Prof. Joel W. Burdick — Research Profile
California Institute of Technology · Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Graduate application deadlines
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (ME) — MS/PhD
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026
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Prof. Joel W. Burdick at California Institute of Technology Mechanical and Civil Engineering lists robotics, kinematics, mechanical systems and control as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Real-Time Disturbance-Aware Koopman Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors in Spatially Varying WindsPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 20
- Filtering for Liveness: Recurrence via Backup Reachability Control Barrier FunctionsPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Oct 12
- VLPSA: Vision-Language-Poisson-Safe Actions for Full-Body Safety of Learned PoliciesPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 18
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