New funding for dynamic systems and controls
A grant from the National Science Foundation will support research at the MACS lab to study how to enable engineered systems to effectively rely on and respond to real-time data collected from multiple diverse and asynchronous sources.
MACS lab “grandfather”, Prof. Tomizuka, named to National Academy of Engineering!
Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka at UC Berkeley, PhD advisor to Prof. Chen, has just been elected to NAE!
MACS lab robots featured in IEEE Spectrum
The MACS Lab robotic chess player is a demonstration for combining machine intelligence, vision and manipulation with both precision and flexibility.
Lab member Feifei published a NEW JOURNAL PAPER in Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Kinetic modelling; Polyamide 12; Thermal oxidation; Coupled oxygen and laser effects; Selective laser sintering
How an industrial robot manipulator learns to play chess
We built a robotic chess player with a universal robot UR5e, a 2D camera, and a deep-learning neural network to illustrate what we do at the Mechatronics, Automation, and Control System Lab.
Lab member Dan received a CoMotion Innovation Gap Award to develop software for 3D printing
Lab member Dan received a CoMotion Innovation Gap Award. Congratulations! CoMotion announces fall 2020 Innovation Gap Fund winners
New Lab Video on Robotic Inspection of Complex Metalic Parts!
How can we create robots that consistently inspect for aerospace throughout the day, without loss of performance?
Lab Member Dan Wang Successfully Defended her Ph.D. Final Exam
Congratulations to Dr. Wang on defending her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Control-oriented Modeling and Multirate Feedback Control in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing”!