Brian Bittner Email and Phone Number

Principal Investigator of several motion planning and control projects related to navigation and manipulation in complex environments.Project Manager of collaboration with ARL leveraging diffusion models to enhance scene understanding for multi-agent exploration and mapping.Supervisor (Acting) of Advanced Robotic Control Section, serving as line manager of five staff members contributing to perception, motion planning, and controls projects.Recent Work:• Hyper-Redundant Locomotion – Showed that many-jointed robots are capable of real-time adaptation to terrain change and body damage. • Floating-Base Manipulation – Identified zero-perturbation manifold useful for high dexterity tasking in underwater and orbital domains. Awarded Hart Prize for best internal research (1/345 projects).• Task-Specialized Robot Design – Demonstrated that legged robots can be codesigned and fabricated on-the-fly to achieve unanticipated tasks like slope climbing.• Generative Planning for High-Speed Navigation – Architected a normalizing flow to provide multi-modal motion planning at the mechanical limits of the system.

Advisor - Shai Revzen