Kate Schweidel Email & Phone Number

United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

• Dissertation: Robust Hierarchical Control with Connected Layers• Studied hierarchical control schemes where each control layer employs a different system model• Enhanced safety by accommodating real world sources of uncertainty such as unmodeled dynamics• Advised by Andrew Packard and Murat Arcak

Berkeley, California, United States

• Graduate level course on Model Predictive Control (MPC) and loopshaping• Instructed weekly lab section for 40 students, held office hours, answered student questions via online forum

Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

• Conducted experiments in the Marine Cybernetics Lab at NTNU using the Cybership Arctic Drillship, a 1:90 scale vessel• Tested a backstepping-based control law for tracking a planned trajectory• Won a Peder Sather Grant entitled "Maneuvering and Control of Autonomous Ships under Uncertainty in Changing Environments"

Los Altos, California, United States

• Applied contingency planning to the novel setting of shared control between a human driver and an autonomous system, as in the Toyota Guardian system• Developed novel control strategy, Driver-in-the-Loop Contingency MPC, and applied it in simulation to two longitudinal driving scenarios• Published the paper "Driver-in-the-Loop Contingency MPC with Invariant Sets" with internship colleagues at the 2022 European Controls Conference

Los Angeles, California, United States

Northridge, California, United States

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Berkeley, California, United States

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering (Controls), 4.0/4.0

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering (Controls)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.996/4.0