Dr. Brendan Englot
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Englot is interested in perception, planning, optimization, and control that enables mobile robots to achieve robust autonomy in complex physical environments. Specific goals include improving the reliability of autonomous navigation for unmanned underwater, ground and aerial vehicles subjected to noise-corrupted and drifting sensors, incomplete knowledge of the environment, and tasks that require interaction with surrounding objects and structures. His recent work has considered sensing tasks motivated by underwater surveillance and inspection applications, and path planning with multiple objectives, unreliable sensors, and imprecise maps.
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
S.M., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
S.B., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
Honors and Awards
- Provost's Award for Research Excellence (awarded to one faculty member annually at Stevens Institute of Technology), 2021
- ONR Young Investigator Award, 2020
- W!SE Innovations Award (awarded to one recipient annually to recognize innovations that improve quality of life), 2019
- Appointed the Geoffrey S. Inman Endowed Junior Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, 2017
- Bluefin Robotics Award for Best Navigation/Localization Paper and Poster, awarded at the Marine Robot Localization and Navigation Workshop at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016