Contact - Piyush Grover
Department - Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Students Needed:
- Graduate
- Undergraduate
For Undergraduate Students:
Funding available for juniors/seniors with coursework in fluids and/or vibrations.
For Graduate Students:
Dynamics and control, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics/vibrations.
The Dynamical Systems Lab (DSL) in MME focusses on developing analysis, control and optimization methods for nonlinear dynamical systems, and their application to several areas including large-scale multi-agent robotics, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics/nonlinear vibration and astrodynamics. Dynamical systems and control theory provides a strong foundation for tackling problems in (solid/fluid/bio) mechanics, and robotics, among other areas.
Areas of Research
Dynamical Systems theory, control and optimization
Applications to:
- Large-scale multi-agent systems (swarm robotics, traffic)
- Microfluidics and active fluids (chaotic mixing, topological chaos, flow control)
- Metamaterial design (Energy transfers in nonlinear media)
- Atmospheric Flows (Reduced-order modeling , LiDAR dataassimilation)
- Astrodynamics (Low-energy space mission design)
