Ian Walker

EECS

Department Head | Professor

Contact Information

(307) 766-2282iwalker2@uwyo.edu

EN 5068B

Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science

Office Hours: Schedule by Email

Ian Walker

Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1989
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1985
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Hull, UK, 1983.

 

Area of expertise

Robotics: manipulators and manipulation, kinematics, dynamics, and control, continuum "tongue, trunk, and tentacle" robots, soft robotics.

 

Selected publications

  1.  D. Trivedi, C.D. Rahn, W.M. Kier, and I.D. Walker. . Advanced Bionics and Biomechanics, Vol. 5, No. 2, September 2008, pp. 99-117.
  2. K.J. Niklas and I.D. Walker. . Biomimetics, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2021, pp. 1-12.
  3. I.A. Gravagne and I.D. Walker. . IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 263-273.
  4. M.A. Hannan and I.D. Walker. . Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, February 2003, pp. 45-63.
  5. B. Jones and I.D. Walker. . IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 45-53.
  6. M.B. Wooten, C.G. Frazelle, I.D. Walker, A.D. Kapadia, and J.H. Lee. . Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, May 2018, pp. 5526-5523.
  7. M.B. Wooten and I.D. Walker. . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 4, October 2022, pp. 10136-10143.
  8. A. Carambia, C.G. Frazelle, A.D. Kapadia, and I.D. Walker, “Non-Cooperative Space Object Capture and Manipulation with Soft Robotics”, Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2023, pp. 1-11.
  9.  M. Russo, S.M. Hadi Sadati, X. Dong, A. Mohammad, I.D. Walker, C. Bergeles, X. Xu, and D.A. Axinte, “Continuum Robots: An Overview”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5, March 2023, pp. 1-25.
  10. N. Kumar, H-M Chao, B.D. da Silva Tassari, E. Sabinson, I.D. Walker, and K.E. Green, “Design of Two Morphing Robot Surfaces and Results from a User Study On What People Want and Expect of Them, Towards a `Robot-Room’”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 2024, pp. 11239-11244.