Faculty
Tsai, Lung-Wen
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Lung-Wen Tsai received his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan
University in 1967, M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo
in 1970, and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1973. He comes to the
University of California, Riverside from the University of Maryland where he
established a nationally recognized research and education program in mechanisms
and machine design, automotive engineering, robot manipulators, and walking
machines.
Research Topics
Dr. Tsai's research interests include kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms,
machine design, design theory and design automation, automotive engineering,
robot manipulators, MEMS and other intelligent servomechanisms.
Textbooks
Tsai, L.W., 2000, Mechanism Design: Enumeration of Kinematic Structures
According to Function, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.
Tsai, L.W., 1999, Robot Analysis: The Mechanics of Serial and Parallel
Manipulators, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1999.
Selected Publications
Tsai, L. W. and Joshi, S., 2002, “Kinematic Analysis of 3-DOF Position
Mechanisms for Use in Hybrid Kinematic Machines,” ASME Transactions, Journal of
Mechanical Design, Vol. 124, No. 2, pp. 245-253.
Kimbal, C. and Tsai, L. W., 2002, “Modeling of Flexural Sections Subjected to
Arbitrary End Loads,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 124,
No. 2, pp. 223-235.
Tsai, L. W., Schultz, G., and Higuchi, N., 2001, “A Novel Parallel Hybrid
Transmission,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 123, No. 2,
pp.161-168.
Tsai, L. W. and Joshi, S., 2000, “Kinematics and Optimization of a Spatial
3-UPU Parallel Manipulator,” ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanical Design,
Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. 439-446.
Tsai, L. W., 2000, “Solving the Inverse Dynamics of a Stewart-Gough
Manipulator by the Principle of Virtual Work,” ASME Transactions, Journal of
Mechanical Design, Vol. 122, No. 1, pp. 3-9.
