Preston Culbertson

PhD Mechanical Engineering

Position: Lab Alumnus

Focus: Collborative Manipulation and Grasping

Preston Culbertson is currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2020 from Stanford University. Preston currently works with Prof. Mac Schwager in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab on multi-robot manipulation, distributed and robust adaptive control, and learning for decision-making and control. Preston is funded by the 2018 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to develop algorithms for multi-robot assembly of orbital structures using teams of small satellites.