UCSB机械工程部门的动力系统，控制和机器人技术小组对利用机械功能的动力系统（例如车辆，柔性结构，机械臂，电磁致动器或流体系统）保持着浓厚的研究兴趣。飞机和空间结构的动力学和控制地震和风引起的建筑结构的控制开关和不连续系统的控制汽车传动系统控制流体流动，扩散，反应和扩散中的混沌对流混沌流动和体积保持动力学系统中的非线性几何控制理论对振动结构（如板，复合梁和带压电层的复合梁）的最佳边界控制
The Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics group in the UCSB Mechanical Engineering department maintains strong research interests in dynamic systems utilizing mechanical functions, such as vehicles, flexible structures, robotic arms, electromagnetic actuators, or fluid systems. Both experimental and theoretical work is pursued on several fronts.<br><br>Current research projects in this area include:<br><br>Dynamics and control of airplane and space structures<br>Control of building structures due to earthquakes and winds<br>Control of switched and discontinuous systems<br>Automotive drive-train control<br>Chaotic advection in fluid flows, dispersion, reaction and diffusion in chaotic flows, and volume-preserving dynamical systems<br>Nonlinear geometric control theory<br>Optimal boundary control of vibrating structures such as plates, composite beams, and composite beams with piezoelectric layers