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

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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!

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

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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.”

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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.

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Professor Tomizuka has been honored this year’s Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award Late-Career Faculty Winner on April 16, 2019! Congratulations!

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The lab celebrated Jianyu Chen, Zining Wang, Kiwoo Shin, and Daisuke Kaneishi’s passing of qualifications exam with a sushi party!

Paper “Fast Robot Motion Planning with Collision Avoidance and Temporal Optimization” authored by Hsien-Chung Lin, Changliu liu, and Masayoshi Tomizuka wins the 15th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) Best Paper Award.

Paper “Zero-shot Deep Reinforcement Learning Driving Policy Transfer for Autonomous Vehicles based on Robust Control” authored by Zhuo Xu, Chen Tang, and Masayoshi Tomizuka wins the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) Runner-up Best Student Paper Award.

Paper “Grasp Planning for Customizes Grippers by Iterative Surface Fitting” authored by Yongxiang Fan, Hsien-Chung Lin, Te Tang, and Masayoshi Tomizuka wins the IEEE-CASE Best Application Paper Award.

Paper “Probabilistic Prediction of Vehicle Semantic Intention and Motion” authored by Yeping Hu, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka wins the 29th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) Best Student Paper Award.

Professor Tomizuka has received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Heritage Award at the American Control Conference on June 28, 2018! Congratulations!

The AACC Richard E. Bellman Heritage Award is the highest lifetime achievement award that can be bestowed upon a US control system engineer or scientist. This prize is given to recognition Professor Tomizuka’s seminal and pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of mechatronic systems control.  

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Congratulations to the new Doctors and Masters from the MSC Lab:

Doctors: Yu-Chu Huang, Hsien-Chung Lin, Shuyang Li and Te Tang.

Masters: Shiyu Jin, Richard Lee and Taohan Wang

(Photo credits: Chen Tang - Official MSC Photographer)

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We welcomed many visitors on Cal Day!

(Photo credits: Chen Tang)

Professor Xu Chen of the University of Connecticut, who graduated the MSC Lab in 2013 won the 2018 NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations to Xu!

Welcome new students and visiting scholars!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Chen-Yu Chan , Kevin Haninger, Changliu Liu , Xiaowen Yu, Yu Zhao and Shiying Zhou.

(Photo credits: Chen Tang - Official MSC Photographer)

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The lab celebrated Cheng Peng, Liting Sun, Wei Zhan, Yongxiang Fan and Yu-Chu Huang’s passing of qualifications exam with a sushi party!

We welcomed many visitors on Cal Day!

(Photo credits: Chen Tang)

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Check out our video in the 2017 SAE World Congress.

The MSC Lab celebrated Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka’s new house!

The lab celebrated Hsien-Chung Lin, Shiying Zhou, Shuyang Li and Te Tang’s passing of qualifications exam with a sushi party!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Chung Yen Lin , Junkai Lu , Minghui Zhang and Raechel Tan. Also congratulations to Tang Te for his completion of the Masters program.

(Photo credits: Chung-Yen Lin, Hao Yu, and Daisuke Kaneishi)

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We welcomed many visitors to our new extended lab space on Cal Day!

(Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan)

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Tomi family congregated at China Village today to celebrate the 70th birthday for our advisor, Professor Tomizuka! Friends, families, and lab alumni from around the Bay Area enjoyed celebrating with Professor Tomizuka and each other over never-ending food. Thank you everyone for coming!

Under the organization of Miwako-sensei, Professor Tomizuka and various lab members convened in 2013 Etcheverry to celebrate Professor’s birthday over cake and sushi! Happy Birthday Professor!

The MSC Lab celebrated Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka’s house!

The lab celebrated the beginning of the new academic year as well as Xiaowen Yu and Yu Zhao’s passing of qualifications exam with a sushi party! Here’s to a wonderful start of the year!

Professor Tomizuka hosted a dinner for the MSC Lab at China Village to welcome the new lab members and to say farewell to recent graduate Dr. Cong Wang. Dr. Wang has been instrumental in organizing the renovation of our new lab space in 2105/2107 Etcheverry.

