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Nandagopal Vidhu

Nandagopal Vidhu

Robotics MSE

I’m a Robotics MSE student (class of 2027) and a member of xLAB, advised by Rahul Mangharam. My research develops learning-to-optimize (L2O) methods for planning and control of wheeled-legged quadrupeds. Before Penn, I studied mechanical engineering at IIT Bombay, where I worked on autonomous underwater vehicles and published on additive manufacturing, and spent three years at Jaguar Land Rover as an automotive systems engineer. My goal is to work on motion planning for physical AI: planners fast enough for hardware and general enough for the messy, contact-rich world robots actually operate in.

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