Zachary Manchester
Zachary Manchester is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he holds the Boeing Career Development Professorship. He previously served as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He is best known for developing ALTRO, a fast solver for constrained trajectory optimization, and for his research in robotics, control, optimization, and space exploration.
“Developer of ALTRO (a fast constrained trajectory optimization solver) and control contraction metrics. The Trajectory Bundle Method (Reference [8]) by his group is identified as the closest prior work to this paper's approach.”
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