Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Systems, Cognition, and Control Laboratory
Led by Rushikesh Kamalapurkar · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
This lab studies how engineered systems sense, decide and act, with work in autonomy, biological systems and space systems.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Discrete-time dynamical systems characterization via invariance and approximation of koopman operators and operator-valued kernels
2026 · Nonlinear Dynamics
Uses math to study how systems change over time using data.
- Control Occupation Kernel Regression for Nonlinear Control-Affine Systems
2026 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Builds a math model of how systems respond to control inputs.
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- Safe output-feedback adaptive optimal control of input-constrained control-affine nonlinear systems
2026 · Automatica
- Saturated RISE Controllers With Exponential Stability Guarantees: A Projected Dynamical Systems Approach
2025 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Designs a controller that works even when inputs are too strong.
- Dynamic mode decomposition of higher order systems
2025 · Automatica
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