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personnel profile

Günter Niemeyer

 
Title:Assistant Professor
Department(s):Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering by courtesy
Location:Terman 525
Mail Code:4021
Fax:650.723.3521
E-mail: gunter.niemeyer@stanford.edu
Administrator: Bernice Marshall

Research Statement

Niemeyer directs the Telerobotics Lab where his research examines robotics and control systems in which a human user plays an essential part. The work involves haptics (recreating a remote or virtual sense of touch), general human-robotic interactions, force sensitivity, motor and robotic control, and user-interfaces. Network transmissions and time delays often play an important role in these studies. Applications range from medical devices, in particular telesurgery and minimally invasive surgery, and medical control system, regulating blood glucose for diabetes patients, to satellite servicing and traditional remote robotic fields. Dr. Niemeyer received his M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in the areas of adaptive robot control and bilateral teleoperation. He joined Stanford University after working at Intuitive Surgical Inc., where he helped create the daVinci Minimally Invasive Surgical System. This telerobotic system enables surgeons to perform complex procedures through small (5 to 10mm) incisions using an immersive interface and is now being used at hundreds of hospitals worldwide.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics 1996 MIT
MS Aeronautics and Astronautics 1990 MIT
BS Physics 1986 RWTH Aachen
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Laser-Machined Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Active Catheters Tung, A.; Park, B-H.; Niemeyer, G....
Haptic Simulation of Manipulator Collisions using Dynamic Proxies Mitra, P.; and Niemeyer, G.
Wave Haptics: Building Stiff Controllers from the Natural Motor Dynamics Diolaiti, N.; Niemeyer, G.; and Tanner, N
User Preferences and Performance in Model Mediated Telemanipulation Mitra, P.; Gentry, D.; and Niemeyer, G.
Wave Haptics: Encoderless Virtual Stiffnesses S. Thrun; R. Brooks; and H. Durrant-Whyte
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Course NumberCourse TitleLink
E15 Dynamics
ME394 Design Forum
ME326 Telerobotics and Human-Robot Interactions
ME19N Robots
E206 Control System Design
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Academic Honors & Awards

National Science Foundation Career Award; Hellman Faculty Scholar Award, Stanford University; James H. Clark Faculty Scholar Award, Stanford University