News and Announcements
Apr. 16, 2016
We welcomed many visitors to our new extended lab space on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan)
Apr. 2, 2016
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!
Sep. 4, 2015
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!
Aug. 13, 2015
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.
May 17, 2015
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.
Apr. 18, 2015
We welcomed many visitors to our new lab space on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan and Chung-Yen Lin)
May 29, 2014
The MSC Lab visited Applied Materials in Santa Clara. Thanks to everyone who helped show us around!
May 18, 2014
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.
Nov. 28, 2013
The MSC Lab celebrated Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka's house.
Oct. 28, 2013
The Tomi "family" at DSCC 2013. (Photo credits: Kan Kanjanapas)
(Pictured from left to right. Wenlong Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Xu Chen, Ahmed Al-Shaer, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Atsushi Oshima, Kan Kanjanapas, Cong Wang.)
(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.)
Sep. 20, 2013
We have a new research booklet for the lab, which can be viewed here!
May 20, 2013
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)
Apr. 20, 2013
The MSC Lab welcomed many visitors on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Chen-Yu Chan)
Apr. 15, 2013
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.)
Mar. 14, 2013
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!
Mar. 11, 2013
Prof. Bhattacharyya begins his four-part seminar on PID control today. The lecture slides can be downloaded here.
Feb. 19, 2013
Atsushi Oshima-san's farewell dinner at Party Sushi.
Nov. 22, 2012
The MSC Lab celebrates Thanksgiving at Prof. Tomizuka's house.
Oct. 18, 2012
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.)
Aug. 9, 2012
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!
Jul. 6, 2012
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!
May 12, 2012
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)
May 1, 2012
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)
Apr. 21, 2012
The MSC Lab welcomed many visitors on Cal Day! (Photo credits: Wenlong Zhang)
Feb. 29, 2012
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)
Feb. 28, 2012
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!)
Jan. 6, 2012
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"
Dec. 31, 2011
The MSC Lab wraps up 2011 with a New Year's Eve party at Professor Tomizuka's house.
May 14, 2011
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.
Apr. 16, 2011
The 2011 Cal Day Open Lab in the MSC Lab.
Mar. 31, 2011
The MSC Lab celebrates Professor Tomizuka's 65th Birthday today! O-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu!
Jul. 9, 2011
Sumio Sugita-san's farewell dinner at Yusan Sushi.
May 16, 2010
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.
Apr. 17, 2010
The 2011 Cal Day Open Lab in the MSC Lab.
Mar. 31, 2010
The MSC Lab celebrates Professor Tomizuka's 64th Birthday today! O-tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu!
Sep. 4, 2009
The group seminars for Fall 2009 start today.
May 23, 2009
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.
Feb. 28, 2009
MSC Lab Group had a wonderful ski trip in Alpine Meadows, Lake Tahoe.
