David Wang

Professor

Contact InformationDavid Wang

Phone: 519-888-4567 x33968
Location: E3 4108

Biography Summary

David Wang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is cross-appointed to the Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. He was previously the President of Handshake Interactive Technologies Inc., a UWaterloo spin-off company founded by Professor Wang.

His research interests include robot manipulators, nonlinear control, flexible link manipulators, automated mechatronics design, haptics, telehaptics and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Research Interests

  • Robotics
  • Control
  • Haptics
  • SMAs
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Mechatronics
  • Vibration control
  • Mechatronics
  • Robot manipulators
  • Flexible link manipulators
  • Automated mechatronics design
  • Telehaptics
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Robotics

Education

  • 1989, Doctorate, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo
  • 1986, Master's, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo
  • 1984, Bachelor's, Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan

Courses*

  • ECE 190 - Engineering Profession and Practice
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • ECE 488 - Multivariable Control Systems
    • Taught in 2019
  • ECE 682 - Multivariable Control Systems
    • Taught in 2020
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Tribou, Michael J and Wang, David WL and Waslander, Steven L, Degenerate motions in multicamera cluster SLAM with non-overlapping fields of view, Image and Vision Computing, 50, 2016, 27 - 41
  • Tribou, Michael J and Harmat, Adam and Wang, David WL and Sharf, Inna and Waslander, Steven L, Multi-camera parallel tracking and mapping with non-overlapping fields of view, The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2015
  • Daly, John M and Wang, David WL, Time-Delayed Output Feedback Bilateral Teleoperation With Force Estimation for-DOF Nonlinear Manipulators, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 22(1), 2014, 299 - 306
  • Daly, John M and Wang, David WL, Time-Delayed Output Feedback Bilateral Teleoperation With Force Estimation for-DOF Nonlinear Manipulators, Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on, 22(1), 2014, 299 - 306
  • Tribou, Michael J and Waslander, Steven L and Wang, David WL, Scale recovery in multicamera cluster SLAM with non-overlapping fields of view, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 126, 2014, 53 - 66

Graduate Studies