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Cache effects in object-oriented code: computer architecture meets programming

A simple demonstration revealed five layers of computer science & engineering abstraction fighting each other

Feb 10 • Avik De and Greg Anderson

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Mapping algorithms to custom silicon - Part 1

An introduction to the messy middle between software and microarchitecture

Published on Chip Insights • Feb 9

"Is it learning?" Online motor adaptation in end-to-end robotics

Part 2: Where the low-level controller responds to the unexpected

Feb 3 • Avik De

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January 2026

The architecture behind “end-to-end” robotics pipelines

Part 1: Where the learning stack ends and the control stack begins

Jan 26 • Avik De

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What von Neumann understood about the architecture of intelligence before we built AI

The Computer and the Brain anticipated both the successes and shortcomings of deep learning AI 70 years ago

Jan 19 • Avik De

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The AI world models debate and its foreshadowing on robotics

Plus, five facets of comparison for the two approaches

Jan 14 • Avik De

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December 2025

Model-predictive control of RoboBee flapping flight

Hierarchical model-predictive and data-driven control method published in IJRR (2022)

Dec 24, 2025 • Avik De

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December 2024

Power-efficient and safe mobile robots

Talk at OSU CoRIS seminar

Dec 23, 2024 • Avik De

Approximating cyclic dynamics utilizing symmetry

Paper on Hybrid averaging (IJRR 2018)

Dec 22, 2024 • Avik De

Using models to design a RoboBee

Paper in IROS 2020 about using templates and optimization for robot design

Dec 22, 2024 • Avik De

Minitaur bounding, pronking using vertical hopper compositions

Simple controllers produce exciting quadrupedal behaviors - paper in IJRR 2018

Dec 22, 2024 • Avik De

What are robot dogs, and what are they good for?

A brief what and why of quadrupedal robots, originally drafted for a magazine article

Dec 21, 2024 • Avik De