21. PRINCIPAL LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (90)
1979 Keynote Lecture to establish the National Manufacturing Studies Board under the
Auspices of The National Research Council and the Assembly of Engineering,
Washington, D.C.
1979 Report to the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives of the
United States Congress, “Economic and Technical Factors Associated With
Manufacturing and Our Weakening Trade Position,” 238 pages, April 1, 1979.
1979 Hearing Testimony to the U.S. Congress House of Representatives Sub-Committee on
Science and Technology on the National Science and Technology Act of 1979 (H.R.
4672), The Congressional Record, August 1, 1979.
1980 Plenary Session Speech, Annual Chemical Engineering Society Meeting, Chicago, IL
Lecture series to 12 research institutes in Russia Sponsored by the Russian Academy of
Sciences. (Host: Academician K. Frolov).
1980 Testimony to the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives,
“National Foundation Act of 1980,”(HR 6910), September 17, 1980.
1982 Plenary Session of the ASEE Annual Meeting, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas.
Lecture Series to various agencies and technical groups in Australia, sponsored by the
Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Keynote Lecture Entitled: "Next Generation Robotic Technology for Manufacturing and
Human Augmentation," ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.
1982 Testimony on the National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982, (H.R.
5254). D. Tesar, Science and Technology Committee of the House, April 27, 1982.
1982 Testimony on Robotics, D. Tesar, House Science and Tech.Committee, June 2, 1982.
1983 Keynote Lecture on Robotics to the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers, Bozeman, Montana.
Keynote Lectures on Next Generation Robotics, IBM Workshop in Europe, Munich,
Germany.
Keynote Lecture for the International Conference of Robotics and Intelligent Machines,
Tampa, Florida.
1984 Keynote Lecture to the Conference on Robotics in Automation, The University of North
Carolina, Charlotte.
1985 Keynote and Banquet Presentations, International Conference on CAD/CAM, Tucson, AZ
Banquet Manufacturing Policy, MCC, Austin, Texas.
Keynote on Mechanical Technology for Space Robotics, First AIAA/NASA/USAF
Symposium on Automation and Robotics for the National Space Program.
1986 Workshop on Competitiveness Sponsored by Senator G. Hart and the Center for a New
Democracy, Dallas, Texas.
Briefing on Robotics for SDI presented to Senator P. Gramm, General A. Abramson and
Chancellor Hans Mark.
Distinguished Lecture Series, the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M
University.
1987 The Problem and Proposed Solution to our Weakening Economic Condition in Civil
Sector Manufacturing, D. Texas, Presented to the Congressional Task Force on
Technology, The U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., March 11, 1987.
Briefing to Senator L. Bentsen on National Policy for Civil Sector Manufacturing.
Briefing to Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Robert A. Costello, on Tech Base
Priorities for Logistics Policy.
Briefing to Chancellor H. Mark, The University of Texas System, on the proposed
National Logistics Research Center.
Briefing to Maj. General Lewis G. Curtis, Commander, San Antonio Air Logistics Center
and his staff, Kelly AFB on Space Robotics Technology and SDI.
1988 Luncheon Presentation to the First JSC-AIAA Sponsored Robotics Workshop, Houston,
Texas, on Space Robotics Development.
U.S.
Briefing to the Swedish Government Panel on Industrial Policy, Stockholm, Sweden, on
Manufacturing Policy.
Keynote of 3-day Workshop on Robotics at the Technical University of Linkoping,
Sweden, on Three Future Generations of Robotics Development.
Keynote Lecturer, SOAR '88 Robotics for Space Operation Conference, Dayton, Ohio,
sponsored by U.S. Air Force.
Keynote Address on "The Super Robot" at 50th Anniversary Celebration of the
Mechanical Systems Research Institute of Moscow, USSR.
Five-Hour Tutorial on robotics technology to key researchers of the Mechanical Systems
Research Institute of Moscow, USSR.
1989 3-Hour tutorial at 3rd Annual Space Operations Automation & Robotics Workshop
(SOAR '89) at NASA-JSC, Houston, Texas.
Keynote presentation to the Satellite Servicing Working Group of NASA-JSC.
1990 A Comparative Analysis of National Programs for Robotics in Japan, Europe, Russia and
the U.S., D. Tesar, Presented to The Democratic Caucus of the U.S. House of
Representatives, September 12, 1990.
1991 Tutorial on "Modular Architecture for Robot Structures" at 1991 International
Conference on Robotics and Automation sponsored by IEEE, Sacramento, California,
April 1991.
Course Program for Automation and Robotics, Monterey System of Technical
Universities, Mexico City.
Testimony on the Department of Energy Science and Technology Partnership Act,
presented to the Senate Subcommittee for Energy, U.S. Senate, July 31, 1991.
Keynote presentation, "Four-Level Fault Tolerance-Manipulator Design for Space
Operations," Workshop on Automation and Robotics '91, Johnson Space Center,
Houston, Texas, March 1991.
Presentation of tutorial on "Modular Architecture for Robot Structures" at 1991
International Conference on Robotics and Automation sponsored by IEEE, Sacramento,
California, April 1991.
Keynote "Manufacturing Challenges in a Changing World," 1991 meeting of American
Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1991.
1992 Course Program for Automation and Robotics, Monterrey System of Technical
Universities, Mexico City.
1993 Keynote lecture on Cost/Benefit of Remote Maintenance Technology in Nuclear Reactor
Operations, Moscow Machine Institute, at the establishment of the Institute for Industrial
Safety.
Completed Course Program for Automation and Robotics, Monterrey System of
Technical Universities, Mexico City.
Presentation on Sustainable Development in U.S. Manufacturing, International Seminar
on the Role of Applied Science & Technology for a Sustainable Society at the University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 1993.
Briefing on Application of Advanced Robotics to ER&WM, ORNL, December 1993.
1994 Keynote lecture on Advanced Intelligent Machines in Manufacturing, Third International
Conference on Systems Integration, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1994.
1995 Tesar, D. and Chladek, J., "Advanced Development for Space Robotics with
Emphasis on Fault Tolerance" Plenary Report to Aerospace Mechanisms
Conference, NASA Johnson Space Center, May 1995.
Tesar, D., Kapoor, C. and Hooper, R., "Advanced Digital Control Technology for
Precision Machines (Robots) in Manufacturing," Plenary Presentation, ISMCR
‘95, 5th International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics,
Bratislava, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, June 12-16, 1995.
1996 Tesar, D., “Continuum for Advanced Machine Operation,” Plenary Address to The 1996
ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, August 18 - 21, 1996, University of
California, Irvine.
1997 Plenary presentation, workshop on precision machines in manufacturing, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China, August 1997.
1999 Robotics Expert Forum paneled by D. Tesar, 10th World Congress on the Theory of
Machines and Mechanisms, Oulu, Finland, June 1999.
2000 “Criteria Based Actuator Control,” Scott, E., Cox, D., and Tesar, D., Fourth World
Automation Congress (WAC 2000), 8th International Symposium on Robotics with
Applications, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, June 2000.
“Open Architecture Robotics Technology For Space,” D. Tesar, ATWG Conference,
NASA- Langley, November 3, 2000.
2001 “Human Scale Intelligent Mechanical Systems,” D. Tesar, Plenary speech for IEEE
conference on Intelligent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2001.
“Meeting Human Needs While Reducing Human Drudgery,” D. Tesar, Plenary speech
for IEEE conference on Intelligent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2001.
“Robotics and Automation,” D. Tesar, lecture to faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Techick 2, Brno, The Czech Republic, October 2001.
2002 “Human Scale Intelligent Mechanical Systems,” D. Tesar, Invited lecture, Russian
Institute of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, July 2002.
“Human Scale Intelligent Mechanical Systems,” Invited lecture, Schlumberger, Paris,
France, September 2002.
2003 “Miniaturized Surgical Systems for the Operating Room of the Future,” Invited Briefing,
DARPA, Washington, D.C., USA, May 2003.
“The Future of Robotics,” Invited lecture, Practro-Robotic Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria,
June 2003.
2004 “Human Scale Intelligent Mechanical System,” Plenary, 11th World Congress in
Mechanism and Machine Science, Tianjin, China, April 2004.
“Presentation on The Technology Base For Mechanical Engineering,” Conference on
Machines and Robotics, Krakow, Poland, October 2004.
2005 “Open Architecture Manufacturing Systems,” Plenary Presentation, Conference
On Innovation in Manufacturing Processes, Seoul, Korea, September 29, 2005.
“The Future of Open Architecture for Mechanical Systems,” WAC 2006,
Budapest, Hungary, July 24-27, 2006.
2006
“Technical Developments In Robotics,” Technical University of Bratislava, Bratislava,
Slovakia, July 28, 2006.
“The Future of the Discipline of Mechanical engineering,” Josef Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 31, 2006.
“A New Wave of Machine Technology For Defense Applications,” Defense Science
Board, September 7, 2006.
2008 “The Development of a Class of Modular, Dexterous Manipulator Structures For High
Accuracy Manufacturing Cells,” Plenary, ICSMA 2008, Seoul, Korea, April 8-12, 2008.
“Next Wave of Technology by Mining the Central Core of Mechanical Engineering,”
Plenary Presentation, IFToMM Conference, Liberec, Czech Republic, September 2008.
“The Need for Electro-Mechanical Actuators on Military and Commercial Aircraft”, D.
Tesar, Keynote, WAC 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii, Sept. 28-October 2, 2008.
2009 “New Approach to Mechanical Engineering as a Discipline,” Mechanics 09, Svratka, The
Czech Republic, May 12, 2009.
“New Wave of Technology: Open Architecture in Mechanical Systems,” D. Tesar,
Keynote, Seoul National University, Korea, June 1, 2009.
“New Wave of Technology: Precision Modular Mechanical Systems,” D. Tesar, Seoul
National University, Korea, June 2, 2009.
“New Wave of Technology: Intelligent Mechanical Systems,” D. Tesar, Hanyang
University, Korea, June 4, 2009.
2010 “Tech Base for Revitalization of Mechanical Engineering,” D. Tesar to DARPA director
Dr. R. Dugan, January 19, 2010.
“Tech Base for Automobiles,” Dr. Tesar to Central Engineering, Seoul, Korea,
July 28, 2010.
2011
Tech Base for Battlefield Systems and Vehicles, Briefing to Dr. Malcom O’Neill,
ASAALT, ($42 bill/year responsibility for Army development and acquisition),
Pentagon, D.C., March 2, 2011.
Required Research for Battlefield Vehicles, Briefing to Dr. Marilyn Freeman,
Director of Army R&D ($12 billion/year R&D), Pentagon, D.C., August 2011.
Four major workshops, Open Architecture Manufacturing of Electro-mechanical Systems
(OAM/EMS), DARPA study project, Mar.9,10, June 8,9, Sept. 13,14 , Nov. 9, 10, 2011.
2012 Briefing to Dr. G. Bochenek, CTO at AMC, “Next Generation Battlefield Vehicle
Demonstrators, Concentration on Power Utilization “, Huntsville, AL, August 21, 2012
2013 Keynote Presentation, Next Wave of Technology: Built On Core of Mechanical
Engineering, International Symposium on Ground Vehicles, U. of AL, Birmingham,
Sept.8-11, 2013.
2014 Keynote Presentation, WAC 2014 Kona, Hawaii,k Next wave of Technology: Built On
Core of Mechanical Engineering, August 3-7, 2014.
2015 Plenary Speaker, Track 4, Dynamics, Vibrations, and Control, IOMECE ASME Winter
Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 13-19.
Keynote Lecture Society of Design Process Science (SDPS), “Meeting Human Needs by
Leveraging the Next Wave of Technology,” November 2-4, 2015.
2016 Keynote Lecture, World Automation Conference, conference dedicated to my life’s
work, “The Future of Open Architecture Rehabilitation/Orthotics Systems”, WAC2016,
August 1-3, 2016.