  • Joel E. Lavine (3 publications)

Jorge Angeles has also contributed to academic books published by Springer International Publishing and Springer Nature. Notable book publications include:

  • Kinematics of Mechanical Systems (2022), cited 10 times
  • Fundamentals of Geometry Construction (2020), cited 3 times

Throughout their career, Jorge Angeles has been recognized with several awards and honors:

  • IEEE Fellow (2006) for contributions to the kinematics, dynamics, and design of robotic mechanical systems
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2003), Academy of Science
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1991)
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • Singularity analysis of closed-loop kinematic chains

    C. Gosselin;J. Angeles

  • Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems

    Jorge Angeles

  • Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods, and Algorithms

    Jorge Angeles

  • A Global Performance Index for the Kinematic Optimization of Robotic Manipulators

    C. Gosselin;J. Angeles

  • The optimum kinematic design of a spherical three-degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator

    C. Gosselin;J. Angeles

  • Rational kinematics

    Jorge Angeles

  • Kinematic isotropy and the optimum design of parallel manipulators

    Kourosh E. Zanganeh;Jorge Angeles

  • Kinematic isotropy and the conditioning index of serial robotic manipulators

    Jorge Angeles;Carlos S. López-Cajún

  • Architecture singularities of platform manipulators

    O. Ma;J. Angeles

  • The Qualitative Synthesis of Parallel Manipulators

    Jorge Angeles

  • Spatial Kinematic Chains: Analysis ― Synthesis ― Optimization

    Jorge Angeles

  • On the Numerical Solution of the Inverse Kinematic Problem

    Jorge Angeles

  • Optimum architecture design of platform manipulators

    O. Ma;J. Angeles

  • Optimization of cam mechanisms

    Jorge Angeles;C. S. Lopez-Cajun

  • The Kinetostatic Optimization of Robotic Manipulators: The Inverse and the Direct Problems

    Waseem A. Khan;Jorge Angeles

  • The design of isotropic manipulator architectures in the presence of redundancies

    Jorge Angeles

  • The Formulation of Dynamical Equations of Holonomic Mechanical Systems Using a Natural Orthogonal Complement

    Jorge Angeles;Sang Koo Lee

  • Generalized transmission index and transmission quality for spatial linkages

    Chao Chen;Jorge Angeles

  • Singularity analysis of planar parallel manipulators

    H.R. Mohammadi Daniali;P.J. Zsombor-Murray;J. Angeles

  • A New Family of Two-Wheeled Mobile Robots: Modeling and Controllability

    A. Salerno;J. Angeles

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien Chablat
Damien Chablat École Centrale de Nantes
Damiano Pasini
Damiano Pasini McGill University
Arun K. Misra
Arun K. Misra McGill University
Clément Gosselin
Clément Gosselin Université Laval
Stéphane Caro
Stéphane Caro Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ou Ma
Ou Ma University of Cincinnati
Meyer Nahon
Meyer Nahon McGill University
I-Ming Chen
I-Ming Chen Nanyang Technological University
Larry Lessard
Larry Lessard McGill University
Evangelos Papadopoulos
Evangelos Papadopoulos National Technical University of Athens

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