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Cong Wang, Yizhou Wang, and Wenlong Zhang. Also congratulations to Nobuaki Fujii and Kevin Haninger for their completion of the Masters program.

We welcomed many visitors to our new lab space on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan and Chung-Yen Lin)

The MSC Lab visited Applied Materials in Santa Clara. Thanks to everyone who helped show us around!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Kan Kanjanapas and Chi-Shen Tsai. Also congratulations to Yaoqiong Du, Chung-Yen Lin, Changliu Liu, and Raechel Tan for their completion of the Masters program.

The MSC Lab celebrated Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka's house.

The Tomi "family" at DSCC 2013. (Photo credits: Kan Kanjanapas)

(Pictured from left to right. Front row: Bin Yao, Xu Chen, Wenlong Zhang, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Tsu-Chin Tsao, Kan Kanjanapas, Cong Wang. Back row: Soo Jeon, Yizhou Wang, Atsushi Oshima, George T.-C. Chiu, Huei Peng.)

We have a new research booklet for the lab, which can be downloaded here!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Mike Chan, Evan Chang-Siu, and Xu Chen. Also congratulations to Junkai Lu and Hiroshi Niki for their completion of the Masters program. (Photo credits: Xu Chen and Zhanzhan Jia)

The MSC Lab welcomed many visitors on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan)

We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Tomizuka has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems! Additionally, our lab has two best student paper finalists at the 6th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems. Congratulations to Prof. Tomizuka, Cong Wang, Chung-Yen Lin, Junkai Lu, and Wenjie Chen!

The Tomi "family" at the conference:

(Pictured from left to right. Front row: Kyoungchul Kong, Bin Yao, Tsu-Chin Tsao, Jun Ho Oh, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Roberto Horowitz, Doyoung Jeon, George T.-C. Chiu. Middle row: Hyunjin Choi, Eunyoung Baek, Wenjie Chen, Xu Chen, Taejin Jung. Back row: Cong Wang, Kan Kanjanapas, Junkai Lu, Wenlong Zhang, Yizhou Wang. Photo credit: Kan Kanjanapas.)

We are pleased to announce that Wenjie Chen, Xu Chen, and Yizhou Wang have all had their papers selected as "Best Paper in Session" from DSCC 2012. Congratulations to Wenjie, Xu, and Yizhou!

Prof. Bhattacharyya begins his four-part seminar on PID control today. The details of his seminar series is below:

A Short Course on Modern PID Control

By Prof. Shankar P. Bhattacharyya

Abstract

In this course we describe recent results on PID control that describe a new approach to design. Specifically we develop procedures to compute the complete stabilizing set. This is based on fundamental new results on root counting based on the Hermite-Bieler Theorem and its generalization. The computational algorithm that results is a linear programming problem with a nesting parameter. The stabilizing sets are shown to have certain convexity properties in specific directions. This computation opens up the possibility of carrying out design to satisfy multiple specifications. The results are applicable to continuous time systems with and without delays, and to discrete time systems. In addition it is shown that they also allow design for a plant described by frequency response measurements without first developing an identified model.

Lecture Slides

• PID Controllers: An Overview of Classical Theory
• PID Controllers for Delay-Free LTI Systems
• PID Controllers for Systems with Time-Delay
• Digital PID Controller Design
• First Order Controllers for LTI Systems
• Data Based Design of 3 Term Controllers

Bio

S.P. Bhattacharyya is the Robert M. Kennedy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A & M University. He received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Bombay in 1967, and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1969 and 1971 respectively. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IFAC Fellow and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He has coauthored 7 books, over 100 journal publications and 250 conference publications in the field of Control Theory. He is also an accomplised concert artist and plays Indian Classical Music on the Sarode internationally.

Atsushi Oshima-san's farewell dinner at Party Sushi.

The MSC Lab celebrates Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka's house.

The Tomi “family” at DSCC 2012.

