External links
- Barton Research Group
- Kira Barton publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Kira L. Barton is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns the applications of control theory to the coordination of multi-agent and autonomous robot systems, including in additive manufacturing. Her work has also involved the development of a digital twin framework for smart manufacturing. [1] She is a professor of mechanical engineering, professor of robots, and Miller Faculty Scholar at the University of Michigan. [2]
Barton majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, graduating in 2001. She continued her studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she received a master's degree in 2006 and completed her Ph.D. in 2010, [2] [3] under the supervision of Andrew G. Alleyne. [4]
She joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2011. [3]
Barton was a 2015 recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, [5] and in 2015 became the inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. [6] She was the 2017 recipient of the biennial Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Dynamic Systems & Control Division. [7]
She was named as an ASME Fellow in 2024. [8]
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