Mechanical Systems Control Lab

About Us

The recent research of MSC lab has focused on intelligent/autonomous mechanical systems and their interaction with humans from manufacturing (industrial robots) to transportation (autonomous driving) with synergies between model-based control methodologies with machine learning.

News and Updates

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    The MSC lab celebrated the 2024 Thanksgiving at Prof Tomizuka’s house. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

    November 28, 2024

  • Conference Paper Received Best Paper Award for Industrial Robotics Research

    The paper Harnessing with Twisting: Single-Arm Deformable Linear Object Manipulation for Industrial Harnessing Task presented on IROS 2024 received the Best Paper Award for Industrial Robotics Research! Congratulations to all contributors of this work!

    October 17, 2024

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    The MSC lab celebrated the 2023 Thanksgiving at Prof Tomizuka’s house. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! (Photo Credit to: Yuxin Chen)

    November 23, 2023

  • Professor Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering

    Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka, the Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was named to National Academy of Engineering. Professor Tomizuka studies optimal and adaptive control, digital control, signal processing, motion control, mechatronics and their applications in robotics, manufacturing, data storage devices, vehicles and human-machine systems. The NAE cited his “leadership in control of mechanical systems through innovations applied globally in industry, and education of coming generations of leaders.”

    February 09, 2022

  • Professor Tomizuka Received the Soichiro Honda Medal

    Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka was awarded the Soichiro Honda Medal at the ASME’s 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Park City, Utah on October 10, 2019. American Society of Mechanical Engineers established the medal in 1982 to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement or a series of significant engineering contributions in developing improvements in the field of personal transportation. Professor Tomizuka’s citation reads: for pioneering and sustained contributions in applying modern systems and control theory to the comprehensive analysis and control algorithm development of automated vehicle lateral guidance, which has inspired further developments in the field.

    October 10, 2019


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