Our paper “Transcending the acceleration-bandwidth trade-off: Over-actuated precision motion stages with selective compliance and servo stiffness” (Mechatronics, 2025) has been awarded an IFAC Mechatronics Paper Prize! 🎉 This prize is awarded every three years by …
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Congratulations to our newest PhD graduates!
Laura and Jingjie have successfully defended their PhD dissertations in August 2026. Laura’s thesis is titled “Estimation Techniques for Sensorless Control of Electric Machines”, and Jingjie’s is “Integrated Hardware and Control Design towards High-Acceleration and …
Congrats to Power Engineering Awardees Laura, Jingjie, and Shuaihu!
Congratulations to Laura, Jingjie, and Shuaihu for receiving Power Engineering Awards! So exciting! Laura is receiving the Grainger Dissertator Awards for her work on sensorless estimation and control for magnetic bearings and electric machines. Jingjie …
Welcome New Faces in the Lab: Shuaihu and Shaowei!
We are thrilled to welcome Shuaihu to join the lab as a new PhD student, and welcome Shaowei to visit our team for three months!
Our lab receives an NSF CAREER award!
Prof. Lei Zhou received National Science Foundation CAREER Award: “Synergistic co-design of hardware and control systems for over-actuated motion stages in high-throughput chip manufacturing”. Congratulations! Find more about the project through NSF link
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Heyman!
Congratulations to Dr. Ian Heyman, the first Ph.D. graduate from our lab, for successfully defending their dissertation and completing their doctoral journey! Dr. Heyman’s PhD thesis focuses on the design, building, and testing for a …
PMCL at ASPE 2024
We had a fantastic week at the 39th American Society for Precision Engineering Annual meeting in Houston, TX, where Jingjie made an oral presentation on his work on surrogate-model assisted control co-design framework for overactuated …
Welcome Anson and Daniil!
We are thrilled to welcome Anson and Daniil as the newest members of the PMCL group!
PMCL Presents at 2024 WEMPEC Annual Review
We presented our research at the 2024 WEMPEC annual review, and we had lots of fun interacting with our member companies through presentations, open-lab poster sessions, and networking.
Dr. Zhou joins ASPE board of directors
Congratulations to Dr. Lei Zhou on being elected as Director-at-Large of the American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE)!