Mitchell Rushton
BASc, MASc, PhD, PEng
Assistant Professor
Department of Automotive and Mechatronics Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Contact information
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5
Office: ENG 3023
905.721.8668 ext. 3643
905.721.3370 (fax)
Research topics
- Robotics
- Vibration Control
- Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
- Continuum Robots
Education
- PhD (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering), University of Waterloo, 2022
- Certificate in University Teaching, University of Waterloo, 2020
- MASc (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering), University of Waterloo, 2016
- BASc (Mechatronics Engineering), University of Waterloo, 2013
Publications and presentations
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Selected publications and presentations
- Rushton, M., & Khajepour, A. (2022). An atlas-based approach to planar variable-structure cable-driven parallel robot configuration-space representation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2), 1594-1606.
- Rushton, M., & Khajepour, A. (2021). Planar variable structure cable-driven parallel robots for circumventing obstacles. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 13(2), 021011.
- Rushton, M., Jamshidifar, H., & Khajepour, A. (2019). Multiaxis reaction system (MARS) for vibration control of planar cable-driven parallel robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 35(4), 1039-1046.
- Rushton, M. (2025, June). On the Design of Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robots for Full Coverage of Non-convex Installation Spaces with Holes. In International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (pp. 274-285). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.