Edmond Richer, Ph.D.

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Edmond Richer, Ph.D.

Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and Research
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 

Office Location: Embrey 301D

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Dynamical Systems and Control, SMU

  • Engineer’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing, University of Craiova, Romania

Biography

Edmond Richer is serving as the Interim Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at SMU Lyle. 

He became a faculty member at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1999 and received a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Program UTSWMED-UT Arlington in 2005. In 2008 Edmond moved to the Mechanical Engineering department at Lyle School of Engineering, SMU, as an associate professor and the inaugural Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering. He founded the Biomedical Instrumentation and Robotics Laboratory where he conducts research that straddles the border between engineering and biomedical sciences in advanced haptic interfaces, medical robotics, soft robots, and novel additive manufacturing. Edmond’s research was funded by NSF, DOD, NIH, NASA, and various industrial partners. He is an inventor or co-inventor on several US and international patents in ultrasound assessment of bone strength, novel additive manufacturing, multiphase flow measurement, and telecommunications. Edmond has served as Chair of ASME’s Dynamical Systems and Control Division, Biomechanical Panel, UT Southwestern Biomedical Engineering Steering Committee, the Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at SMU. Currently, he serves as Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and Elsevier Mechatronics.

Honors and Awards

  • 2014 Outstanding Paper Award winner for International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics.

  • ASME 2013 Engineer of the Year Award, for Outstanding Achievements and Dedicated Service to the Engineering Profession, ASME North Texas Section.

  • Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award in Mechanical Engineering, 2010, SMU.

  • The Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Mechanical Engineering 1997-1998, School of Engineering and Applied Science, SMU.

  • The Graduate Student Research Award, Research Day 1997, SMU.

  • The Frederick E. Terman Award for Mechanical Engineering 1996-1997, School of Engineering and Applied Science, SMU.

     

Research

  • Advanced haptic interfaces and virtual modeling and prototyping
  • Bio-Instrumentation
  • Medical robotics and intelligent orthotic devices 
  • Soft and wearable robotics
  • Design and control of high-performance actuators

Recent Publications

  • Cox, A. Colaw, C., Richer, E., Galla, M., Hurmuzlu, Y. (2023). Design and Static Equilibrium Analysis of a Modular Pipe Inspection Robot. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, in press.
  • Zamanian, A. H., Krueger, P., Richer, E. (2022) Dynamic Lumped Parameter Modeling and Stability Analysis of Planar Hydraulically Amplified Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, September 2023; 145(9): 091004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062710
  • Zamanian, A. H., Son, D. Y., Krueger, P., Richer, E. (2022). Nonlinear Lumped Parameter Model and Snap-Through Stability Analysis of Hydraulically Amplified Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Jun 2022, 144(6): 061007. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053944
  • Zamanian, A. H., Son, D. Y., Krueger, P.S., Richer, E. (2020). Lumped Parameter Modeling and Snap-Through Stability Analysis of Planar Hydraulically Amplified Dielectric Elastomer Actuators, ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control, Jan 2021, 1(1): 011004.  https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046398