Faculty Profiles

Back to Faculty Profiles

Thomas R. Bewley

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Research interests lie at the intersections of control and optimization theory, fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes mathematics, high-performance computing, and robotics.

Flow Control Lab
Stabilization, forecasting, and optimization of multiscale PDE systems.  
Applications include unsteady aerodynamics, electronics cooling, contaminant plumes, hurricanes, and ocean currents. Adaptive observation   with UAVs and AUVs. Search and Rescue. Derivative-free optimization and computational interconnect design leveraging n-dimensional sphere packings.

Coordinated Robotics Lab
Design and stabilization of highly agile mobile robots.

Capsule Bio:

Thomas Bewley joined the Dynamic Systems and Control Program of MAE in 1998, after completing his Ph.D. at Stanford University, and is a core   member of UCSD's Contextual Robotics Institute.

His research interests lie at the intersections of control and optimization  theory, fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes mathematics, high-performance  computing, and coordinated control of small robotic systems.  He directs two distinct research laboratories.

Renaissance Robotics: embedding multithreaded real-time feedback into mobile robots and cyber-physical systems  (draft available at   http://robotics.ucsd.edu/RR.pdf)

Numerical Renaissance: Simulation, Optimization, and Control (draft available at http://robotics.ucsd.edu/NR.pdf)

He is also the sole author of an associated extensive pedagogical codebase, dubbed the Renaissance Repository, available at https://github.com/tbewley/RR/


Update your profile

Email:
tbewley@ucsd.edu

Office Phone:
858-534-4287

Website

Lab Website