🚀 Co-Optimizing Robots for Performance 🚀

🌟 CAPO: A scalable optimization method:
✅ Jointly optimizes actuators & control traj.
✅ Scales to complex systems
✅ Finds robust, efficient designs

🏋️ Tested on:
🚁 Multirotors 🛰️ Space structures 🧥 Cloth 🐟 Soft robots

📄 rexlab.ri.cmu.edu/papers/CAPO_...

End of an era as Kevin Tracy defends his PhD. Kevin has been with the lab since the very beginning at Stanford, through the move to CMU. He's done amazing optimization-based control work with applications spanning aerospace and robotics and it has been an absolute pleasure working with him.