Manufacturing System: Computer integrated machinery; CAD/CAM; Electromechanical system design; Precision machinery; Coordinated Motion Generation .

Robotics: Design, Kinematics and dynamics of industrial robots: Robot motion simulation; Task planning; Grippers design.

Mechanical Design: Kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms; Large-scale mechanical system design; Machine tool vibration; Machine dynamics.

Selected Recent Publications:

Yang, D.C.H. and Tong, S.H., "Specific Flowrate of Deviation--Function Based Lobe Pumps—Derivation and Analysis," J. of Mechanism and Machine Theory 37(10), 1025–1042, 2002.

Yang, D.C.H., Chuang, J.J., and Oulee, T.H., "Boundary-Conformed Toolpath Generation for Trimmed Freeform Surfaces," Computer-Aided Design 35(2), 127–139, 2003.

Yang, D.C.H., Chuang, J.J., Han, Z., and Ding, S., "Boundary Conformed Toolpath Generation for Trimmed Freeform Surfaces via Coons Reparameterization," J. of Material Processing Technology 138(1–3), 138–144, 2003.

Chuang, J.J. and Yang, D.C.H.,"A Smooth Boundary-Blending Method for 2D Surface Parametrization," ASME J. of Mechanical Design 126, 327–335, 2004.

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