Sean Andersson, PhD

Mechanical Engineering Department Chair & Professor (ME, SE)

Office 110 Cummington Mall, ENG 107
Email sanderss@bu.edu
Phone (617) 353-4949
Website Andersson Lab

Publications

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Research Areas

Professor Andersson believes the potential of scanning probe microscopy has not yet been realized. His current work in this area focuses on bringing systems and control theory to bear in atomic force and confocal laser scanning microscopies with the goal of extending the domain of applicability of these technologies deeper into the realm of dynamic processes.
In symbolic control and robotics, his research is aimed at developing methods for handling the complexity of robots operating in real-world environments. Ongoing work includes the use of symbols to tokenize both the environment and the controls as well as efforts to handle the stochastic nature of actuators and sensors. He is also interested in cooperative approaches based on a symbolic framework of control.

Honors and Awards

Senior Member, IEEE, 2014
NSF CAREER Award, 2009

Additional Affiliations

Division of Systems Engineering

Departments or Divisions: Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Systems Engineering

Affiliations: Administration & Staff, Convergent Faculty, Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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