Glenn Heppler
Professor
SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEERING
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Glenn Heppler is a Professor of in University of Waterloo. He received his PhD - University of Toronto
Research Interest
Dynamics and Control of Structures: All structures, to some degree or another, are flexible and as such are susceptible to vibration under the appropriate loading conditions. It may be earthquakes shaking buildings, or it could be high winds inducing vibration in bridges, buildings or aircraft wings, or maybe it is the vibrations caused by impact such as a tennis ball and a tennis racket. Regardless, all these systems may realize an improvement in design through an understanding of the dynamics of the structures and an appreciation of how the dynamic behaviour might be controlled.
Publications
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Chapnik BV, Heppler GR, Aplevich JD. Controlling the impact response of a one-link flexible robotic arm. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1993 Jun;9(3):346-51.
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Ravichandran T, Wang D, Heppler G. Simultaneous plant-controller design optimization of a two-link planar manipulator. Mechatronics. 2006 May 31;16(3):233-42.
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Chapnik BV, Heppler GR, Aplevich JD. Modeling impact on a one-link flexible robotic arm. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1991 Aug;7(4):479-88.
