Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
124 Engineering/Physics Building
College Station, TX 77843
Email: aames at tamu dot edu
Phone: 979-845-5243
My research interests center around theoretic methods in
dynamical, control and hybrid systems, and formulations thereof, with a
special emphasis on applications of geometric and topological
techniques to mechanical and robotic systems, and specifically bipedal
robotic walkers.
I received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in
Mathematics from the University of St. Thomas in 2001. I received a MA
in Mathematics and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences and the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. I
was a Postdoc at Caltech from 2006-2008.
News and Notes:
[4/01/09]
Code and movies for the CDC papers on bipedal walking with knees and
feet in 2D and 3D can be found here.
"Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a
reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to
practical usefulness."
-Eric Temple Bell
"Good general theory does not search
for the maximum generality, but for the right generality."
-Mac Lane
"The whole concept of a category is
essentially an auxiliary one; our basic concepts are essentially those
of a functor and of a natural transformation ."
