Bernard Roth

Professor
Faculty of Design Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.S. The City College of New York - Mechanical Engineering (1956)

M.S. Columbia University - Mechanical Engineering (1958)

Ph.D. Columbia University - Mechanical Engineering (1962)

 

 

Research Interests

Robotics, kinematics, analytical methods in design, technology and society, design and creative problem solving.

He is an active researcher with over 175 publications in the areas of robotics, kinematics and design. Dr. Roth is in wide demand as a lecturer and speaker, and has lectured throughout the world. He is a past president of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, and a past chairman of the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has served as an industrial consultant to companies such as ibm, fmc, Hitachi and Toyota. He has also been a director of several corporations. He is the organizer and originator of workshops on teaching, research and his research and teaching. These include: The Joseph F. Engleberger Award for Robotics, the ASME Machine Design Award and Melville Medal, the IEEE Pioneer in Robotic Award, the ASME Outstanding Design Educator Award, and five best conference paper awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

 

Sample Publication Topics

B. Roth, "The Theoretical Basis for the Mechanical Aspects of Robot Design," ROMANSY-13, Proceedings Thirteenth CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators, Eds. A. Morecki et al., Springer, Wien (2000).

J. Nielsen and B. Roth, "On the Kinematic Analysis of Robotic Mechanisms," International Journal of Robotics Research, v. 18, no. 12, pp. 1147-1160 (1999.)

B. Roth, "Second Order Approximations for Ruled-Surface Trajectories," Proceedings Tenth World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Oulu, Finland, Vol. 2, pp.443-448 (1999.)

R.A. Faste, B. Roth and D.J. Wilde, "Integrating Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum," Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME, pp. 93-98 (1993).

 

Projects

NSF: The design of a testbed for human-friendly robots.

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