Distinguished University Professorship 2015 Lecture Series presented by Elmer G. Gilbert; Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin; Professor of Engineering and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan

The fields of control and robotics work hand in hand to develop bipedal machines that can achieve walking movements with the stability and agility of a human. Dynamic models for bipeds are hybrid nonlinear systems, meaning they contain both continuous and discrete elements, with switching events spatially controlled by changes in ground contact. This talk will show how non-linear control methods increase the ability to achieve highly dynamic locomotion. The experiments presented will mainly focus on our previous work on 2D (planar) bipedal robots; A new 3D robot is being installed in Michigan and we will show some preliminary results.
Jessy W. Grizzle received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 and in 1984 he held an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science in Paris, France. Since September 1987, he has been at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is the Jerry and Carol Levin Professor of Engineering. He collectively holds sixteen patents relating to emission reduction in passenger cars through improved control system design. Professor Grizzle is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the IFAC. He received the Paper of the Year Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 1993, the George S. Axelby Award in 2002, the Control Systems Technology Award in 2003, and the Bode Lecture Prize in 2012. His work in bipedal locomotion is the subject of numerous plenary lectures and has been featured in The Economist, Wired Magazine, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and several television programs.

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