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Stephanie Newdick

snewdick _at_ stanford _dot_ edu

Stephanie Newdick

Alumni · now at Blue Origin

Stephanie Newdick is a Ph.D. student in Aeronautics and Astronautics. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2014. Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked as a software engineer and flight test engineer for Kitty Hawk Corporation (formerly Zee Aero). She is currently supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

Stephanie's research interests include real-time spacecraft motion-planning, grasping and manipulation in space, and adaptive control for autonomous robotics. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys backpacking, skiing, climbing - basically any excuse to go up a mountain.

Awards:

  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship

Publications

5 publications · full lab bibliography

2024
  1. J. Di, S. Cuevas-Quinones, S. Newdick, T. G. Chen, M. Pavone, M. G. A. Lapôtre, and M. Cutkosky, “Martian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations,” Int. Conf. on Space Robotics, 2024.
  2. T. G. Chen, S. Newdick, J. Di, C. Bosio, N. Ongole, M. Lapôtre, M. Pavone, and M. R. Cutkosky, “Locomotion as manipulation with ReachBot,” Science Robotics, vol. 9, no. 89, pp. eadi9762, 2024.
2023
  1. S. Newdick, “Optimization and Planning for Space Domain Awareness,” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2023.
  2. S. Newdick, N. Ongole, T. G. Chen, E. Schmerling, M. R. Cutkosky, and M. Pavone, “Motion Planning for a Climbing Robot with Stochastic Grasps,” Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2023.
  3. S. Newdick, T. G. Chen, B. Hockman, E. Schmerling, M. R. Cutkosky, and M. Pavone, “Designing ReachBot: System Design Process with a Case Study of a Martian Lava Tube Mission,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2023.