Dynamics, Control, and Robotics

The Dynamics, Control, and Robotics group at Boston University is concerned with the development of technologies for controlling the dynamics of complex mechanical systems.

Faculty members who participate in this group are broadly interested in robotics, the mechanics of fluids and structures, and the development of a variety of autonomous (computer controlled) mechanical systems. The unifying theme is the development of nonlinear control theories which exploit essential dynamical features in a variety of mechanical systems.

Specific applications now under development include biologically-inspired control of walking robots, active control of jet engine compressors to delay or prevent stall and surge, integration of mechanical and control system design for industrial robot manipulators, adaptive tuning of adjustable vibration absorbers for aircraft and space structures, active and/or passive methodologies for introducing motion confinement characteristics in repetitive structures, distributed impact damping as a means of attenuating vibrations of machinery and structures as well as friction modeling and compensation applied to precision machining, disk head positioning, teleoperation, and robotic manipulation.

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