Jim Ostrowski
General Robotics Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania

Jim Ostrowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Science. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Brown University (Sc.B., 1986) and graduate degrees from the California Institute of Technology (M.S., 1991; Ph.D., 1996). His expertise is in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and control for robotics, with a particular emphasis on the mechanics and control of robotic locomotion systems and vision-based control of mobile robots. He has studied a wide variety of systems, including wheeled vehicles, snakes, eel-like swimming robots, and blimps. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and for the Conference Editorial Board of the Control Systems Society, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award.


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