Mark W. Spong (born November 5, 1952 in Warren, Ohio) is an American roboticist. He is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He served as Dean of the Jonsson School and the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering from 2008-2017. Before he joined UTD, he was the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Research Professor of Coordinated Science Laboratory and Information Trust Ins*ute, and Director of Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Spong is a Life Fellow of the Ins*ute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including

• the 2020 Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• the 2018 Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society
• the 2016 Nyquist Lecture Prize from the Dynamical Systems and Control Division of the ASME
• the 2007 IROS Fumio Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
• the O. Hugo Schuck Award in 2002 and 2009 from the American Automatic Control Council
• the 2004 John R. Ragazzini Award from the American Automatic Control Council
• the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

Spong received his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Hiram College in 1975, a M.S. in Mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1977, and a M.S. and D.Sc. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and 1981, respectively.

Publications

• 2015, P*ivity-Based Control in Networked Robotics, with Takeshi Hatanaka, Nikhil Chopra, and Masayuki Fujita
• 2007. The Reaction Wheel Pendulum, with D. J. Block and K. J. Astrom
• 2006. Robot modeling and control. with S. Hutchinson and M. Vidyasagar
• 1993. Robot control:: dynamics, motion planning, and *ysis with F.L. Lewis and C.T. Abdallah (ed.)
• 1989. Robot dynamics and control. with M. Vidyasagar

External links

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