Faculty Directory
Matthew Elwin

Associate Professor of Instruction of Mechanical Engineering

Co-Director of the Master of Robotics Program

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-5474Email Matthew Elwin

Website

Center for Robotics and Biosystems


Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Affiliations

Master of Science in Robotics Program

Education

PhD in mechanical engineering, Northwestern University

MS in mechanical engineering, Northwestern University

BE with an emphasis in control systems, Dartmouth College

AB in engineering sciences, Dartmouth College


Research Interests

My research interests include swarm robotics, cooperative robot manipulation, robotic navigation, and mechatronics.


Selected Publications

M. L. Elwin, B. Strong, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch. Human-multirobot collaborative mobile manipulation: The omnid mocobots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(1):376–383, 2023 PDF

M. L. Elwin, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Distributed Environmental Monitoring With Finite Element Robots, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, pp. 1 - 19, 01-2019/ 2019 DOI Google Scholar PDF

J. George, M. L. Elwin, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Distributed Fault Detection and Accommodation in Dynamic Average Consensus, 2018 American Control Conference (ACC), United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5019-5024, 8/ 2018 DOI Google Scholar

M. L. Elwin, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Distributed Voronoi Neighbor Identification From Inter-Robot Distances, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, pp. 1320-1327, July/ 2017 DOI Google Scholar PDF

K. M. Lynch, N. D. Marchuk, and M. L. Elwin, Embedded Computing and Mechatronics with the PIC32 Microcontroller, Oxford: Newnes, 2016 Google Scholar

M. L. Elwin, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Environmental Estimation with Distributed Finite Element Agents, 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5918-5924, Dec/ 2016 Google Scholar PDF

M. L. Elwin, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Worst-Case Optimal Average Consensus Estimators for Robot Swarms, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2014 Google Scholar PDF

M. Hwang, M. L. Elwin, P. Yang, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch, Experimental Validation of Multi-Agent Coordination by Decentralized Estimation and Control, Networking Humans, Robots, and Environments, Bentham Science, 2013 Google Scholar

In the Classroom

Matthew teaches robotics courses, advises robotics projects, and develops curriculum for the MS in Robotics program.