Nolan Fey
2021-2023, Next: PhD student at MIT, NSF Fellow
- nfey@nd.edu
Education
B.S. University of Notre Dame (2023)
Research
My research interests lie in the fields of robotic motion planning and control. I am particularly interested in developing robotic control methods that perform well across a wide range of tasks and that are robust to the high levels of uncertainties found in new environments. Such control methods prepare robots for future robotic applications that will require significant mobility and control—i.e. a construction robot, a cave exploration robot for distant planets, or a home robot that can do housework like emptying the dishwasher and fetching a glass of water. I am currently focused on developing algorithms for quadrupedal walking robots that allow them to dynamically maneuver through cluttered terrain and adapt their control inputs on-the-fly in response to varying terrain and unmodeled dynamics.
Award
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2023)
NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (2023) [declined]
MIT Presidential Fellowship (2023)
Life
I love to listen to music, especially when it’s live, and jam on my electric guitar with friends.