External links
- Barton Research Group
- Kira Barton publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Kira L. Barton is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns the applications of control theory to the coordination of multi-agent and autonomous robot systems, including in additive manufacturing. Her work has also involved the development of a digital twin framework for smart manufacturing. She is a professor of mechanical engineering, professor of robots, and Miller Faculty Scholar at the University of Michigan.
She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2001 where she majored in mechanical engineering. She continued her studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she received a master's degree in 2006 and completed her Ph.D. in 2010, under the supervision of Andrew G. Alleyne.
She joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2011.She is currently a professor in the robotics and mechanical department of the University of Michigan. She is the associate director of the automotive research center, which is a center that specializes in the modeling and simulation of civilian and military ground systems.
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