Northwestern University, Evanston, IL ∙ August 2013

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.
• Member of the Neuroscience and Robotics Lab.
• Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellow DOE SCGF fellowship award winner.

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO ∙ August 2009

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, magna cum laude.

University of Colorado, Postdoctoral Scholar ∙ Boulder, CO ∙ Fall 2013 – present

Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Intern ∙ Glendale, CA ∙ Summer 2008

The Aerospace Corporation, Intern ∙ Chantilly, VA ∙ Summer 2006

US Patent Publication 20100227527 “Robotic Marionettes on Magnetically-Supported and Highly
Mobile Puppeteer Platforms,” L. S. Smoot, T. M. Caldwell and G. W. Schnuckle, Sept. 9,
2010.

PhD Thesis

[1]

T.M. Caldwell. Iterative methods in switched system optimal control, 2013.

Journal

[2]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Sufficient descent and backtracking for optimal mode scheduling. (in preparation—PDF)

[3]

T.M. Caldwell and N. Correll. A reachability-based probabilistic planner for unstable dynamic systems. (in preparation)

[4]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Single integration optimization of linear time-varying switched systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57:1592-1597, 2012.

[5]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Switching mode generation and optimal estimation with application to skid-steering. Automatica, 47:50-65, 2011.

Master’s Thesis

[6]

T.M. Caldwell. Second-order optimal estimation of switching times for switched autonomous systems, 2009.

Conference

[7]

T. M. Caldwell, D. Coleman, and N. Correll. Robotic manipulation for identification of flexible objects. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2014. (in print).

[8]

T. M. Caldwell, D. Coleman, and N. Correll. Optimal parameter identification for discrete mechanical systems with application to flexible object manipulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, p898-905, 2014.

[9]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Projection-based switched system optimization: Absolute continuity of the line search, Conference on Decision and Control, p700-706, 2012.

[10]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Projection-based switched system optimization, American Control Conference, 2012. p4552-4557, 2012.

[11]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Single integration optimization of linear time-varying switched systems, American Control Conference, p2024-2030, 2011.

[12]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. An adjoint method for second-order switching time optimization, Conference on Decision and Control, p2155-2162, 2010.

[13]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Relaxed optimization for mode estimation in skid-steering, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, p5423 – 5428, 2010.

[14]

T.M. Caldwell and T.D. Murphey. Second-order optimal estimation of slip state for a simple slip-steered vehicle, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, p133-139, 2009.

• Coached a high school’s robotics team.
• Active member in the rock climbing community.
• Participated in developing the Coursera class: “Everything is the Same: Modeling Engineered
  Systems”.