Ling Shi     Control and Dynamical Systems (MC 107-81)     California Institute of Technology     Pasadena, CA 91125, USA     Office: Rm 4 Steele     Advisor: Richard M. Murray     Email: shiling AT cds.caltech.edu      Tel:  (626) 395-2313     Fax: (626) 395-6170     [ Research  | Publications | Resume | Classes | Miscellaneous ]

• 8/12: Successfully defended Ph.D thesis.
• 7/15: CDC 2008 paper accepted.
• 7/14: Invited talk and visit, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
• 7/7:  ICARCV 08 paper accepted.
• 7/7-11: Invited session on networked control systems, IFAC 08, Seoul, Korea.
• 6/16-19: Invited talk and visit, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 6/9-10: Invited talk and visit, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
• 6/6: Presented two papers at FeBid 2008 at Annapolis, MD.
• 5/10: One paper has been submitted to an invited session on "Networked Sensing and Control" at ICARCV 08.
• 4/23: FeBid 08 papers are accepted.
• 4/1 - 6/2: I'm teaching a class on "Estimation and Control over Wireless Sensor Networks" this spring term. [course homepage]
• 3/30: Two papers have been submitted to FeBid 2008.
• 2/20: One paper has been submitted to CDC 2008.

• Networked Embedded Control Systems: Scheduling, Sensing, Estimation and Control
• Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks
• Distributed Control and Optimization
• Hybrid Systems and Control
• Sensor Fusion and Signal Processing

1. Kalman Filtering Over a Packet Dropping Network: a Probabilistic Approach
   Ling Shi, Michael Epstein and Richard M. Murray
   Tenth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Dec 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam. Submitted.

2. Network Lifetime Maximization Via Sensor Trees Construction and Scheduling
   Ling Shi, Agostino Capponi, Karl Henrik Johansson and Richard M. Murray
   Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, June 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

3. Estimating Sensor Lifetime using an Event Based Control Strategy
   Agostino Capponi, Ling Shi, Concetta Pilotto and Richard M. Murray
   Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, June 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

4. Optimal Sensor Hop Selection: Sensor Energy Minimization and Network Lifetime Maximization with Guaranteed System Performance
   Ling Shi, Karl Henrik Johansson and Richard M. Murray
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, Dec 2008. (Submitted)                                                     

5. Resources Optimization with Guaranteed System Performance: When Control Loop is Closed Over a Wireless Sensor Network
   Ling Shi, Karl Henrik Johansson and Richard M. Murray
   Submitted.               

6. Control Over a Packet Dropping Network with Norm Bounded Uncertainties  
   Ling Shi, Michael Epstein and Richard M. Murray
   Special Issue on "Networked Embedded Hybrid Control Systems",  Asian Journal of Control,  Jan 2008 (preprint) 

7. Probabilistic Performance of State Estimation Across a Lossy Network
   Michael Epstein, Ling Shi, Abhishek Tiwari and Richard M. Murray
   Automatica,  2008 (preprint)  

 Classes I took in my college and graduate schools can be found here.

 Links:

• Caltech Homepage

• CDS Homepage

• Caltech Library

• IEEE Xplore

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