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Gedaliah Knizhnik

Gedaliah Knizhnik

PhD, MEAM '22, Staff Robotic Software Engineer at RRAI

Gedaliah is a Staff Robotic Software Engineer at RRAI, where he works on manipulation in the context of autonomous trucking. As a Ph.D student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked in the ModLab under Professor Mark Yim and researched modular swimming robots, reconfiguration, and energy-efficient swimming in information limited contexts. Gedaliah graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 from the University of Maryland, College Park where he did undergraduate research on underactuated robotic climbing for bridge inspection.

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Publications

Flow-Based Control of Marine Robots in Gyre-Like Environments

Publisher International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Amplitude Control for Parallel Lattices of Docked Modboats

Publisher International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Docking and Undocking a Modular Underactuated Oscillating Swimming Robot

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Thrust Direction Control of an Under-actuated Oscillating Swimming Robot

Publisher IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Pauses Provide Effective Control for an Underactuated Oscillating Swimming Robot

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

News

GRASP News

ICRA 2022 – GRASP Accepted Papers

February 9, 2022


GRASP News

2021 IROS Conference Papers

August 6, 2021


GRASP News

ICRA 2021 – GRASP Accepted Papers

March 3, 2021


M. Ani Hsieh

Deputy Director, GRASP Lab; Graduate Program Chair, ROBO; Associate Professor, MEAM


Mark Yim

Director, GRASP Lab; Faculty Director, Design Studio (Venture Labs); Asa Whitney Professor, MEAM


Gedaliah Knizhnik