Dr. Schwall specializes in accident reconstruction and also analyzes the design of consumer and industrial products. Dr. Schwall has reconstructed on- and off-road accidents involving cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, bicycles, and pedestrians. His design and failure analysis investigations have included automotive and bicycle components, medical devices, small appliances, computer hardware, and cranes. He also has experience with intellectual property litigation.
Dr. Schwall is trained in the download and analysis of electronic crash module data. He also has experience modeling and testing airbags and airbag controllers, as well as experimentally identifying vehicle tire and suspension properties.
Dr. Schwall has a background in dynamics, controls, and signal processing and has worked in the automotive industry in both Michigan and Germany. Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Schwall held research and teaching positions at Stanford University, where his research focused on probabilistic diagnostics of automotive dynamics and included the development of an improved method for decision analysis. He assisted in the teaching of courses on vehicle dynamics and system identification.
Schwall M, Gerdes JC. Automotive diagnostic decisions using probabilistic information. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2005), Orlando FL, November 2005.
Schwall M, Gerdes J C. Residual autocorrelation in probabilistic model-based diagnostics. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2005), Orlando FL, November 2005.
Schwall M. Dynamic integration of probabilistic information for diagnostics and decisions. Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford CA, September 2005.
Schwall M, Gerdes J C, Bäker B, Forchert T. A probabilistic vehicle diagnostic system using multiple models. 15th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.
Schwall M, Gerdes J C. A probabilistic approach to residual processing for vehicle fault detection. 2002 American Controls Conference (ACC 2002), Anchorage, AK, June 2002.
Schwall M, Gerdes J C. Multi-modal diagnostics for vehicle fault detection. 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2001), New York, NY, November 2001.
Hayward R C, Gebre-Egziabher D, Schwall M, Powell J D, Wilson D. Inertially aided GPS based Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) for general aviation aircraft. 10th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GPS-97), Kansas City, MO, September 1997.