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The Robotics Laboratory at UCSB develops novel control for autonomous robots. Our primary focus is robot locomotion, where underactuation and stochasticity are key challenges, particularly:    - legged locomotion    - flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs)    - supervised autonomy    - lower-limb exoskeletons Katie Byl, Principal Investigator. (link to ECE faculty profile).

Current Projects:     . DARPA Robotics Challenge (with JPL)     . NSF CAREER - Robust Bipedal Locomotion     . Hellman Foundation: Hummingbird-scale Robots     . DARPA M3: Legged Hopping on Rough Terrain     . Army ICB: Bio-Inspired Robot Locomotion     . Army Robotics CTA: Bounding Gaits     . Sloan Foundation: Neuroscience and Robotics The Robotics Lab at UCSB is affiliated with: the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. (ECE), the Dept. of Mechanical Eng. (ME), and the Center for Control, Dyn. Sys. and Computation (CCDC).

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Current Members:    Sebastian Altwegg *    Lawrence Buss    Katie Byl, PI    Marty Byl    Jason Cortell    Markus Giftthaler *    Peter Ha    Howard Hu    Steven Lin    Hosein Mahjoubi    Giulia Piovan    Cenk Oguz Saglam    Brian Satzinger    Sebastian Sovero    Pat Terry    * ETH-Zurich visitor

DARPA Robotics Challenge

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We are not actively recruiting undergraduate and graduate researchers at this time; see "New Members" link at top left of page.

Katie's doctoral work was under that guidance of Prof. Russ Tedrake at the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT, with Neville Hogan as committee chair. As a postdoctoral fellow, Katie was researching microrobotic flapping-wing robots with Prof. Rob Wood at Harvard.