Biography
U-Xuan has been with Singapore University of Technology and Design since 2012 where he has been working on various robotics and automation related projects. His research interests include sensing & control, localisation & mapping, healthcare automation and human-robot interaction. He is currently the Chair of SUTD Institutional Review Board and is also a Senior Visiting Academician with Changi General Hospital. Prior to joining SUTD, he did his post-doctorate research with Professor Jaydev Desai at University of Maryland, College Park. He earned both his BEng (Minor in Business) and PhD (with Professor Ang Wei Tech) in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
Education
- PhD, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2010
- BEng, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2005
Research Interests
- Robotics & Automation
- Mechatronics
- Sensing & Control
- Localisation & Mapping
- Healthcare Automation
- Human-Robot Interaction
Please refer to the website for more details.
Selected Refereed Journals
- B. Yang, S. Roys,U-X. Tan, M. Philip, H. Richard, R. Gullapalli, and J. P. Desai, “Design, development, and evaluation of a master-slave surgical system for breast biopsy under continuous MRI,”The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2013 (in press).
- U-X. Tan, B. Yang, R. Gullapalli, J. P. Desai, “Tri-Axial MRI Compatible Fiber-optic Force Sensor,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 65-74, Feb., 2011.
- B. Yang,U-X. Tan, A. McMillan, R. Gullapalli, and J. P. Desai, “Design and Control of a 1-DOF MRI Compatible Pneumatically Actuated Robot with Long Transmission Lines,”IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1040-1048, 2010.
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, and W. T. Ang, “A Low-cost Flexure-based Handheld Mechanism for Micromanipulation,”IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 773-778, Aug., 2011.
- W. T. Latt,U-X. Tan, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, “Compact Sensing Design of a Hand-held Active Tremor Compensation Instrument,”IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1864-1871, Dec., 2009.
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, “Feedforward Controller of Ill-Conditioned Hysteresis using Singularity-Free Prandtl-Ishlinskii Model,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 598-605, Oct., 2009.
- U-X. Tan, W. T. Latt, F. Widjaja, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, “Tracking Control of Hysteretic Piezoelectric Actuator using Adaptive Rate-Dependent Controller,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 116-123, Mar., 2009.
- W. T. Ang, U-X. Tan, H. G. Tan, T. Myo, C. K. Ng, K. L. Koh, and B. S. Cheam, “Design & Development of a Novel Balancer with variable difficulty for Training and Evaluation,” Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, vol. 3, pp. 325-331, 2008.
- U-X. Tan, K. C. Veluvolu, W. T. Latt, C. Y. Shee, C. N. Riviere, and W. T. Ang, “Estimating Displacement of Periodic Motion with Inertial Sensors,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1385-1388, Aug., 2008.