Dynamical Systems and Control

Robots are often complex systems that have require balance or modeling. Predicting the motion and controlling a robot to do things like jumping or throwing or colliding with things requires sophisticated dynamic systems modeling and control methods.

Faculty

Pratik Chaudhari

Assistant Professor, ESE

Eric Eaton

Research Associate Professor, CIS

Nadia Figueroa

Shalini and Rajeev Misra Presidential Assistant Professor, MEAM

Ethan Gordon

Postdoctoral Researcher, MEAM

Rachel Holladay

Asness Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MEAM

M. Ani Hsieh

Deputy Director, GRASP Lab; Graduate Program Chair, ROBO; Associate Professor, MEAM

Dinesh Jayaraman

Assistant Professor, CIS

Dan Koditschek

Alfred Fitler Moore Professor, ESE

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Antonio Loquercio

Assistant Professor, ESE

Ariella Mansfield

PhD, MEAM '23

Nikolai Matni

Associate Professor, ESE

Max Mintz

Professor, CIS (1998 - 2022)

George Pappas

Joseph Moore Professor & Department Chair, ESE

Michael Posa

Assistant Professor, MEAM

Junyao Shi

PhD, CIS

Kausik Sivakumar

Robotics MSE '23

Camillo J. Taylor

Director, GRASP Lab; Associate Dean, Cora Ingrum Center (CIC) - SEAS; Raymond S Markowitz President’s Distinguished Professor, CIS

René Vidal

Rachleff University Professor - Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine; ESE, Penn Engineering

Yifan Xue

PhD, MEAM

Thomas Zhang

PhD, ESE

Inside the Lab

Fast Feature Field (F³): A Predictive Representation of Events

Fast Feature Field (F³): A Predictive Representation of Events

Richeek Das

PhD, CIS

Kostas Daniilidis

Ruth Yalom Stone Professor, CIS

Pratik Chaudhari

Assistant Professor, ESE

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25 - Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS '26 - Software Engineer, Zoox

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Pratik Chaudhari

Assistant Professor, ESE

Dr. Ani Hsieh and ScalAR Lab

Dr. Ani Hsieh and ScalAR Lab

M. Ani Hsieh

Deputy Director, GRASP Lab; Graduate Program Chair, ROBO; Associate Professor, MEAM

AAWR: Real World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

AAWR: Real World Reinforcement Learning of Active Perception Behaviors

Jie Wang

Robotics MSE '26 - Founding Engineer, In Stealth

Oleh Rybkin

PhD, CIS '23, University of California Berkeley

Dinesh Jayaraman

Assistant Professor, CIS

Edward Hu

PhD, CIS

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25 - Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS '26 - Software Engineer, Zoox

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Pratik Chaudhari

Assistant Professor, ESE

Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab

Dr. Michael Posa and DAIR Lab

Michael Posa

Assistant Professor, MEAM

Projects