Francesco Bullo Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation College of Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara

Research
News: 2010 ACC Workshop on "Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Networks"

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks, by F. Bullo and J. Cortés and S. Martínez, Series in Applied Mathematics, Princeton, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-14195-4.

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems, by F. Bullo and A. D. Lewis, Texts in Applied Mathematics, Springer, 2004, ISBN 0-387-22195-6.

Publications: updated list of papers and technical reports, including:

• E. Frazzoli, M. Pavone, K. Savla, and S. L. Smith. Dynamic vehicle routing for robotic systems
• Florian Dörfler: Synchronization and transient stability in power networks and non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators
• Ruggero Carli and Paolo Frasca: Gossip coverage control for robotic networks: dynamical systems on the the space of partitions
• Giuseppe Notarstefano: Distributed abstract optimization via constraints consensus: theory and applications
• Ketan Savla and Emilio Frazzoli: Traveling salesperson problems for the Dubins vehicle (TAC '08)
• Jorge Cortés: Nonsmooth coordination and geometric optimization via distributed dynamical systems (SIGEST section of SIAM Review, Mar 2009)
• Sonia Martínez and Jorge Cortés: Motion coordination with distributed information (CSM Outstanding Paper Award, 2008)

• Joey W. Durham "Navigation, exploration and partitioning policies for robotic networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, joey at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Sandra H. Dandach "Distributed decision making" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, sandra at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Fabio Pasqualetti "Intrusion detection and network synchronization" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, fabiopass at gmail.com)
• Giulia Piovan "Network localization" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, giulia at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Vaibhav Srivastava "Sensor selection in decision making" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Anahita Mirtabatabaei "Chemical reaction networks and systems biology" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Florian Dörfler "Synchronization in power networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)

Bio
Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He 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.

His main research interest is multi-agent networks with application to robotic coordination, distributed computing and power networks. Other interests include vehicle routing, geometric control, and motion planning problems. He is the coauthor, with Andrew D. Lewis, of the book "Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems" (Springer, 2004, 0-387-22195-6) and, with Jorge Cortés and Sonia Martínez, of the book "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton, 2009, 978-0-691-14195-4). He is an IEEE Fellow. 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, 2010). He is a recipient of the 2003 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2008 IEEE CSM Outstanding Paper Award. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals, books, and refereed conferences. He has served or is serving on the Editorial Boards of the "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control," the "ESAIM: Control, Optimization, and the Calculus of Variations" and the "SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization."

Detailed CV.