Katie Byl, faculty
katiebyl@ece.ucsb.edu
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~katiebyl/
Office: Harold Frank Hall
Phone: 1 (805) 8934924
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Academic Department:

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Research Affiliations:
Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC)
Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)

Recent awards:
2011 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Recently taught courses:

Course Number Course Name Quarter
ECE179D/ME179D Introduction to Robotics: Robot Dynamics and Control 2014b Spring
ECE147B Digital Control Systems - Theory and Design 2014a Winter
ECE594D Robot Locomotion 2013d Fall
ME169/ECE183 Nonlinear Phenomena 2013b Spring
ECE147B Digital Control Systems - Theory and Design 2013a Winter
ECE179D/ME179D Introduction to Robotics: Robot Dynamics and Control 2012d Fall
ECE179D/ME179D Introduction to Robotics: Robot Dynamics and Control 2012b Spring
ECE147B Digital Control Systems - Theory and Design 2012a Winter
ECE238 Advanced Control Design Laboratory 2011d Fall
ECE179D/ME179D Introduction to Robotics: Robot Dynamics and Control 2011b Spring

Recent Publications:

Piovan G, Byl K. Enforced Symmetry of the Stance Phase For the Spring-loaded Inverted Pendulum. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (icra). 2012.
Nanayakkara T, Byl K, Liu H, Song X, Villabona T. Dominant Sources of Variability In Passive Walking. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (icra). 2012.
Byl K, Byl M, Rutschmann M, Satzinger B, Van Blarigan L, Piovan G, et al. Series-elastic Actuation Prototype For Rough Terrain Hopping. In: 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies For Practical Robot Applications (tepra). 2012.
Mahjoubi H, Byl K. Tunable Impedance: A Semi-passive Approach To Practical Motion Control Of Insect-inspired Mavs. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (icra). 2012;
Byl K, Byl M, Rutschmann M, Satzinger B, Van Blarigan L, Piovan G, et al. Series-elastic Actuation Prototype For Rough Terrain Hopping. 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies For Practical Robot Applications (tepra). 2012;
Mahjoubi H, Byl K. Analysis of A Tunable Impedance Method For Practical Control of Insect-inspired Flapping-wing Mavs. In: 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (cdc-ecc 2011). 2011.