Avik De
PhD, ESE '17- Co-Founder, Ghost Robotics
Avik is currently a postdoc at Harvard SEAS and the Wyss Institute co-advised by Rob Wood and Scott Kuindersma. He received his PhD in Sep 2017, at the GRASP laboratory (Kodlab) in the University of Pennsylvania advised by Dan Koditschek. He graduated with a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2010 (LIMBS lab under Noah Cowan), during which he performed an empirical study on how/when human beings inject feedback to stabilize a 1-dimensional paddle juggling task. Bio-inspiration remains a key research interest, and during my PhD, he switched his efforts into modular/compositional control of dynamic locomotion in a way that generalizes across platforms (quadruped, tailed biped, …) and behaviors (hopping, running, …), as well as the design of dynamic locomotor systems.
Research Groups
Startups
Publications
Task-Based Control and Design of a BLDC Actuator for Robotics
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Analytically-Guided Design of a Tailed Bipedal Hopping Robot
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Sensor-based legged robot homing using range-only target localization
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Design Principles for a Family of Direct-Drive Legged Robots
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Frontal plane stabilization and hopping with a 2dof tail
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Towards bipedal behavior on a quadrupedal platform using optimal control
Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Averaged Anchoring of Decoupled Templates in a Tail-Energized Monoped
Publisher International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)
Parallel composition of templates for tail-energized planar hopping
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Tail-assisted rigid and compliant legged leaping
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
The Penn Jerboa: A Platform for Exploring Parallel Composition of Templates
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
News
Student News
“Ghost Robotics’ Minitaur Demonstrates Impressive New Skills” in IEEE Spectrum
February 28, 2017