Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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Deformable Object Manipulation with a Tactile Reactive Gripper
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Manipulating deformable objects remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, as techniques developed for rigid objects often fail to generalize. Deformable objects exhibit infinite-dimensional configuration spaces, frequent ... -
A Model-Based Planning and Control Framework for Parkour-Style Legged Locomotion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Legged robots have long been envisioned as a means of expanding robotic capabilities beyond structured environments, yet achieving high-agility locomotion remains a fundamental challenge. This thesis presents a model-based ... -
Fractured Practices: How Schooling Norms Limit Modeling Practices in Traditional Technical Thermal-Fluids Engineering Courses -- And the Possibilities Emerging through the Cracks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)In professional science and engineering contexts, modeling practices are frequent and diverse. To understand, analyze, and communicate, scientists and engineers simplify and distort the complex systems with which they work. ...
