- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-5032
- Email: gthomas@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 110
- Website: Research Webpage
- Linkedin: LinkedIn Profile
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin — 2019
- B.S., Engineering: Robotics, Olin College of Engineering — 2012
Research Interests
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- Human Strength Amplification
- Wearable Robotics
- Force and Torque Feedback
- Series-Elastic Actuators
- System Identification for Robust Control
- Mechanical Impedance Rendering
Awards & Honors
- IEEE ICRA Best Manipulation Paper Award - 2017
- IJHR Best Paper Award - 2016
- NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship - 2015
- DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge Winner (Team IHMC) - 2013
Selected Publications
- Hsu, Ting-Wei, Robert D. Gregg, and Gray C. Thomas. "Robustification of Bayesian-Inference-Based Gait Estimation for Lower-limb Wearable Robots." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9, no. 3 (2024): 2104-2111
- Bons, Zachary, Gray C. Thomas, Luke Mooney, et. al., "An Energy-Dense Two-Part Torsion Spring Architecture and Design Tool." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2023).
- Thomas, Gray C., Orion Campbell, Nick Nichols, et. al., "Formulating and deploying strength amplification controllers for lower-body walking exoskeletons." Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8 (2021): 720231
- Thomas, Gray Cortright, Joshua S. Mehling, James Holley, et. al., "Phase-relaxed-passive full state feedback gain limits for series elastic actuators." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 26, no. 1 (2020): 586-591
- Thomas, Gray Cortright, and Luis Sentis. "Quadric Inclusion Programs: An LMI Approach to H-Model Identification." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 64, no. 10 (2019): 4229-4236.