Rod Grupen is a professor of

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and director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the

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, Amherst. Grupen's research integrates

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, control, dynamical systems, learning, and development as a means of constructing

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. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal, conference, and workshop papers. Grupen is the co-editor-in-chief of the ''Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal'' and serves on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing'' (AI EDAM).UMass Amherst: Department of Computer Science
/ref> In 2010, Grupen received the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor bestowed on individuals for exemplary and extraordinary service to the University of Massachusetts. Grupen received both a B.S. in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

from

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and a B.A. in physics from

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in 1980, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from

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in 1984, and a Ph.D. in computer science from

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in 1988. Grupen is most recently the author of the book "The Developmental Organization of Dexterous Robot Behavior" to be published by

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in 2011.

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