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Research
centers, institutes & groups
Center for Intelligent
Mechatronics
The Center focuses on the design and control of
electromechanical devices. Research areas include
- Design, modeling and control of
electromechanical devices and systems
- Modeling and control of smart material
actuators such as piezoelectric ceramic and
shape memory alloy
- Control of bilateral and scaled bilateral
telemanipulation systems
- Design and control of haptic interfaces
- Conventional-scale and small-scale
manipulator design and control
- Design and characterization of
compliant-mechanism-based robots and devices
- Design and control of self-contained
pneumatic actuation systems.
Center for Intelligent Systems
(CIS)
CIS conducts research into intelligent systems,
including topics of:
- Human-robot symbiosis
- Humanoid robots
- Personal and service robots
- Human-robot interface
- Sensory Ego-Sphere
- Mobile robot navigation
- Vision, image and signal processing systems
- Biologically inspired robot control
- Affect-based robot control
- Modeling, simulation, and diagnosis
- Holonic manufacturing
- Remote manufacturing systems
Center for Technology-Guided
Therapy
is a multidisciplinary partnership between the
School of Engineering and the School of Medicine.
Research areas include:
- Spatial extent, location and structure of
diseased area
- Guidance of the delivery of therapy in space
and time;
- Tracking of tissue changes in time and space
during the course of therapy
Consortium for Risk Evaluation
with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP)
Vanderbilt leads the Remediation and Mitigation
Technology center of expertise CRESP, which works to
advance cost-effective cleanup of the nation's
nuclear weapons production waste sites and test
facilities. Research areas include:
- Exposure assessment
- Remediation and mitigation technology
- Socioeconomic impact assessment
- Public policy
- Human health
- Ecology
Institute for Software
Integrated Systems (ISIS)
conducts
research on:
- Embedded system tools and applications
- Adaptive hardware and software systems
- Diagnostics of complex systems
- Generic support for visual modeling
- Model integrated computing
- Modeling languages
- Semantic integration of design tools
- Synthesis and generation of software and
hardware
- Techniques for managing complex design
spaces
- Verification of complex finite-state systems
Institute for Space and
Defense Electronics
studies
radiation effects for strategic applications for
government and commercial customers. Topic areas
include:
- Design and analysis of radiation-hardened
electronics
- Development of test methods and plans for
assuring radiation hardness
- Development of solutions to system-specific
problems related to radiation effects
Laser Diagnostics and
Combustion Group
studies
the phenomenon of combustion. The Group studies and
develops techniques related to:
- Laminar flames
- Turbulent combustion
- Ozone Tagging Velocimetry
Radiation Effects and
Reliability Group
studies the performance
of
advanced integrated circuits in space environments.
Topics of study include:
- Analysis of single event phenomena in
submicron CMOS complex combinational circuitry
- Total dose ionizing radiation effects on
advanced CMOS and bipolar devices and circuits
- Modeling off the single-event collected
charge and current pulse at the device and
circuit levels
- Low-dose rate effects in solid-state devices
and circuits
- Development of simulation tools to
understand and predict single-event
probabilities at the circuit level
- Application of computer simulation tools to
radiation effects
- Characterization of devices and parameter
extractions
- Measurement and analysis of ionization
radiation effects on interface traps and carrier
mobilities in solid-state devices
- Test methods for predicting survival of
electronics in space
- Design and simulation of termination
structures
- Heavy ion single-event burnout and single
event gate rupture modeling for MOSFET and
bipolar power devices
Vanderbilt Center for
Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS)
VCEMS conducts research into:
- Methods and management practices to reduce
environmental risk
- Environmental management executive knowledge
and awareness training
- National leadership summits that address
emerging environmental management topics
- Environmental management fundamentals that
are currently not well-established in
organizations.
Vanderbilt Engineering Center
for Transportation Operations and Research (VECTOR)
VECTOR conducts research on:
- Geographical information systems for
transportation
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Routing and logistics
- Hazardous materials transport
- Traffic engineering
- Highway safety
- Mass transit planning
Vanderbilt Institute for
Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
conducts
research on:
- Instrumenting and Controlling the Single
Cell will provide new insights into post-genomic
and post-proteomic physiology, drug delivery and
toxicology
- Technology Guided Therapy gathers
information about the patient and the disease
and directs therapy to maximize the treatment of
the disease while minimizing the effect on the
patient
- Biomedical Imaging uses functional MRI and
other modalities to learn about human and animal
anatomy, physiology and pathology
- The VaNTH NSF ERC is aimed at developing the
bioengineering educational system of the
immediate future. It seeks to integrate learning
science, learning technology and the domain
areas of bioengineering
Vanderbilt Institute of
Imaging Science
supports research
leading to the development and application of new
and enhanced biomedical imaging techniques. Research
areas include:
- Functional and structural brain imaging
- Radiation dosimetry
- NMR fundamentals
- Diffusion and perfusion
- NMR spectroscopy
- Metabolic imaging
- Image analysis and processing
- Clinical MRS and MRI
Vanderbilt Institute of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering
conducts research on:
- Properties affected by nanoscale dimensions
- Atomic manipulation, coupling of properties
at the nanoscale
- Controlled synthesis, fabrication and
processing at the nanoscale
- Nanoscale precursors and assembly,
nanostructure arrays, fullerenes, carbon
nanotubes and organic nanostructures
- Quantum dots, quantum wires, quantum wells,
superlattices
- Nanoelectronics, single electron electronics
and devices, molecular electronics, quantum
computing
- Nanomechanics, nanobiological function and
life sciences
- Nanoscale instrumentation and
characterization
- Nano-optics, photonic crystals with
nanoscale structural fidelity
Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH)
Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering
Educational Technologies
conducts
research on:
- Intersection of learning science, learning
technologies, and the domains of bioengineering
- Determination of range of knowledge
encompassed by bioengineering
- Structure of knowledge in major
bioengineering domains
- Principles of modular design for teaching
materials
- Development of assessment methods to
determine the effectiveness of new learning
materials
- Development of technology to support
courseware authoring and delivery
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