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Manchester accepts Stanford faculty job

July 22, 2017

Our postdoc, Zac Manchester, has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Stanford in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Congrats, Zac!

Papers accepted to RSS 2017 and IROS 2017!

June 14, 2017

Our RSS paper on robust direct trajectory optimization can be found here.

A pre-print (comments welcome!) of our IROS paper on constrained UDP can be found...

RSS 2017 Workshop on Challenges in Dynamic Legged Locomotion: Design, Modeling, Estimation, and Control

March 27, 2017

Check out our upcoming Workshop on Legged Locomotion @ RSS on July 15, 2017: https://leggedrobotlocomotion.wordpress.com/

We have an incredible list of speakers lined up and we are soliciting poster abstracts (deadline: May 30, 2017). Please consider participating!

Scott received faculty research awards from both Google and Sony to continue our work on trajectory optimization

February 15, 2017

We completed our first round of wind tunnel tests on our perching UAV prototype

December 6, 2016

More details can be found in our upcoming AIAA SciTech paper.

Paper accepted to CDC 2016

August 18, 2016

Check out our new paper entitled "Derivative-Free Trajectory Optimization with Unscented Dynamic Programming" here!

Zac Manchester joins Starshot Advisory Committee

April 14, 2016

Our postdoc, Zachary Manchester, will serve on the Advisory Committee for project Starshot led by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking (http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/News/4). Go Zac!

Paper accepted to ICRA 2016

January 20, 2016

Our paper entitled "Optimization and Stabilization of Trajectories for Constrained Dynamical Systems" was accepted to ICRA 2016. PDF and video here.

Our DRC codebase is now open-source!

January 14, 2016

Check out the Open Humanoids Project here: https://github.com/openhumanoids/oh-distro

New robotics course @ Harvard in Spring 2016

August 20, 2015

Scott will be teaching a new course entitled CS 284: Optimization Algorithms for Robotics in Spring 2016. Harvard students interested in taking it can find the syllabus in the course catalog.

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Mark Petersen selected for an NDSEG Fellowship

March 29, 2019

Congrats, Mark!

Research highlight: Ten Robotics Technologies of 2018

January 20, 2019

Our collaborative work on exosuit control optimization was highlighted as one of the Ten Robotics Technologies of the year by Science Robotics. Read more about Research highlight: Ten Robotics Technologies of 2018

Two WAFR papers accepted

September 18, 2018

...on parallel differential dynamic programming on a GPU and nonlinear state estimation with... Read more about Two WAFR papers accepted

Congratulations on recent faculty hires from our lab!

May 30, 2018

Both of our current postdocs have accepted tenure-track faculty positions:

Ye Zhao has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech starting January 2019
Myunghee Kim has accepted a position of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago starting July 2018

Congratulations!

RSS 2018 paper accepted

May 20, 2018

Check out our RSS 2018 paper entitled "Contact-Implicit Optimization of Locomotion Trajectories for a Quadrupedal Microrobot."

There's also a video summary here.

Open postdoc position related to manipulation

April 7, 2018

We invite applications for a postdoctoral fellow position focused on developing algorithms for dynamic manipulation. This project will afford the candidate a great deal of intellectual flexibility to explore combinations of model-based control with machine learning to enable fast and precise manipulation. More details here! Read more about Open postdoc position related to manipulation

Brian Plancher wins NSF GSRP Fellowship

April 3, 2018

Congratulations, Brian!

Harvard Gazette article

January 24, 2018

Check out this article in today's Harvard Gazette highlighting the diverse and exciting robotics research happening at SEAS! Read more about Harvard Gazette article