Mailing Address
Mechanical Engineering
2338 Engineering Bldg II, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, USA
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How to reach me
Email: bullo at engineering.ucsb.edu
Tel: +1 (805) 893.5169, Fax: +1 (805) 893.8651
Office: Engineering Bldg II, Room 2338
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Teaching
ME 155A: Control Systems Design (Fall 04, Fall 05, Fall 06) --
Fall 07
ME 225FB: Special Topics: Cooperative Control of Robotic Networks --
Fall 07
ME 170A / ECE 181A: Introduction to Robotics: Robot Mechanics (Spring 05, Spring 06, Spring 07)
ME 225FB: Special Topics: Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems (Winter 06)
Research
Geometric Control
of Mechanical Systems, by F. Bullo and A. D. Lewis, Texts in
Applied Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 0-387-22195-6.
Index of Papers: an updated list of
papers and technical reports, including:
A few Mathematica libraries
PostDoctoral Research Associates
Kurt Plarre (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Ruggero Carli (Ph.D., Universita di Padova, Italia)
Graduate Students
- Stephen L. Smith "Task
allocation for robotic networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, stephen at
engr.ucsb.edu)
- Karl J. Obermeyer
"Visibility problems for sensor networks and UAVs" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB,
karl at umail.ucsb.edu)
- Shaunak D. Bopardikar
"Cooperative pursuit strategies" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, bshaunak at
umail.ucsb.edu)
- Joey Durham "Robotic network testbed for localization and mapping"
(Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, joey at engineering.ucsb.edu)
- Sandra Dandach "Distributed decision making" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB,
sandra at engineering.ucsb.edu)
- Fabio Pasqualetti "Intrusion detection" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB,
fabiopass at gmail.com)
- Giulia Piovan "Network localization" (visiting Laurea student, ECE
Universita' di Padova, gpiovan at umail.ucsb.edu)
- Fabio Morbidi "Multi-vehicle visibility via controlled invariance"
(visiting PhD student, ECE Universita' di Siena, morbidi at dii.unisi.it)
- Nathan Owen "Cooperative decision making in mixed networks"
(Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
- Vaibhav Srivastava
(Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
- Anahita Tabatabaei (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
- Paolo Frasca
"Cooperative deployment with information constraints" (visiting PhD
student, Math Politecnico di Torino, paolo.frasca at polito.it)
Former Students and their
theses
Sara Susca "Boundary
Estimation and Patrolling" (Ph.D., ECE, UC Santa Barbara, 2007),
Senior Engineer, Honeywell
Nikolaj Nordkvist
"Motion Control along Relative Equilibria" (Ph.D., Math, Technical
University of Denmark, 2007), Postdoc, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ketan Savla "UAV networks with
motion and communication constraints" (Ph.D., ECE, UC Santa Barbara, 2007),
Postdoc, MIT
Anurag Ganguli (Ph.D.,
ECE, University of Illinois, 2007), Senior Engineer, UtopiaCompression
Corporation
Giuseppe Notarstefano
(Ph.D., Information Eng., Universita' di Padova, 2007), Assistant
Professor, Universita' di Lecce
Todd Cerven (Ph.D., AAE, University of Illinois, 2003), Senior Engineer,
Aerospace Corporation
Gregory Toussaint (Ph.D., ECE, University of Illinois, 2000), Assistant
Professor, USAF Academy
Former Research Associates
Sonia Martinez, Assistant
Professor, UC San Diego
Jorge Cortes, Assistant
Professor, UC San Diego
Events, Travel and Slides
- IEEE Conference in
Decision and Control (CDC'08), December 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
- American Control
Conference (ACC'08), Jun 11-13, 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 3rd Workshop
on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control
(LHMNLC'06), July 19-21, 2006, Nagoya, Japan
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NSF Workshop: Future Directions in Systems Research for Networked
Sensing, May 25-26, Boston, MA
- Hybrid Systems: Computation and
Control, Mar 29-31, 2006, Santa Barbara, California
Slides:
Coordination in Multi-Agent
Networks
- Benelux Meeting on
Systems and Control, Mar 13-15, 2006, Heeze, The Netherlands
Slides: Coordination in
Multi-Agent and Visually-Guided Agent Networks
- IPAM Workshop on
"Swarming by Nature and by Design", Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2006, University of
California at Los Angeles, CA
-
Summer School on Modelling and Control of Complex Dynamical Systems,
Jul 18-23, 2005, Bertinoro, Italia
- Minisymposia on Distributed
motion coordination, at the SIAM Conference on Applications of
Dynamical Systems, May 22-26, 2005, Snowbird, Utah
- Workshop on Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems at the 43rd IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2004, Bahamas
Slides: Geometric Control of Mechanical
Systems
- Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control, Jun 2003, Block Island,
RI
Slides: Nonsmooth
Coordination Algorithms
- 2nd IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear
Control (LHMNLC'03), April 2003, Seville, Spain
Slides: Modeling and Trajectory Design for
Mechanical Control Systems
Bio
Francesco Bullo received the Laurea degree "summa cum laude" in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1994, and the
Ph.D. degree in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute
of Technology in 1999.
From 1998 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor with the Coordinated
Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He
is currently an Associate Professor with the Mechanical Engineering
Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His research interests include motion coordination for multi-agent
networks, motion planning for autonomous vehicles, and geometric control of
mechanical systems. He is a recipient of the 2003 ONR Young Investigator
Award. He is the coauthor (with Andrew D. Lewis) of the book "Geometric
Control of Mechanical Systems" (New York: Springer Verlag, 2004,
0-387-22195-6). His students' papers were finalists for the Best Student
Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2002, 2005,
2007), and the American Control Conference (2005, 2006). He has published
more than 100 papers in international journals, books, and refereed
conferences. He serves on the Editorial Board of the "IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control" and of the "SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization."
Detailed CV.
What is Motion Coordination?
- Take a look at these slides
(last revision, March 31, 2006).
- Read an accessible introduction that
we prepared for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (last revision, April 9,
2006 -- but based on ideas developed in 2001-2004 timeframe).
- Read a second shorter overview that was
presented at IEEE CDC 2005.
- Our most cited work is on coverage control.
The example of the distributed art gallery deployment problem is discussed
here.
- In two detailed articles we provide a formal description of a vast
class of motion coordination models, problems and algorithms. Synchronous
robotic networks: Models and
complexity and algorithms and
analysis.
My articles on google scholar
bullo at engineering dot ucsb dot edu