| Ephrahim Garcia |
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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| Research Group Web Page:
| Laboratory for Intelligent Machine Systems
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| Address: |
224 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 |
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(607) 255-4366
(607) 255-1222
eg84@cornell.edu |
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Dr. Garcia is interested in several areas of dynamics and controls, especially sensors and actuators involving smart materials. |
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| Current Projects |
- Perching Aircraft Mechanisms and Controls
- Design of a High-Efficiency Flapping Wing Micro-Air Vehicle
- System Characterization of Micro-Scale Sensors and Actuators
- Design of Reconfigurable Macro-Scale Morphing Aircraft Mechanisms
- DARPA Grand Challenge Autonomous Vehicle Team
- Distributed Intelligence in Small Robotic Swarms
- Electrochemistry and Implementation of Fuel Cell Technology for Avionics
- Smart Material Actuators and Sensors
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| Selected Publications |
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Lobontiu, N., Garcia, E.
Mechanics of Microelectromechanical Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. |
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Wickenheiser, A. and Garcia, E.
"Aerodynamic Modeling of Morphing Wings Using an Extended Lifting-Line Analysis", Journal of Aircraft 44(1) 10-16, 2007. |
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Wickenheiser, A. and Garcia, E.
"Longitudinal Dynamics of a Perching Aircraft", Journal of Aircraft 43(5) 1386-1392, 2006. |
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Alcazar, J. A. and Garcia, E.
"Parametric Analysis for Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Behavior in the Predator-Prey Pursuit Domain", Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 82(12) 827-840, 2006. |
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Lobontiu, N., Ilic, B., Garcia, E. Reissman, T., and Craighead, H.G.
"Modeling of Nanofabricated Paddle Bridges for Resonant Sensing", Review of Scientific Instruments 77(7) 3301-3309, 2006. |
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Garcia, G., Nam, Y. and Lobontiu, N.
"Design, Modeling, and Initial Experiments on Microscale Amplification Device", Journal of Intelligent Material, Systems, and Structures 16(12) 1039-1049, 2005. |
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Lobontiu, N. and Garcia, E.
"Two Microcantilever Designs: Modeling for Static Deflection and Modal Analysis", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 13(1) 41-50, 2004. |
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Garcia, E., Sater, J. and Main, J.
"Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (EHPA): A Program Summary", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Special Issue on Wearable Robotics invited contribution 20(8) 822-826, 2002. |
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Hurst, A. and Garcia, E.
"Towards Automated Landings of a Morphing UAV", 18th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, October 3-5, Ottawa, ON, 2007. |
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Reissman, T. and Garcia, E.
"Insect Cyborgs: A New Frontier in Flight Control Systems", Smart Structures and Materials 2007: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, March 18-22, San Diego, CA., published in: Proc. SPIE 6525(65250N), 2007. |
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Dietl, J. and Garcia, E.
"Ornithopter Flight Stabilization", Smart Structures and Materials 2007: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, March 18-22, San Diego, CA., published in: Proc. SPIE 6525(65250K), 2007. |
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Manzo, J. and Garcia, E.
"Evolutionary Flight and Enabling Smart Actuator Devices", Smart Structures and Materials 2007: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, March 18-22, San Diego, CA. published in: Proc. SPIE 6525(65250L), 2007. | |
| Biography |
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Dr. Garcia served as a Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1998 to 2002. His programs involved the development of new types of actuation systems utilizing smart material transducers, system level demonstrations of smart structures applied to defense platforms, morphing aircraft systems and the development of exoskeletons for human performance augmentation. Dr. Garcia has pursued interdisciplinary research in the development of novel electro-mechanical systems, including smart material based actuators for optical systems controls and piezoelectric motor development. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Garcia was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he was Director of the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics and the Smart Structures Laboratory. In this capacity he directed research in the areas of smart structures, control-structure interaction, and bio-inspired robotics. From 1991-97, he owned and operated Garman Systems, Inc., (now Dynamic Structures and Materials, LLC) a small engineering corporation that designed and fabricated devices in the areas of adaptive structural systems, utilizing piezoelectric, electrostrictive and shape memory alloy materials. In 1995, Dr. Garcia was named an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, appointed a 1993 Presidential Faculty Fellow by President Clinton, and twice received Summer Faculty Fellowship awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (’90,’91). In 1995, he was named “Most Promising Scientist,” by Hispanic Engineer magazine (now Technica) and received this award at the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). His research has been supported by NSF, ARO, AFRL, NASA LaRC, NASA MSFC, ONR, CIA, NRO and industry. Dr. Garcia is author of more than 140 articles, book chapters and edited volumes. He serves on the ASME Aerospace Division’s Executive Committee and as on the Editorial Advisory Board to Smart Materials and Structures. In 2002, Professor Garcia received the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Adaptive Structures Prize for “significant contributions to the sciences and technologies associated with adaptive structures and/or materials systems. |
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Education |
| Ph.D. |
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State University of New York at Buffalo | | |
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