Max Muchen Sun

Max Muchen Sun

Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Northwestern University Center for Robotics and Biosystems. I am a member of the Interactive and Emergent Autonomy Lab, advised by Prof. Todd Murphey. I also collaborate with Dr. Peter Trautman at Honda Research Institute (USA).

The goal of my research is to create proactive and cooperative autonomous agents that are self-sufficient in arbitrary environments. My work ranges from deriving formal optimality principles to developing computationally efficient algorithms, intersecting with decision-making, optimization, and machine learning. Applications of my research include human-robot interaction, active sensing, multi-agent coordination, robust perception, and soft robot locomotion.

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Publications

Fast Ergodic Search with Kernel Functions
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025
Fast Ergodic Search with Kernel Functions
Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for Crowd Navigation
The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2024
Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for Crowd Navigation
Automated Gait Generation For Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Automated Gait Generation For Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds
Scale-Invariant Fast Functional Registration
International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2022
Scale-Invariant Fast Functional Registration
Human Robot Pacing Mismatch
Workshop of Close-Proximity Human Robot Collaboration, RSS 2022
Human Robot Pacing Mismatch