Awardee: Professor Anthony Clark focuses on making autonomous robots more robust and adaptive. In the ARCS Lab, he creates robots with multiple locomotion mechanisms (e.g., wheels and rotors) and simulation methods for developing and optimizing control systems that best leverage such capabilities.
Student Assistants / TA’s: Ella Zhu (Pomona ’26), Jack Chin (Pomona ’26)
Project Title: Developing a Flipped, Interactive Mobile Robotics Course
Project Goal: The goal of Anthony’s project is for students to experience a course in which they learn about autonomous systems and how they impact our society. Students will have the opportunity to build and program a mobile robot to complete a series of tasks. They will learn about modern autonomous systems, such as delivery robots, medical devices, and self-driving vehicles. The course will also cover theory and linear dynamical systems, which have applications is used in robotics, video games, economics, genomics, medicine, chemistry, etc. The course will be delivered in a flipped-style, with students expected to watch lecture videos and read and annotate course material using Hypothesis before class, and utilize class time to work on hands-on activities related to the material.