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Sonia Roberts

Sonia Roberts

ESE, PhD '21 - Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University

Sonia is an Electrical and Systems Engineering PhD student in Kod*lab. She is studying legged locomotion in fragile environments such as sand, rubble piles, or dense vegetation.Sonia graduated received her Bachelor’s in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 2010, where she worked under Professor John Long in building and experimenting with biologically inspired robots to test hypotheses about biomechanics and evolutionary biology. She also worked briefly for Professor Nancy Ide on a natural language processing project.Prior to coming to UPenn, Sonia worked as a research technician on the Fly Olympiad Project at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus attempting to create a functional map of the Drosophila melanogaster brain.

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Publications

Algorithm Transparency through the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)​

Publisher Journal of Science Policy and Governance

Mechanical and virtual compliance for robot locomotion in a compliant world

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Mitigating energy loss in a robot hopping on a physically emulated dissipative substrate

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Reactive velocity control reduces energetic cost of jumping with a virtual leg spring on simulated granular media

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

RHex Slips on Granular Media

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Dan Koditschek

Alfred Fitler Moore Professor, ESE


Sonia Roberts