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Devin J. Balkcom

Assistant Professor Computer Science
Director of the Robotics Lab
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Departments

  • Computer Science

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Contact Information

Email: devin.balkcom@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1691
Office: 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory

Education

B.A. John Hopkins University; Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Areas of Expertise

Fundamental models of robot, animal, and human locomotion and manipulation

Selected Works

  • Balkcom, D J, A Kavathekar, and M T Mason, "Time-optimal Trajectories for an Omni-directional Vehicle," International Journal of Robotics Research, 25:10 (Oct 2006) 985-999.
  • Balkcom, D J, and M T Mason, Introducing Robotic Origami Folding. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (April 2004) 3245-3250.
  • Balkcom, D J, and Trinkle, J C, "Computing Wrench Cones for Planar Rigid-body Contact Tasks," International Journal of Robotics Research, 21:12 (Dec. 2002) 1053-1066.
  • Balkcom, D J and M T Mason, "Time-optimal Trajectories for Differential Drive Vehicles," International Journal of Robotics Research, 21:3 (March 2002) 199-217.

Current Projects

"Exact Optimal Trajectories for Mobile Robots;" "Computation Reuse for Rigid-body Dynamics;" "Dynamic Mobile Robots for Emergency Surveillance and Situational Awareness"