Theresa Honein
RESEARCH TEACHING
Current Projects
- Enabling Precise Payload Handling in Soft Robotics through Advanced Contact Mechanics: A Discrete Elastic Rod Framework for Rigid Payload Manipulation
- Modelling and Control of a Spherical Robot
- A Framework for Studying Human–Rigid Body Interaction Dynamics: A Case Study of Hula Hooping
Publications
| Publication Details | Video |
|---|---|
| 7. Chern, C. ; Honein, T.E. ; O'Reilly, O. M.: The Symphony of Gyrations Producing Steady Motions of a Hula Hoop: Insights from a Network Analysis. Submitted for publication (2026). | |
| 6. Honein, T.E. ; O'Reilly, O. M.: The Accessibility of a Hula Hoop: Insights from the Belyakov-Seyranian Model. Submitted for publication (2026). | No video available |
| 5. Honein, T.E. ; O'Reilly, O. M.: On the Dynamics of a Collapsing Set of Blocks. In: Acta Mechanica (2025). | |
| 4. Honein, T. E. ; O’Reilly, O. M.: On the Dynamics of Transporting Cylinders. In: Nonlinear Dynamics (2024). | |
| 3. Honein, T. E. ; O’Reilly, O. M.: Explorations of the holonomy of a rolling sphere. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A 480 (2024), Nr. 2282, 20230684. | |
| 2. Honein, T. E. ; O’Reilly, O. M.: The geometry of equations of motion: particles in equivalent universes. In: Nonlinear Dynamics 144 (2021), 2979–2994. | |
| 1. Honein, T. E. ; O’Reilly, O. M.: On the Gibbs-Appell Equations for the Dynamics of Rigid Bodies. In: Journal of Applied Mechanics 88 (2021), Nr. 7, 074501-074503. |
Conferences
Stanford/Berkeley Compfest,
December 2022 at Stanford University, CA, USA
NODYCON2025,
June 2025 at Stevens Institure of Technology, NJ, USA
ESMC2025,
July 2025 at Lyon Conference Center, France
In the Press
- Mention in Berkeley Engineering’s 2024 in review, December 2024: Berkeley Engineering’s 2024 in review: Nine of our most impactful stories
- Article in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Summer 2024: Ready to roll
- Article in Berkeley Engineering published on February 12, 2024: Researchers explore the phenomenon of holonomy