Active Research Projects

1. Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles and Sensors: A Systems Perspective

2. Highly Maneuverable Robotic Fish based on Biological Principles and Biomimetic Materials

3. Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Smart Material-Actuated System with Application to Nanopositioning

4. ORCHID: Harnessing Digital Evolution to Design High-Assurance Adaptive Systems

5. Testbed for Evolving Adaptive and Cooperative Behavior Among Autonomous Systems

6. Multivariable Control of Superconducting Particle Accelerator Cavities

Other Work of Dr. Tan (see the Publications page)

• Decentralized Coordination of Autonomous Swarms Using Tools from Statistical Physics

• Modeling of Microfabricated Linear Ball Bearings

• Modeling and Control of Magnetostrictive Actuators

• Computational Micromagnetics

• Almost Symplectic Integration of Hamiltonian Systems