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OVERVIEW
The Movement Control Laboratory was founded at the Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego in 2002. It was then relocated to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington in 2009. Everyone has now graduated and moved on to make exciting contributions in academia and industry. Emo Todorov also "graduated" and is now working on research and development at Roboti LLC. This is an archival page, previously hosted at the University of Washington.
The lab focused on the control of complex movements in animals and robots. Biological movements can be modeled in detail using optimality principles - which is not surprising given that they are shaped by iterative optimization processes such as evolution, learning, adaptation. Similarly, the best way to engineer a complex control system is to specify a high-level performance criterion and leave the details to numerical optimization. In both areas, the main difficulty lies in actually performing the optimization. In our research we developed powerful methods for optimal control and learning, and applied them to challenging problems.
LAB MEMBERS
Emo Todorov |
Principal Investigator |
Academic CV |
Motoya Ohnishi |
Doctoral Student |
2019 - 2024 |
Aravind Rajeswaran |
Doctoral Student |
2016 - 2021 |
Svet Kolev |
Doctoral Student |
2011 - 2021 |
Kendall Lowrey |
Doctoral Student |
2013 - 2019 |
Vikash Kumar |
Doctoral Student |
2011 - 2016 |
Akshay Srinivasan |
Doctoral Student |
2013 - 2016 |
Galen Andrew |
Doctoral Student |
2014 - 2016 |
Igor Mordatch |
Doctoral Student |
2011 - 2015 |
Joseph Xu |
Doctoral Student |
2012 - 2015 |
Mikala Johnson |
Doctoral Student |
2012 - 2014 |
Meiling Wang |
Visiting Doctoral Student |
2013 - 2014 |
Tom Erez |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
2011 - 2014 |
Krishnamurthy Dvijotham |
Doctoral Student |
2009 - 2014 |
Yuval Tassa |
Doctoral Student, Postdoc |
2008 - 2014 |
Paul Kulchenko |
Doctoral Student |
2010 - 2013 |
Evangelos Theodorou |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
2011 - 2013 |
Jiri Najemnik |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
2011 - 2013 |
Mingyuan Zhong |
Doctoral Student |
2009 - 2013 |
Alex Simpkins |
Doctoral Student, Postdoc |
2005 - 2012 |
Chunyan Hu |
Doctoral Student |
2010 - 2012 |
Mike Kelley |
Masters Student |
2008 - 2011 |
Joanne Jao |
Staff Researcher |
2009 - 2010 |
Miro Enev |
Doctoral Student |
2006 - 2009 |
Rika Yatchak |
Undergraduate Student |
2007 - 2008 |
Dan Liu |
Doctoral Student |
2003 - 2008 |
Slavik Bryksin |
Undergraduate Student |
2005 - 2007 |
Weiwei Li |
Doctoral Student |
2003 - 2006 |
Hiroyuki Kambara |
Visiting Doctoral Student |
2005 - 2006 |
Nigel Singh |
Masters Student |
2004 - 2006 |
Xiuchuan Pan |
Staff Researcher |
2004 - 2006 |
Claudia Lainscsek |
Postdoctoral Researcher |
2003 - 2004 |
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