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Zhaokun (Brandon) Zhang (张兆坤)

Research Fellow

Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Email: zhaokunz@umich.edu

Research Focus: Cable-driven parallel robots, Parallel robots, Medical devices, Smart manufacturing.

 Research and Teaching Fields

Cable-driven parallel robots

Parallel robots

Biomedical manufacturing and design

Smart manufacturing

Teaching: ME481 Manufacturing Processes

Research Projects

02/18/2023 Call for papers - Special Issue "Advances in Parallel Robots and Mechanisms" [Machines, IF 2.899].

07/08/2022 Dr. Zhang was invited to give a report on atherectomy device at the Young Scholars Forum on High-Performance Medical Device.

04/15/2022 Our review paper on cable-driven parallel robots published in Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering.

03/01/2022 Our work on CDPR calibration published in Mechanism and Machine Theory

09/01/2021 Dr. Zhang joined the Biomedical Manufacturing and Design Lab at Umich as a Research Fellow

06/24/2021 Our patent won the 22nd China Patent Silver Award

12/16/2020 Our project won the First prize of technological invention of the 2020 China Instrument and Control Society Science and Technology Award

12/20/2020 Dr. Zhang won the Gold Award of the 1st National Machinery Industry Design Innovation Competition

10/28/2020 Our paper won the 2020 Outstanding Paper Award of Journal of Tsinghua University

07/01/2020 Dr. Zhang's doctoral dissertation was selected as the 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University

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