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The Robotics Laboratory at UCSB is engaged in the development of both passive and actively controlled dynamics for autonomous robots. Our primary applications are manipulation and locomotion - areas where underactuation and stochasticity create particular challenges within robotics.

Research areas include:
   - legged locomotion on rough terrain
   - agile micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs)
   - compliant manipulation and man-machine interactions

Katie Byl, Principal Investigator.


Current Members:
(from left to right)
   Pat Terry
   Paul Filitchkin
   Giulia Piovan
   Katie Byl, PI
   Marco Rodriguez-Suarez
   Hosein Mahjoubi
   Min-Yi (Milly) Chen
Not shown:
   Brian Satzinger
   Ryan Bahneman (ugrad researcher)
   Thien Nguyen (ugrad researcher)
Current projects include:
    - Variable-impedance leg dynamics and control, for rough-terrain locomotion
    - Man-machine interactions to exploit neuroplasticity
    - Flapping-wing vehicle dynamics, reflexive control, and machine learning approaches
    - Compliant manipulation: modeling and optimization
    - Course development for "Robot Dynamics and Control" (ECE 194D, Spring 2011)
We are not actively recruiting undergraduate and graduate researchers at this time; see "New Members" link at top left of page.

The Robotics Lab is part of both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC) at UCSB.

LittleDog Robot Video


[RoboBees]

Video above was taken during Katie Byl's work in the DARPA Learning Locomotion program under Prof. Russ Tedrake at the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT.

The LittleDog robot is a product of Boston Dynamics.

As a postdoctoral fellow, Katie was researching microrobotic flapping-wing robots with Prof. Rob Wood at Harvard.