(Pictured from left to right. Back row: George T. C. Chiu, Matthew Brown, Yizhou Wang, Huei Peng, Jonathan Asensio, Yu Sakon, Ahmed El-Shaer, Tony Phillips. Front row: Tsu-Chin Tsao, Xu Chen, Roberto Horowitz, Wenlong Zhang, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Lucy Pao, Wenjie Chen, Bin Yao.)

We are pleased to announce that Xu Chen won the ASME ISPS Division 2012 Graduate Student Conference Scholarship this past June at the 2012 ASME-ISPS / JSME-IIP Joint International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment. Congratulations Xu!

The MSC Lab is pleased to announce that Pedro Reynoso Mora won the Best Paper Award (Theory) at the ASME/ISCIE 2012 International Symposium on Flexible Automation for his paper "LQ-Based Trajectory Tracking of Robotic Manipulators with 'Near' Dynamically Feasible Time-Optimal Trajectory." Congratulations Pedro!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Sanggyum Kim, Wenjie Chen, and Pedro Reynoso Mora. Also congratulations to Wenlong Zhang, Yizhou Wang, and Omar Abdul-hadi for their completion of the Masters program. (Photo credits: Evan Chang-Siu)

Congratulations to the PikaPen team for winning 3rd place in the Information Technology for Society category of this year's Big Ideas Competition!

Please visit the following news outlets for more information:

• CITRIS News - "Big Ideas winners announced for 2012"
• University of California Research - "Turning big ideas into solutions"

(Pictured from left to right: Dominick Lim, Matthew Brown, Raechel Tan, Wenjie Chen, Jonathan Beard, Evan Chang-Siu)

The MSC Lab welcomed many visitors on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Wenlong Zhang)

The MSC Lab is pleased to announce that the renovation of our office in 2103 Etcheverry is finally complete! Our lab members dedicated many hours of labor assembling furniture and organizing journals. We now have all-new desks and chairs, in addition to new paint and carpet. Check out the photos below or stop by sometime to see for yourself!

(Photo credits: Evan Chang-Siu)

Yesterday we welcomed Prof. Katsura and his research group from Keio University for the 1st International Workshop between UC Berkeley and Keio University. We heard 10 great speakers give presentations on their research. We then wrapped up the day with a pizza party in our newly renovated office. (Pictures of our new office coming soon!)

The MSC Lab is pleased to announce that Evan Chang-Siu was nominated for the best paper award at the Intelligent Robotics and Systems 2011 conference for "A Lizard-Inspired Active Tail Enables Rapid Maneuvers and Dynamic Stabilization in a Terrestrial Robot." His collaborative work with CiBER has also been featured in Nature.

Please visit the following news outlets for more information:

• UC Berkeley News Center - "Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design"
• IEEE Spectrum - "Dinosaur-Like Tails Make Terrestrial Mobile Robots More Agile"
• Nature News - "Leaping lizards! Jurassic Park got it right"

The MSC Lab wraps up 2011 with a New Year's Eve party at Professor Tomizuka's house.

Sumio Sugita-san's farewell dinner at Yusan Sushi.

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Joonbum Bae, Nancy Feng Dan Dong, Hoday Stearns, and Shuwen Yu.

Also congratulations to Kan Kanjanapas and Kengo Suzuki for their completion of the Masters program.

The 2011 Cal Day Open Lab in the MSC Lab.

The MSC Lab celebrates Professor Tomizuka's 65th Birthday today! O-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu!

Congratulations to the new Doctors from the MSC Lab: Guoyuan Wu and Haifei Cheng.

Also congratulations to Pedro Reynoso Mora and Xu Chen for their completion of the Masters program.

The 2011 Cal Day Open Lab in the MSC Lab.

The MSC Lab celebrates Professor Tomizuka's 64th Birthday today! O-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu!

The group seminars for Fall 2009 start today.

Seven members of the MSC Lab walked in the 2008-2009 Commencement. Congratulations to the new doctors: Xuan Fan, Benjamin Fine, Chenghuei Han, Kyoungchul Kong, Sandipan Mishra, Takashi Nagata, and Qixing Zheng.

MSC Lab Group had a wonderful ski trip in Alpine Meadows, Lake Tahoe.