Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo

My research interest lies in the design of mechanical and robotic systems to leverage mechanical energy in smart ways. I am particularly interested in those systems that interact with the energy stored in objects by their positions, such as springs, weights, and magnets. To this end, my research has been focused on developing new theories, methods, and techniques for mechanisms, robotics, and machine elements, such as static balancing, parallel robots, reconfigurable mechanisms, decoupled kinematics, and nonlinear and magnetic springs. Applications fields of my past and ongoing research include gravity compensation of robots, rehabilitation devices, assistive technology, surgical robotics, robotic grippers, vibration isolators, mining equipment, energy harvesting, and renewable energy.