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It is my pleasure to welcome Mantas Naris into the ROCC group, sort of... By all intents and purposes, Mantas is a full-fledged member of the Bio-inspired Perception and Robotics Lab here at CU Boulder, where he is currently pursuing his PhD. However, Mantas appears to have enough leftover energy...

I'm extremely happy to welcome Yaashia Gautam as the latest addition to the ROCC Lab. Yaashia will be pursuing her PhD under my supervision and will be working on the development of the Hypersampled Model Predictive Control framework, with possible applications in robotics. Despite this being her official start date,...

Maybe "welcome" is not quite the right word for Jonathan Hanson , since he has been involved in the ROCC lab activities for the past year. That being said, this year Jonathan opted to do his master thesis under my supervision, so this semester marks the day when he is...

It it my pleasure to welcome Alexis Katrina Palau as the first Undergraduate AVÃûʪ Student of the ROCC Lab. Alexis will be following in Kelly's footsteps for the development of Constrained Control Laws for Safe Human-Robot Interactions . Althought the project does have a steep learning curve, Alexis is definetly...

Pack your breakfast, don your hiking shoes, and get ready for a sunsire hike to Lake Isabel on Saturday, September 11th. This is my absolute favorite hike in the area featuring mellow terrain, beautiful views, waterfall crossing and possible moose! This year we'll be joined by Lucy and a few...

I'm typically not one to toot my own horn, but I think it is acceptable under certain circumstances. I am overjoyed to announce that I received an NSF CAREER Award for my project on Hypersampled Model Predictive Control . The project is set to start off in the Fall semester...

The Systems & Controls Group is getting back together for a summer picnic this Friday. It will be a nice occasion to reconnect with the other labs, meet new additions, and see who has been doing what over the past year. This will hopefully mark a return to semi-normalcy, as...

This visualization illustrates our recent work in developing an optimal maneuver planner for rigid-body satellite rotations. Specifically, this animation shows how our solver reshapes a 180º rotation about the satellite's z-axis to be both optimal and feasible . In general, finding a maneuver which is optimal (e.g. uses the minimum...

Almost a year ago we ended up cancelling our group Ski Day due to the growing uncertainty and discomfort relating to Covid-19. Shortly after, the ski resorts were closed, the campus switched to remote operations, and all of us went into lockdown. For me, the day of our cancelled ski...

This video is represents a significant milestone in Kelly Merckaert 's research on safe Human-Robot Interaction. The control laws used in these experiments were developed during Kelly's 6-month research internship at CU Boulder, although their implementation on a physical robot had to wait for her to return to the BruBotics...