Orion T. Taylor '14

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Portrait of Orion Taylor

education

  • B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Olin College of Engineering
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  • PhD Mechanical Engineering, MIT

select courses taught

  • Quantitative Engineering Analysis 2
  • Quantitative Engineering Analysis 3
  • Applied Math for Engineers
  • Engineering System Analysis
  • Dynamics

awards

  • Outstanding Manipulation Paper Award (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2022)

research

  • Robotic Manipulation

Orion completed his bachelor’s degree at Olin, where he studied both mechanical and electrical engineering.

He continued his studies at MIT, where he worked towards improving the dexterity of robotic manipulation systems. Currently a visiting faculty member at Olin, Orion teaches a variety of math and engineering courses, including Quantitative Engineering Analysis (QEA), and Engineering Systems Analysis (ESA). He particularly enjoys working on math and programming challenges, creating numerical simulations and visualizations, writing difficult kinematics and dynamics problems for his students to solve, and covertly providing engineering homework help on reddit.

Select Publications

Orion Taylor, Neel Doshi, and Alberto Rodriguez. "Object manipulation through contact configuration regulation: multiple and intermittent contacts" IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.

Orion Taylor, Neel Doshi, and Alberto Rodriguez. "Manipulation of unknown objects via contact configuration regulation" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.

Orion Taylor and Alberto Rodriguez. "Optimal shape and motion planning for dynamic planar manipulation" Autonomous Robots, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019 (Journal Article), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2017 (Conference Paper).