Professor Malcolm Good
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biography
Malcolm Good has been Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in the University of Melbourne since July 1989, and was Head of Department from 1992-1996.
He graduated BE (1962), MEngSc (1965) and PhD (1975) from this university. Prior to his current appointment he was Program Leader for Integrated Manufacture in the CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, and before that had a series of academic appointments at the University of Melbourne.
He has held visiting appointments at ISVR (University of Southampton), HSRI (University of Michigan), Cambridge University Engineering Department, and the Corporate Research and Development Center of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, NY. He has been President of the Australian Robot Association (1994-95), Australian Contact Person for the International Advanced Robotics Program (1988-94), and Interim Director of the Advanced Engineering Centre for Manufacturing (1992-93). Professor Good is a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Centre for Advanced By-Wire Technologies (RABiT), and Leader of the RABiT Vehicle Dynamics Program.
research interests
Professor Good’s research in RABiT represents a return to a field in which he has previously published widely: the dynamics and handling qualities of automobiles, heavy vehicles and motorcycles. This included work in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a variable characteristic, steer-by-wire automobile. In 1983 his attention turned to the dynamics and control of industrial robots and machine tools, resulting in an influential series of papers on the importance of joint compliance and nonlinearities in the modelling and control of manipulators. This experience also informs some of his current RABiT work on the control of electromechanical actuators. Since returning to the University in 1989, Professor Good’s research has encompassed force- and vision-controlled robotic manipulation, machine-tool dynamics and control, computer aids for concurrent engineering and scheduling, tailor-welded blank technology, vibration isolation and control and, most recently, by-wire braking and systems for hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Current projects and postgraduate supervision.
curriculum vitae
selected publications
GOOD, M.C. and JOUBERT, P.N. The form drag of two-dimensional bluff plates immersed in turbulent boundary layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 31: 547-582 (1968).
GOOD, M.C. Sensitivity of driver-vehicle performance to vehicle characteristics revealed in open-loop tests. Vehicle System Dynamics 6: 245-277 (1977).
GOOD, M.C., SWEET, L.M. and STROBEL, K.L. Dynamic models for control system design of integrated robot and drive systems. Trans. ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 107: 53-59 (1985).
STEPIEN, T.M., SWEET, L.M., GOOD, M.C. and TOMIZUKA, M. Control of tool/workpiece contact force with application to robotic deburring. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-3(1): 7-18 (1987).
CORKE,
P.I and GOOD, M.C. Dynamic effects in visual closed-loop systems. IEEE
Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 12(5): 671-683 (1996).