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| Hunter G. McClelland | |
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| Ph.D. Candidate in Mech. Engr. | |
Hunter McClelland is a Mechanical Engineering Doctoral Candidate in RoMeLa, having joined the lab in August 2011. His primary research interests are in design of nonlinear and "nontraditional" control of mechanical systems, especially with underactuated or hybrid dynamics. He is passionate about legged robotic systems, a perfect area in which to explore new control approaches for interesting systems.
Before coming to Virginia Tech, Hunter earned a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working in the Marine Robotics Lab under Prof. John J. Leonard in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). His M.S. thesis, titled "Using Negative Information in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping" (SLAM) is published and available on request. While at MIT, he was a bartender at the Thirsty Ear Pub, a member of the Ashdown Graduate Dorm Government (AHEC), a leader in the Grad. Assoc. of Mechanical Engineers (GAME), and a volunteer windsurfing instructor.
He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University (TTU), where he co-founded and co-captained the Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC), competing in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). In 2009, Hunter's final year, the team achieved a 14th place finish, out of 44 teams. He was also a leader in the Assoc. Scholars Guild, the founder of the TTU Pickup Soccer group, and a student tutor for the ME Dept and Minority Affairs Office.
Besides research, Hunter enjoys social activities of all types, working with technology (especially unix/computing), and a wide variety of athletic/outdoors activities, a few of which are pictured below.
Please feel free to contact by email: hgm@vt.edu