Mark R. Cutkosky

Professor and Associate Chair
Design Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Degrees
B.S. University of Rochester - Mechanical Engineering (1978)
M.S. Carnegie-Mellon University - Mechanical Engineering (1982)
Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University - Mechanical Engineering (1985)

Activities
Mark R. Cutkosky joined the Design Division of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Dept. in 1985, after working for several years in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and as a machine design engineer at ALCOA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cutskosky's research interests include robotic manipulation and tactile sensing and the design and fabrication of small, biologically inspired robots using layered manufacturing methods. He is a principal investigator of the Design Interface for 3D Manufacturing and Biomimetic Robotics projects at the Center for Design Research, director of the Dextrous Manipulation Lab, and a co-director of the Stanford Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing.

Awards/Honors
Fulbright Distinguished Chair for mechatronics, Pisa, Italy (2002)
JSPS fellowship, Japan (2001)
Charles M. Pigott Professorship (1996)
Best paper award, ASEE Symposium (2000)
Best paper award, ASME Database Symposium (1994)
Outstanding paper award, IEEE ICRA (1993)
Anderson Faculty Scholar (1989)
NSF President Young Investigator (1986)

Selected Publications
    M. Binnard and M.R. Cutkosky, "A Design by Composition Approach for Layered Manufacturing," to appear in ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design,Spring 2000.    
    Bailey, S.A., Cham J. G., Cutkosky, M. R. and Full, R. J, "Biomimetic Robotic Mechanisms via Shape Deposition Manufacturing," Robotics Research: the Ninth International Symposium, J. Hollerbach and D. Koditschek (Eds), Springer-Verlag, London, 2000.
    Okamura, A. and Cutkosky, M.R., "Feature Detection for Haptic Exploration with Robotic Fingers," to appear in the International Journal of Robotics Research, 2002.
    H. Jeon, C.J. Petrie and M.R. Cutkosky, "JATLite: A Java Agent Infrastructure with Message Routing",  IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2000, pp.87-96.
    A.M. Okamura, M.A. Costa, M.L. Turner, C. Richard, and M.R. Cutkosky, "Haptic Exploration of Surfaces", Experimental Robotics VI, P. Corke and J. Trevelyan, eds., Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 250, Springer-Verlag, 2000, pp. 423-432.
    C.J. Petrie, T. Webster and M.R. Cutkosky, "Using Pareto Optimality to Coordinate Distributed Agents," AIEDAM Vol. 9, 1995, pp. 269-281.
     M.R. Cutkosky, J. Glicksman and J.M. Tenenbaum, "MadeFast: Collaborative Engineering Over the Internet" Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 9, 1996, pp. 78-87
     R.D. Howe and M.R. Cutkosky, "Practical Force-Motion Models for Sliding Manipulation," The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 15, 1996, pp. 557-572.
    
Teaching

• Fall 2000: ME310a Tools for Team-Based Design
• Winter, Spring 2001: Design Project Experience with Corporate Partners