Congratulations to Brian Acosta, who successfully defended his thesis, titled “Real-time Perception and Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain.” Brian’s thesis was a beautiful synthesis of full-stack bipedal robots: he developed new strategies for robust extraction of walkable terrain from depth data and algorithms for combined foostep planning and dynamic control. Check out the recording below, with the document itself to come soon!