Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Education  

Columbia University, EngScD 1985   
Princeton University, MSE 1973   
Columbia University, BS 1970 

Books    

Ian S. Fischer, Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics CRC Press, LLC., 1999, ISBN 0-8493-9115-6. 

Current Research Interests    

Design of spatial mechanisms, dual-number mechanics, mechanical aspects of robotics   

Kinematics and the design of mechanisms. Dual-number coordinate-transformation methods are being developed to analyze displacements, velocities, statics and dynamics of complex spatial mechanisms.

Selected Publications    

Ian S. Fischer “The Planar Mechanism as a Special Case in the Automatic Computation of Static Equilibrium”  Mechanics Research Communications July 2008 v.35 n.5 pp.320-329.

Ian S. Fischer “Static Equilibrium of Spatial Mechanisms with Cylindrical Joints” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design June 2008 v.130 n.6 pp.062305-1-9.

Ian S. Fischer “Static Analysis of Mechanisms with Ball Joints” Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines April 2008 v.35 no.2 pp.129-149.

Ian S. Fischer “Static Forces and Torques in Mechanisms with Plane Joints, with Application to the Tractra Coupling” IME Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics, Part K, December 2007 (v.221, n.K4) pp.599-614. 

Ian S. Fischer “Velocity Analysis of Mechanisms with Ball Joints” Mechanics Research Communications, v.30, n.1 pp.69-78, February 2003.   

Ian S. Fischer "Numerical Analysis of Displacements in Spatial Mechanisms with Ball Joints" Mechanisms and Machine Theory, v.30, n.1, pp.69-78, February 2003.   

Ian S. Fischer “Computation of Velocity in the Plane Joint with Application to the Tracta Coupling” IME Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics, Part K, v.216, n.3, pp.263-270, September 2002.   

Ian S. Fischer "Joint-Link Parameter Assignment in Mechanisms and Robotics" International Journal of Engineering Education, v.28, n.3, pp.227-245, July 2000.  

Ian S. Fischer “A Geometric Method for Determining Joint Rotations in the Inverse Kinematics of Robotic Manipulators” Journal of Robotic Systems v.17, n.2, pp.107-117, February 2000.   

Ian S. Fischer "Modeling the Plane Joint" ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, v.121, n.3, pp.383-386, September 1999.   

Ian S. Fischer "Numerical Analysis of Displacements in a Tracta Coupling" Engineering with Computers, v.15, n.4, pp.334-344, 1999.   

Ian S. Fischer “Intermediate-Joint Displacements in the Myard Constant-Velocity Coupling” Industrial Mathematics, v.49, part 2, pp.55-68, 1999.   

Ian S. Fischer, "Dual Angle and Axis of a Screw Motion" Mechanisms and Machine Theory, v.33, n.3, pp.331-340, April 1998.     

Rajesh N. Dave, Ian S. Fischer, Jonathan Luke, Robert Pfeffer and Anthony D. Rosato "Particle Technology Concentration at NJIT: An NSF-CRCD Program" Chemical Engineering Education, v.32, n.2, pp. 102-107, Spring 1998.   

Rajesh N. Dave, Anthony Rosato and Ian S. Fischer "Non-Intrusive Particle Tracking System for Particulate Flows and Vibrated Granular Beds" Particulate Science and Technology, v.17, n.1-2, pp. 125-139, January-June 1999.   

Ian S. Fischer and Johannes K. de Waal, "Experimental Study of Cardan-Joint Dynamics" ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, v.117, n.4, pp.526-531, December 1995.   

Ian S. Fischer "Dynamics of the Ideal Wobble-Plate Mechanism" Journal of Applied Mechanisms & Robotics, v.2, n.3, pp.1-6, July 1995.   

I.S. Fischer and P.M. Remington, "Errors in Constant-Velocity Shaft Couplings," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, v.116, pp.204-209, March 1994.     

I.S. Fischer, ed., chapter 12, "Applications", Modern Kinematics: Developments in the Last Forty Years, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp. 521-574, 1993.     

I.S. Fischer, "A Complete Notation for Dual Velocity," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol.114, pp. 263-268, June 1992.     

I.S. Fischer and R.N. Paul, "Kinematic Displacements in a Double-Cardan-Joint Drive Shaft," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 13, pp. 263-271, September 1991.     

I.S. Fischer and F. Freudenstein, "Internal Force and Moment Transmission in a Cardan Joint with Manufacturing Tolerances," ASME Journal of Mechanisms, Transmissions and Automation in Design, v.106, pp.301-311, September 1984.

Awards and Honors    

Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence (NJIT Alumni Association, 1996).   

George A Wood Award (National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 1995).