Research Expertise and Interest

nonlinear control, Legged Robotics, Aerial Robotics

Research Description

Koushil Sreenath is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  Research done in the the Hybrid Robotics lab lies at the intersection of applied nonlinear control and hybrid dynamic robotics. Their goal is to design controllers for achieving dynamic, fast, energy-efficient, and robust maneuvers on hybrid and underactuated systems such as legged and aerial robots. This will require addressing the challenges of high degree-of-freedom, high degree-of-underactuation, nonlinear and hybrid systems with unilateral constraints, operating in stochastic and hard-to-model regimes. Their work has focused on creating dynamic bipedal locomotion - both walking and running, and dynamic aerial manipulation maneuvers.