Ethan Chandler Named a 2026–2027 Amazon Robotics Fellow

Sep 3, 2026 1 min read

Congratulations to Ethan Chandler, a Ph.D. student in the ACP Lab, on being selected as a 2026–2027 Amazon Robotics Fellowship recipient! Ethan’s research develops optimal control methods for underactuated systems such as quadrotors and legged robots. His new algebraic Riccati equation for spectrally discretized optimal control problems reduces the solve-time complexity from cubic to linear, enabling highly accurate agile motion, with quadrotor experiments reaching sub-centimeter accuracy at speeds above 10 m/s.

Read the WPI announcement.

Guanrui Li
Guanrui Li
Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering

Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering at WPI and director of the ACP Lab.