This page contains information on what various students are working on, mainly so that I can get coverage over the entire range of problems we are working on and at the same time deconflict students. This page is restricted so that I don't have to try to be too careful about capturing everything exactly right.
| Name
| Comp
| Appl
| Theory
| Comments
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Networked Control Systems
- Packet-based estimation and control: individual packet loss --> group communications
- Distributed estimation and control: consensus --> composition (V&V)
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- Open: Choice of rate, reliability and ordering
- Open Topological consideration (spectra of Laplacians) (Zhipu?)
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John Carson
| SOS
| EDL
| V&V
| V&V using SOS. Current approach is to look at IQCs as a mechanism to capture constraints and then use SOS to construct proofs for things like RHC.
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Stefano Di Cairano
- Visitor: Jul 06 - Jul 07
- Student of A. Bemporad
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| Alice
| Hybrid
| Will probably do something hybrid and/or RHC related. One possibility would be to work out a proof for the supervisory logic for the vehicle state estimator on Alice.
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Michael Epstein
- ME:
- NDSEG fellowship through Sep 06
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| Alice?
| Stoch
| -
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Ziad Fares
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| Alice
| RHC, KF
| Thinking about possible projects. I suggested that he do something related to (1) RHC/Follow interaction; (2) NTG/Optragen based planner w/ stability; (3) state jumps. Working on image registration CDS 273 project.
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Melvin Flores
- CDS:
- Working part time at NGC
| OTG
| Space
| RHC
| Should graduate by Dec 2006. NURBS + finding control points that meet spatial constraints.
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Vijay Gupta
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| Stoch
| Nice collection of results in distributed estimation with packet loss.
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Zhipu Jin
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| RoboFlag
| Graph theory
| Has done some good work on cooperative control. Has a 1/2 postdoc lined up with Andrea Bertozzi at UCLA. Can probably continue on a postdoc at Caltech, focused on MURI infrastructure. Could also look at some work on spectra of Laplacians.
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Yasi Mostofi
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| Comms
| Cross-channel feedback for sensor networks
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Ling Shi
| Spread
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| Stoch
| Multiple aspects of packet-based control. Try to get focused on plug and play architectures for estimation and control, including effects of group communication protocols (spread)
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Demetri Spanos
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| Optim
| Looking at distributed computation and what can be accomplished. Need to push him to write up his results in journal form and work through a few significant applications. Will probably leave by fall.
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Abhishek Tiwari
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| C4ISR
| Stoch
| Working on spatio-temporal planning, specifically feedback-based strategies for sensor selection. Need to get something done in this direction relatively quickly, so that he can graduate.
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Autonomy
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Julia Braman
- ME: 2003-
- NSF fellowship through Aug 06
| MDS
| JPL, Alice
| CCL
| Goal and contingency management using MDS
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Fei Wang
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| Alice
| Learning
| Adaptation and learning for sensor fusion on Alice. Currently try to sort out how low in the hierarchy to go (eg, sensor --> action versus sensor --> map)
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Pete Trautman
| PF
| Allce
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| Interested in doing some work on MHE/PF for Alice. This could fit into some probabalistic reasoning about maps that would feed the V&V project.
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Nok Wongpiromsarn
- ME: 2005-
- Rotation student
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| RoboFlag
| CCL
| Doing a rotation project looking at how to do distributed surveillance using CCL-style proofs. Has approached me about jointly advising with Joel; deferred until after midterms.
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Biology
- Open: modeling and analysis of quorom sensing
- Open: insect-inspired flight control (Fuller?)
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Luis Soto
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| Marine Eco
| Dyn Sys
| Working on modeling of marine ecosystems, following up on CDS 273 project.
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Mary Dunlop
- ME: 2003-
- CSGF until Sep 06
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| E. Coli
| System ID
| Focused on system identification for synthetic biology, using both noise and forcing
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Elisa Franco
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| E. Coli
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| Long term interesting in redesigning the feedback system of a bacterium. Likely initial focus is on design and analysis of feedback circuits (simpler than chemotaxis). Possibly jointly advised by Christina?
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Sawyer Fuller
- BE: 2004?-
- NSF fellowship thru Sep 06
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| Drosophila
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| Interested in working on something bio-inspired, but robotics/control focused. Working on GUF for CDS 273; try to focus on something betwene MD's lab and my group.
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Henrik Sandberg
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| B. Subtilis
| Robust
| Trying to find some nice work on "rest of the world" modeling, aimed at biological circuits. Currently doing a CDS 273 project with Elowitz, which I hope will allow some biologically directed theory over the summer.
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Steve Waydo
| GUF
| Vision
| TBD
| Setting up a project on feedback based vision. Working on CDS 273 project with GUF.
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