Faculty DirectoryMatthew Elwin
Associate Professor of Instruction of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Director of the Master of Robotics Program
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
847-491-5474Email Matthew Elwin
Website
Center for Robotics and Biosystems
Departments
Affiliations
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.