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Legged Robot Control Competition

The goal of our research is to build machines which exploit their natural dynamics to achieve extraordinary agility and efficiency. We believe that this challenge involves a tight coupling between mechanical design and underactuated nonlinear control, and that tools from machine learning and optimal control can be used to produce this coupling when classical control techniques fail. Our projects include minimally-actuated dynamic walking on moderate terrain, quadrupedal locomotion on extreme terrain, fixed-wing acrobatics, flapping-winged flight, and feedback control for fluid dynamics.

The Robot Locomotion Group is a part of the CSAIL Center for Robotics.

Recent News

• The IAP Humanoid Robotics Competition (6.095) has begun. The exhibition will be on Wednesday, January 30th, at 6pm (room TBD).

• The graduate course, Underactuated Robotics (6.832), will be offered again this Spring.