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Zach Patterson

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Develops interaction safe bioinspired robots and control algorithms.
Office: 306 BioEnterprise

Education

Ph.D. , Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2017

Research Interests

Zach Patterson's current overarching research thrust is to develop robot systems that can operate with stronger safety guarantees in sensitive settings. Most work on this topic currently focuses on algorithmically guaranteed safety. While Zach works in this area, the basic physical properties of the robot ultimately provide constraints on what safety means and how strict the algorithm must be. Therefore, he is building robots that are designed with these algorithms in mind in order to maximize their effectiveness. The end goal is to create robots that, like humans, are not afraid of bumping into the world in unexpected ways.

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