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Professor
Kamal Youcef-Toumi
Interests
- Dynamic Systems and Controls
- Robotics and Manufacturing Automation
- Mechatronic Design of Precision Machines
Professor Youcef-Toumi News + Media
2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT
In this year’s Class 2.12: Introduction to Robotics, undergraduate students joined forces to build a robot that can emulate complex human movement with a soccer-theme.
Finding leaks while they’re easy to fix
Small robotic device developed by Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi and graduate student You Wu can inspect water or gas pipes from the inside to find leaks long before they become catastrophic.
New Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes
Kamal Youcef-Toumi developed an atomic force microscope that enables scientists to watch nanoscale chemical processes in near-real time.
Faculty Details
Education
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1979
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI-MAIN CAMPUS
B.Sc. -
1981
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
M.Sc. -
1985
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
D.Sc.
Research Interests
- High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
- Instrumentation and controls as related to robotics, smart-grids, and manufacturing automation.
Honors + Awards
- 2014 National Instruments Engineering Impact Award in Advanced Research, for Building the World’s Largest Range, High-Speed Atomic Force Microscope.
- 1999 Winner of the Best Paper Award of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.
- 1988-1990 Carl Richard Soderberg Career Development Chair, Professorship in Power Engineering.
- 1987 Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation Award in Recognition of Research and Teaching Accomplishments. (A two- year appointment.)
Memberships
- ASME Society - Fellow
- IEEE Society - Member
- Sigma Xi Society - Elected Member
Professional Service
- October 2013 - Panel Member/Interviewer re Proposals for Centres for Doctoral Training, "Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Swinton, UK
- Jan. 2008 - Present ASME's Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) Conference Editorial Board. Associate editor
- 2011 Dynamic Systems and Control (DSC) conference, sponsored by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of ASME International, Arlington, Virginia. Vice-Chair for Workshops, Oct. 2011
MIT Service
- July 2008 present Co-Director of Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM
- July 2008 June 30, 2011 Head, Mechanical Engineering Controls, Robotics & Instrumentation Area
- July 2000 - May 30, 2005 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Faculty Liaison (Engineering Internship Program) -
- Sept. 2005 Mechanical Engineering Department Research Council - Member
- July 1998 present Professor (with tenure)
- July 1992 June 1998 Associate Professor (with tenure)
- July 1989 June 1992 Associate Professor (without tenure)
- Jan. 1986 June 1989 Assistant Professor
- June 1985 Dec. 1985 Research Associate and Lecturer
Teaching
- Dynamics & Control II (2.004)
- Design & Manufacturing I (2.007)
- Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems (2.14)
- Advanced System Dynamics and Control (2.151)
Publications
- Energy-Water Nexus & Smart Gid
- A. Santhosh , A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``The Impact of Storage Facility Capacity and Ramping Capabilities on the Supply Side of the Energy-Water Nexus,'' Energy, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 1--10, 2014. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.mit.edu/10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.031
- A. Santhosh , A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``Real-Time Economic Dispatch for the Supply Side of the Energy-Water Nexus,'' Applied Energy, vol. 122, no. 1, pp. 42--52, 2014. [Online]. Available:
- S. Rivera, A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``A Multi-Agent System Transient Stability Platform for Resilient Self-Healing Operation of Multiple Microgrids,'' in 5th Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Washington D.C., 2014, pp. 1--5.
- A. Muzhikyan , A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``A Power Grid Enterprise Control Method for Energy Storage System Integration,'' in IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014, pp. 1-6.
- W. N. Lubega , A. Santhosh , A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``An Integrated Energy and Water Market for the Supply Side of the Energy-Water Nexus in the Engineered Infrastructure,'' in ASME 2014 Power Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2014, pp. 1--11.
- A. Muzhikyan , A. M. Farid, and K. Youcef-Toumi, ``An Enhanced Method for the Determination of Load Following Reserves,'' in American Control Conference, 2014, Portland, Oregon, 2014, pp.1--8.
- High-Speed, Large-Range Atomic Force Microscopes
- I. Soltani Bozchalooi, and Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Multi-Actuation and PI control: a Simple Recipe for High-Speed and Large-Range Atomic Force Microscopy, Ultramicroscopy, 146 (2014), 117-124 (Impact Factor: 2.745).
- H. Tavakoli Nia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Yang Li, Lin Han, Han-Hwa Hung, Eliot Frank, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Christine Ortiz, Alan Grodzinsky, High-Bandwidth AFM-Based Rheology Reveals that Cartilage is Most Sensitive to High Loading Rates at Early Stages of Impairment, Biophysical journal, 104 (2013) 1529-1537. (Cited: 12), (Impact factor: 3.976). Appeared in MIT-News and Science Daily.
