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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jingang Yi

Professor

Head shot of Asian male wearing a blue button down shirt.
Location

School of Engineering
98 Brett Road, Room D-155
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone

848-445-3282

Email

jgyi@rutgers.edu

Website

http://coewww.rutgers.edu/~jgyi/

Area Of Expertise Autonomous vehicle and robotic systems, physical human/robot interactions, mechatronics, automation science and engineering with applications to civil infrastructure, oceanic and manufacturing systems

Operational Unit Faculty

Research Interests

Autonomous vehicle and robotic systems, physical human/robot interactions, mechatronics, automation science and engineering with applications to civil infrastructure, oceanic and manufacturing systems. He is the Director of the Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) Lab at Rutgers. Currently, Dr. Yi and the students at RAM Lab work on various exciting research projects, such as sensor-based tire/road interaction modeling and control, human-inspired safety-preserved agile vehicle maneuvers; autonomous motorcycles/bicycles; unstable physical human/robot interaction (upHRI) and rehabilitation robotics, autonomous robots for automated non-destructive evaluation and rehabilitation system for bridge decks, and robotic biological sampler system for the autonomous underwater gliders, etc.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
  • M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2001
  • M.Eng.,Tsinghua University, China, 1996
  • B.S., Zhejiang University, China, 1993