Daniel Chavez-Clemente

Contact

dchavez AT stanford DOT edu

Education History

• B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, 2000
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, 2003

Current Project

Gait Optimization for Hexapod Robots

Past Projects

• Pseudolite array deployment
• Augmented reality interfaces, speech processing and face tracking for the STAIR robot
  
• Applications of spherical robots to planetary exploration
  
• Autonomous science with teams of rovers
• Rappelling robots for crater exploration
  

Research Interests

My research interests include all aspects of robotic missions for space exploration: launch/entry vehicle design, spacecraft design, orbital mechanics, and especially design of robotic software and hardware.  Within robotics, I specialize in motion planning, control and optimization techniques, and apply these to a walking robot for lunar exploration.