Autonomous Controls Lab University of California, Berkeley

Team

Principal Investigator

Behçet Açıkmeşe Behçet Açıkmeşe Chancellor's Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor, Mechanical Engineering Principal Investigator & Director, Autonomous Controls Lab Behçet Açıkmeşe leads the lab's work on convex optimization for autonomous control, trajectory optimization, robust control, and aerospace systems.

PhD Students

Fabio Spada Fabio Spada PhD Student Robust control and bilevel optimization Ziad Ramadan Ziad Ramadan PhD Student Real-time trajectory generation; numerical optimization

Affiliated Members

Members of Behçet Açıkmeşe's lab continuing their research at the University of Washington.

Natalia Pavlasek Natalia Pavlasek University of Washington PhD Student Justin Ganiban Justin Ganiban University of Washington PhD Student Pranav Ramasahayam Pranav Ramasahayam University of Washington Convex trajectory optimization for EDL problems

Undergraduate Researchers

Volk Thienpreecha Volk Thienpreecha Undergraduate Researcher Real-time trajectory optimization for robotic manipulation Hudson Kim Hudson Kim Undergraduate Researcher Entry, descent, and landing; propulsion systems

Alumni

Recent alumni

Skye Mceowen Skye Mceowen ACL alumni PhD Student Samuel Buckner Samuel Buckner ACL alumni Real-time trajectory planning, perception-in-the-loop, contingency awareness Samet Uzun Samet Uzun ACL alumni PhD Student Chris Hayner Chris Hayner ACL alumni Perception-aware planning Govind Chari Govind Chari ACL alumni Numerical optimization Avi Mittal Avi Mittal ACL alumni PhD Student Jake Gonzales Jake Gonzales ACL alumni PhD Student Jason Zhou Jason Zhou ACL alumni Agile UAS development

Postdoctoral alumni

Doctoral alumni

Master alumni