- I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K Youcef-Toumi, D J Burns and G E Fantner, Compensator design for improved counterbalancing in high speed atomic force microscopy, American Institute of Physics - Review of Scientific Instruments, 82 (2011) 113712, 12 pages. (Cited: 8) (Impact factor: 1.6)
- I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, Control Design for Division and Compensation with Application to High-Speed/High-Range Nano-Positioning, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon (ACC 2014). Best presentation award in precision mechatronics. Invited Paper
- H. T. Nia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Y. Li, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, A. Grodzinsky and C. Ortiz, The Effect of GAG Depletion on Cartilage Nanoscale Hydraulic Permeability, Transactions of the 58th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, 2012
- In-Pipe Leak Detection
- D. Chatzigeorgiou, K. Youcef-Toumi and R. Ben-Mansour, “MIT Leak Detector: Modeling & Analysis towards Observability," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, July 2014 (to appear)
- R. Ben-Mansour, M. A. Habib, A. Khalifa, K. Youcef-Toumi and D. Chatzigeorgiou, “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Small leaks in Water pipelines for direct leak pressure transduction,” Computer & Fluids, 2012
- R. Ben Mansour, K. A. Suara and K. Youcef-Toumi, “Determination of Important Flow Characteristics for Leak Detection in Water Pipelines-Networks,” Computational Thermal Sciences, 2013
- Video Submission : Chatzigeorgiou D., Wu Y., Youcef-Toumi K. and Ben-Mansour R., "MIT Leak Detector: An In-Pipe Leak Detection Robot," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014
- Chatzigeorgiou D., Youcef-Toumi K. and Ben-Mansour R., "Modeling and Analysis of an In-Pipe Robotic Leak Detector," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014
Patents
- US Patent No. 8869599. "LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON FORCE TRANSDUCTION", Dimitrios Chatzigeorgiou, Changrak Choi, Atia Khalifa, Rached Ben Mansour, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, 10/28/2014.
- US Patent No. 8820143. "LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM" Dimitrios Chatzigeorgiou, Stephen Sai-Wung Ho, Rached Ben Mansour, Sanjay E Sarma, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, 09/02/2014.
- NO. 8818723 ”Localization And Tracking System For Mobile Robots”, Inventors: Andreas Schuh and Kamal Youcef-Toumi, (Cambridge, MA) Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), 08/26/14.
- US Patent No. 8795572 "SYMMETRIC THERMOCENTRIC FLEXURE WITH MINIMAL YAW ERROR PROTECTION" Vijay Shilpiekandula, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Issued 08/05/14.
- Muhammad A Hawwa, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, "ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR PIPELINE REHABILITATION", US Patent No. 8783297. Issued 07/22/14.
- US Patent No. 8516610. "HIGH-FREQUENCY RHEOLOGY SYSTEM" Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, Eliot Frank, Alan J Grodzinsky, Christine Ortiz, Hadi Tavakoli Nia, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, 08/20/13.
- US Patent No. 8410798 "FLEXURAL MECHANISM FOR PASSIVE ANGLE ALIGNMENT AND LOCKING" Justin Yi-Shen Lai, Vijay Shilpiekandula, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Issued 04/02/13.
- US Patent No. 8390233 "HIGH-RESOLUTION FLEXURAL STAGE FOR IN-PLANE POSITION AND OUT-OF-PLANE PITCH/ROLL ALIGNMENT" Vijay Shilpiekandula, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Issued 03/05/13.
- US Patent No. 8347409 "RESONANCE COMPENSATION IN SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY" Daniel J Burns, Georg E Fantner, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Issued 01/01/13.
- US Patent No. 8210840 "DIAPHRAGM FLEXURE WITH LARGE RANGE AND HIGH LOAD CAPACITY", Vijay Shilpiekandula, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Issued 07/03/12.
- Patent 7865268 ”Mechanical Fish Robot Exploiting Vibration Modes For Locomotion”, Inventors: Pablo Valdivia Y (Cambridge, MA), Youcef-Toumi; Kamal(Cambridge, MA) Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), Issued January 4, 2011.
- United States of America Serial No. 61/485675 ”An Acoustic Probe For Leak Detection In Water Pipelines, Yagoub N. Al-Nassar, Hussain Al-Qahtani, Muhammad A. Hawwa and Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Filed May 13, 2011
- United States of America Serial No. 61/479523, ”Robotic Apparatus And Process For Pipeline Rehabilitation Inventors: Muhammad A. Hawwa and Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Filed April 27, 2011.