SHANE ROZEN-LEVY

I am interested in leveraging my knowledge of dynamics and controls to create robust behaviors in robots with interesting, and often times hybrid, dynamics. My dream is to find a way to combine the robustness to model errors that you get from a simple template based controller with the robustness to physical disturbances that you get with an optimization based controller. I believe that to make a working robot, it is crucial to test frequently on hardware, to not be afraid of failure, and to learn from those failures... Currently I'm working with the Penn Jerboa to study how we might take advantage of both natural and man made hybrid transitions and multipurpose appendages to control a highly underacted (4 motors and 12 degree of freedom), but power dense biped.

Primary location: Philadelphia United States