Jan Paul Huissoon

Jan Paul Huissoon is a professor of knowledge currently teaching at Canada's University of Waterloo. He is known best by his students as a dynamic teacher who is always open to new ideas. Jan has been known to tweak his lecture style with feedback from his students. Working in the department of Mechanical Engineering Huissoon founded Canada's first Mechatronics Engineering program which opened to students in September, 2003.

Research Projects

* Dynamic Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding. [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/welding.html More Info]
* Automatic end-of-arm and tool-centre-point calibration [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/ultracal.html More Info]
* Autonomous Navigation Using Artificial Neural Networks [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/agv.html More Info]
* Arc Acoustics in GMA welding [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/allan.html More Info]
* Walking Wobot Welder [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/bob.html More Info]
* Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Modeling of Human Locomotion

Publications

# J.P. Huissoon, "Robotic Laser Welding: Seam Sensor and Laser Focal Frame Registration", Robotica, 20, 2002, pp261-268.
# J.P. Huissoon, F. Ismail, A. Jafari and S. Bedi, "Automated Polishing of Die Steel Surfaces", J. Advanced Manufacturing, 19, 2002, pp 285-290.
# C.C. Brown & J.P. Huissoon, "Temporal Gait Control of a Quadruped Robot", J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems , 30(4), 2000, pp305-314.
# A.M. Mansoor & J.P. Huissoon, "Acoustic Identification of the GMAW Process", 9th Intl. Conf. on Computer Technology in Welding, Detroit, Sept. 1999, pp312-323.
# M.C. Hellinga, J.P. Huissoon & H.W. Kerr, "Identifying Weld Pool Dynamics for GMA Fillet Welds", Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, 4(1), 1999, pp15-20.
# J.P. Huissoon, "Method and Device for Robot Tool Frame Calibration", US Patent 6044308, March 2000, US Patent Office.
# J.P. Huissoon & D.L. Strauss, "System and Method for Tracking a Feature on an Object using a Redundant Axis", US Patent 5465037, July 1995, US Patent Office.

Education

* Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), 1983
University of Dublin, Trinity College,Dublin, Ireland.
* B.A. (Mathematics), B.A.I. (Engineering Science), 1979
University of Dublin, Trinity College,Dublin, Ireland.

References

* [http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/~jph/ Personal Home Page]
* [http://www.mechatronics.uwaterloo.ca/home.html Official University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering Homepage]
* [http://www.auto21.ca/intelligentsystems7_e.html Dynamic Collaborative Driving]