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.pd
Numerical Renaissance: Simulation, Optimization, and Control (draft available at http://robotics.ucsd.edu/NR.pd
He is also the sole author of an associated extensive pedagogical codebase, dubbed the Renaissance Repository, available at https://github.com/tbewley/RR/
