Eric Barnett
Papers
11
Total Citations
386
H-Index
8
About
Eric Barnett is a leading researcher in the field of cable-suspended parallel robots (CSPRs) and advanced manufacturing, whose work has fundamentally expanded the capabilities of these systems. His primary contributions lie in dynamic trajectory planning, enabling CSPRs to operate far beyond their static workspaces—a critical breakthrough for applications like large-scale 3D printing. His most influential work, "Large-scale 3D printing with a cable-suspended robot" (2015), has garnered over 200 citations, demonstrating its foundational impact on the field. Barnett developed novel point-to-point and periodic trajectory techniques for six-degree-of-freedom CSPRs, allowing them to reach a series of poses with zero endpoint velocity, and pioneered time-optimal trajectory planning for paths with discontinuities. Beyond CSPRs, he has made notable contributions to robot-assisted rapid prototyping, including path planning for ice structures and surface mapping feedback for dimensional error minimization. His work on a three-DOF CSPR with a parallelogram cable arrangement has been experimentally validated, further solidifying his reputation as a key innovator in making cable-driven robots practical for real-world, large-scale additive manufacturing.
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Top Papers
- 1Large-scale 3D printing with a cable-suspended robot204 citations · 2015
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- 6PATH PLANNING FOR ROBOT-ASSISTED RAPID PROTOTYPING OF ICE STRUCTURES13 citations · 2009
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- 9The design of an integrated system for rapid prototyping with ice8 citations · 2013
- 10Surface mapping feedback for robot-assisted rapid prototyping7 citations · 2011