SANFORD G MEEK portrait
  • Associate Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering

Publications

  • McClain, E.W., Filsoofi, A.S. & Meek, S., (2021). Stability and Control of a Pacing Quadruped Using Stabilizing Switching Design. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Vol. 6, 8466-8473. Published, 10/04/2021.
  • Shen, T, Afsar, M.R., , Haque, M.R, McClain, E., , Meek, S & Shen, X (2021). Quadrupedal Human-Assistive Robotic Platform (Q-HARP): Design, Control, and Preliminary Testing. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics,. Published, 09/20/2021.
  • Tao Shen, Md Rayhan Afsar, Md Rejwanul Haque, Eric McClain, Sanford Meek & Xiangrong Shen (2019). A Human-assistive Robotic Platform with Quadrupedal Locomotion. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). 305-310. Published, 06/24/2019.
  • Eric W. McClain & Sanford Meek (2018). Determining Optimal Gait Parameters for a Statically Stable Walking Human Assistive Quadruped Robot. IEEE IROS. Published, 10/09/2018.
  • Eric McClain & S.G. Meek (2017). Controller Selection for Myoelectric Prosthetic Hands , Frederickton, New Brunswick, August 2017. Myoelectric Controls 2017 (MEC2017). 105-106. Published, 08/2017.
  • Meek. S.G.; (2017). Future of Prosthetic Limbs. (pp. 793-810). Vol. 8, World Scientific. Published, 07/2017.
  • Quadruped Robot Adaptive Control, NRI PI meeting. Published, 11/06/2015.
  • Development of a Low-Cost Wrist-Elbow Rehabilitation Device, IEEE EMBS Chicago, August 26-30, 2014. Published, 08/30/2014.
  • Gravity Compensation of an Above-Elbow Prosthetic Arm, IEEE EMBS Chicago, August 26-30, 2014. Published, 08/30/2014.
  • "Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Prosthetic Hands to Simultaneously Prevent Slip and Minimize Deformation of Grasped Objects;” IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. Published, 02/2013.
  • “Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of Grasped Object Slip for Prosthetic Hands”, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. Published, 11/2012.
  • “Closed-loop asynchronous intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation to control paralyzed limb position,” 2012 International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society Conference – Smart Machines-Neural Evolution,. Published, 09/2012.
  • “Adaptive parameter selection for asynchronous intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation,” Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Published, 07/2012.
  • “Evoking precise limb motion using real-time feedback-controlled asynchronous intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation,” Neural Interfaces Conference 2012 (& Society for Neuroscience 2012). Published, 06/2012.
  • “Multiple-input single-output closed-loop isometric force control using asynchronous intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation,” Society for Neuroscience 2011. Published, 11/2011.
  • “Closed-loop isometric force control of the feline gastrocnemius muscle using interleaved intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation,” 6th Annual Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conference. Published, 09/2010.
  • “Optimization of interleaved stimulation parameters for multi-electrode arrays,” Neural Interfaces Conference. Published, 06/2010.
  • “An adaptive filtering method to optimize interleaved stimulation parameters for multi-electrode arrays,” Society for Neuroscience 2009. Published, 10/2009.
  • E. Engeberg and S. Meek, (2009), “Backstepping and Sliding Mode Control Hybridized for a Prosthetic Hand,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 17, no. 1 pp70-79. Published, 2009.
  • "Adaptive Filtering Optimization for Multi-Electrode Interleaved Stimulation Parameters, " Neuroscience 2009, October 17-21, Chicago, IL, USA. authors: Frankel, M.A., Mathews, V.J., Meek, S.G., Clark, G.A., Normann, R.A. Published, 2009.
  • Mitch Frankel, Sanford Meek, and Erik Engeberg, “Biomimetic Grip Force Compensation Based on Acceleration of a Prosthetic Wrist Under Sliding Mode Control,” 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. Published, 2009.
  • Engeberg, Erik and Meek, Sanford G, Minor, Mark, (2008) "Hybrid Force-Velocity Control of a Prosthetic Hand," IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, Vol 55 no. 5 pp1572-1581. Published, 2008.
  • E. Engeberg and S. Meek, “Nonlinear Control of Force and Velocity For Prosthetic Hands,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, TNSRE-2007-00190.R2. Published, 2008.
  • Engeberg, Erik and Meek, Sanford G, (2008) "Improved Grasp Force Sensitivity For Prosthetic Hands Through Force Derivative Feedback," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55, pp 817-821. Published, 2008.

Research Keywords

  • prosthetic limbs
  • Robotics, Control, Mechatronic
  • Neuroprosthetics
  • Bioengineering

Presentations

  • Eric McClain, S.G. Meek; Controller Selection for Myoelectric Prosthetic Hands, Myoelectric Controls 2017 (MEC2017), Frederickton, New Brunswick, August 2017. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2017.
  • Quadruped Robot Adaptive Control. Other, Presented, 11/06/2015.
  • Biologically-inspired, hybrid quadruped robot control, NRI meeting. Other, Presented, 11/19/2014.
  • Iterated LQR Smoothing for Locally-Optimal Feedback Control of Systems with Non-Linear Dynamics and Non-Quadratic Cost, ACC, Portlad OR, June 4,5 2014. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/05/2014.
  • Prosthetics Research at the University, MESA meeting. Other, Presented, 03/21/2014.
  • “Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of Grasped Object Slip for Prosthetic Hands,” IROS, San Francisco, Ca, Sept 25-39.k. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/2011.
  • “Closed-Loop Isometric Force Control of the Feline Gastrocnemius Muscle,” 2008 Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conference, September 4-6, Park City, UT, USA. (Award Finalist) authors Frankel, M.A., Norman, R.A., Elmer, S.J., Warren, D.J., Meek, S.G., Clark, G.A. Conference Paper, Refereed, presented, 2008. Other, Presented, 09/2008.
  • Engeberg, Erik D., Meek, Sanford G .”Adaptive Object Slip Prevention for Prosthetic Hands through Proportional-Derivative Shear Force Feedback,” IROS, 2008. Conference Paper, Presented, 2008.
  • E. Engeberg and S. Meek, “Model-Based Feedforward Derivative Compensation For Prosthetic Hands”, The Proceedings of the 2008 BIOROB conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 2008.
  • Meek, S., Kim, J., and Anderson, M.; Stability of a trotting quadruped robot with passive, underactuated legs; ICRA 2008. Conference Paper, Presented, 2008.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Antarctica
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Norway
  • Republic of Korea
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland