MitchellPryor

Mitch Pryor
Research Professor

Research Areas
Research Interests

Applied robotics and automation; Robotics in hazardous environments, including nuclear, energy and defense

About

Since earning his Ph.D., Pryor has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the ME and ECE departments as well as led and conducted research in the area of applied robotics and automation with an emphasis on robotics in hazardous environments, including nuclear, energy and defense. He has worked for numerous research sponsors, including the Army Futures Command (AFC), NASA, DARPA, DOE-EM, Idaho National Lab (INL), Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Savannah River National Lab (SRNL), Y-12, and many industrial partners.

Pryor is a co-founder of the Nuclear Applied Robotics Group (NRG) and RAPID – an industry affiliate program supporting automation in the energy sector. Both are interdisciplinary research efforts to deploy robotics in hazardous, uncertain environments to perform manufacturing, material handling, mobile survey, mobile manipulation, and other tasks. He has been a member of ROS-Industrial, IEEE, ASME, PGE and ANS Professional Societies. He served as chair of the executive committee of the ANS Robotics Remote Systems Division.

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 1993

Select Awards & Honors

  • Fulbright Scholar Program (2022)

Select Publications

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