TRACE Lab (Terrain Robotics Advanced Control and Experimentation)
The TRACE Lab at Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering focuses on modeling, estimation, planning, and control of legged locomotion and manipulation in dynamic and complex environments. They also study fundamental principles of human and animal locomotion biomechanics.
Notable achievements
Safe and autonomous robot operations in dynamic environments, biomechanics research
Recent publications
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Bioinspired underwater robotics: Advances across the materials, design, control, and applications
Dilip Muchhala, Pramod Kumar Maurya, Adarsh Raut +3 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Design, modelling and control of hyper-redundant robots in constrained environments: A review
Shuo Xu, Yuqi He, Yishi Chen +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Modeling and control of a rigid–soft hybrid-link humanoid robot
Zewen He, Taiki Ishigaki, Ko Yamamoto
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Design and control of a flying biped robot to hovering, trajectory tracking and swinging leg in the air
Zhifeng Huang, Fucheng Guo, Lei Nie +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026