Avik De
PhD, ESE '17- Adjunct Associate Professor, ESE; Chief Science Officer, Ghost Robotics
Avik is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UPenn ESE department, and the Chief Science Officer at Ghost Robotics. In these roles, his goal is to produce research in robotics and AI that advances our conceptual understanding but can also be of immediate utility in the real world. He has received a Ph.D. and postdoc in the areas of bio-inspired design and control, and applied these methods to platforms ranging from a 100mg RoboBee to a 50kg rugged quadrupedal Vision 60. He is currently researching how modelling and dynamical systems methods can be integrated with reinforcement learning and AI world models to develop safe, reliable, and efficient robotic systems.
Research Areas
- Legged Locomotion
- Manipulation
- Reinforcement Learning
- Autonomy
- Machine Learning
Research Groups
Startups
Publications
Task-Based Control and Design of a BLDC Actuator for Robotics
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Analytically-Guided Design of a Tailed Bipedal Hopping Robot
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Sensor-based legged robot homing using range-only target localization
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Design Principles for a Family of Direct-Drive Legged Robots
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Frontal plane stabilization and hopping with a 2dof tail
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Towards bipedal behavior on a quadrupedal platform using optimal control
Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Averaged Anchoring of Decoupled Templates in a Tail-Energized Monoped
Publisher International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)
Parallel composition of templates for tail-energized planar hopping
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Tail-assisted rigid and compliant legged leaping
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
The Penn Jerboa: A Platform for Exploring Parallel Composition of Templates
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
News
Student News
“Ghost Robotics’ Minitaur Demonstrates Impressive New Skills” in IEEE Spectrum
February 28, 2017
Alumni
Research Areas
- Legged Locomotion
- Manipulation
- Reinforcement Learning
- Autonomy
- Machine Learning