Centers & Institutes
Center for Intelligent Mechatronics
The Center focuses on the design and control of electromechanical devices. Research areas include:
- Design, modeling and control of electromechanical devices and systems
- Modeling and control of smart material actuators such as piezoelectric ceramic and shape memory alloy
- Control of bilateral and scaled bilateral telemanipulation systems
- Design and control of haptic interfaces
- Conventional-scale and small-scale manipulator design and control
- Design and characterization of compliant-mechanism-based robots and devices
- Design and control of self-contained pneumatic actuation systems.
Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)
CIS conducts research into intelligent systems, including topics of:
- Human-robot symbiosis
- Humanoid robots
- Personal and service robots
- Human-robot interface
- Sensory Ego-Sphere
- Mobile robot navigation
- Vision, image and signal processing systems
- Biologically inspired robot control
- Affect-based robot control
- Modeling, simulation, and diagnosis
- Holonic manufacturing
- Remote manufacturing systems
Center for Technology-Guided Therapy
is a multidisciplinary partnership between the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Research areas include:
- Spatial extent, location and structure of diseased area
- Guidance of the delivery of therapy in space and time;
- Tracking of tissue changes in time and space during the course of therapy
Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP)
Vanderbilt leads the Remediation and Mitigation Technology center of expertise CRESP, which works to advance cost-effective cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons production waste sites and test facilities. Research areas include:
- Exposure assessment
- Remediation and mitigation technology
- Socioeconomic impact assessment
- Public policy
- Human health
- Ecology
Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)
conducts research on:
- Embedded system tools and applications
- Adaptive hardware and software systems
- Diagnostics of complex systems
- Generic support for visual modeling
- Model integrated computing
- Modeling languages
- Semantic integration of design tools
- Synthesis and generation of software and hardware
- Techniques for managing complex design spaces
- Verification of complex finite-state systems
Institute for Space and Defense Electronics
studies radiation effects for strategic applications for government and commercial customers. Topic areas include:
- Design and analysis of radiation-hardened electronics
- Development of test methods and plans for assuring radiation hardness
- Development of solutions to system-specific problems related to radiation effects
Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS)
VCEMS conducts research into:
- Methods and management practices to reduce environmental risk
- Environmental management executive knowledge and awareness training
- National leadership summits that address emerging environmental management topics
- Environmental management fundamentals that are currently not well-established in organizations.
Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research (VECTOR)
VECTOR conducts research on:
- Geographical information systems for transportation
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Routing and logistics
- Hazardous materials transport
- Traffic engineering
- Highway safety
- Mass transit planning
Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
conducts research on:
- Instrumenting and Controlling the Single Cell will provide new insights into post-genomic and post-proteomic physiology, drug delivery and toxicology
- Technology Guided Therapy gathers information about the patient and the disease and directs therapy to maximize the treatment of the disease while minimizing the effect on the patient
- Biomedical Imaging uses functional MRI and other modalities to learn about human and animal anatomy, physiology and pathology
- The VaNTH NSF ERC is aimed at developing the bioengineering educational system of the immediate future. It seeks to integrate learning science, learning technology and the domain areas of bioengineering
Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science
supports research leading to the development and application of new and enhanced biomedical imaging techniques. Research areas include:
- Functional and structural brain imaging
- Radiation dosimetry
- NMR fundamentals
- Diffusion and perfusion
- NMR spectroscopy
- Metabolic imaging
- Image analysis and processing
- Clinical MRS and MRI
Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
conducts research on:
- Properties affected by nanoscale dimensions
- Atomic manipulation, coupling of properties at the nanoscale
- Controlled synthesis, fabrication and processing at the nanoscale
- Nanoscale precursors and assembly, nanostructure arrays, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and organic nanostructures
- Quantum dots, quantum wires, quantum wells, superlattices
- Nanoelectronics, single electron electronics and devices, molecular electronics, quantum computing
- Nanomechanics, nanobiological function and life sciences
- Nanoscale instrumentation and characterization
- Nano-optics, photonic crystals with nanoscale structural fidelity
Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE)
ViSE is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome. Research projects include:
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