Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab fosters the development of inspiring leaders in cutting-edge robotics research.

Abriana Stewart-Height started pursuing her Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering within the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Penn in 2018. This Ph.D. program is a dynamic, hands-on, and research-focused degree program that allows students to interact closely with professors and research staff to pursue a degree tailored to their interests. While pursuing her studies and research within the GRASP Lab, Abriana was supervised by Dr. Daniel E. Koditschek, the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Abriana's doctoral research focused on limb loss recovery in dynamic quadrupedal robots that perform remote operations in challenging environments to develop a generalized fault recovery strategy consisting of agile bio-inspired fault recovery gaits and a fault diagnosis learning technique. Abriana received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 2017 at the University of Maryland.

In December 2023, Abriana graduated with her Ph.D. in ESE from Penn Engineering. Her dissertation, supervised by Dr. Daniel E. Koditschek, was titled “Agile Tripedal Locomotion for Damaged Quadruped Robots”. Currently, Abriana continues her work as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more information about the ESE Doctoral Program visit: https://www.ese.upenn.edu/doctoral/
For more information about the GRASP Lab's Robotics Master's Program visit: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/academics...

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