Matthew T. Mason
Matthew T. Mason | |
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| Born | August 24, 1952 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Manipulator Grasping and Pushing Operations (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomás Lozano-Pérez Berthold K.P. Horn |
Matthew Thomas Mason (born August 24, 1952 in
In 2004, Mason received widespread media attention for developing the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks.[3][4]
Biography
Mason received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, 1978, and 1982, respectively. His M.S. Thesis Compliance and Force Control for Computer Control led Manipulators was advised by Berthold K.P. Horn, and his Ph.D. thesis Manipulator Grasping and Pushing Operations was advised by Tomas Lozano-Perez and Berthold K.P. Horn.
He worked at the
Mason served as the North American Editor of the Butterworths Series in Computer Automation from 1988 to 1994, the technical editor of the IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation from 1989 to 1992, and on the board of editors for the MIT Robotics Review from 1988 to 1992. He is currently a member of the editorial and advisory board for the International Journal of Robotics Research.
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Work
Mason's work is organized around five topics:
- Mechanics of manipulation: modeling the physics of manipulation and how these models translates into implementation in robots.
- Robotic origami: the problem of origami as a challenging manipulation task for robots.
- Manipulation without hands: manipulation with a set of resources instead of just a manipulation subsystem (an arm).
- Locomotion without legs: exploiting all available resources for locomotion, similar to manipulation without hands
- Shortest paths for mobile robots: finding time optimal paths for robot motion.
Publications
Mason has published several books and articles, a selection:
- Matthew T. Mason, Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 2001.
- Pankaj Agarwal, Lydia Kavraki, and Matthew T. Mason, editors. Robotics: the Algorithmic Perspective: 1998 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, A K Peters: Boston. 1998.
- Matthew T. Mason and J. Kenneth Salisbury, Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1985.
- J. Michael Brady, John M. Hollerbach, Timothy Johnson, Tomas Lozano-Perez, and Matthew T. Mason, Robot Motion: Planning and Control, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1982.
Notes and references
- ^ Salisbury, J.K.; Mason, M.T. (1985), Robot Hands and the Mechanics of Manipulation
- ^ Mason, M.T. (2001), Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation
- ^ "Carnegie Mellon Student Develops Origami Folding Robot".
- ^ "Dexterous robot conquers art of origami".
- ^ "Matt Mason to Keynote @ CASE 2019". Berkshire Grey. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
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