Tom Secord

Education

Academic Background

B.M.E., University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology.
Minneapolis, MN

S.M., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Research Interests: Smart material actuators, robotics, control system design, manufacturing
Publications: Secord T.W., Modeling, Identification, and Application of Multilayer Polypyrrole Conducting Polymer Actuators, S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.

Secord T.W., Asada H., “A Humanoid Foot with Polypyrrole Conducting Polymer Artificial Muscles for Energy Storage and Dissipation”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007, Rome, Italy.

Secord T.W., Stelson K.A., Mantell S.C., “Scaling Analysis and a Critical Thickness Criterion for Thermosetting Composites”, Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2006, Chicago, Illinois.

Ueda J., Secord T.W., Asada H., “Design of PZT Cellular Actuators with Power-law Strain Amplification”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007, San Diego, California.

McCombie D.B., Secord T.W., Asada H., “Modeling and Observer Design for Polypyrrole Conducting Polymer Actuators”, Proceedings of the IEEE / RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, Pisa, Italy.
Patents