Mechanical Engineering
2338 Engineering Bldg II, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, USA
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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 170A / ECE 181A:
Introduction to Robotics (Spring 05-07, 09-10)
ME 225FB:
Cooperative Control of Robotic Networks (Fall 07, 08, 09)
ME 155A:
Control Systems Design (Fall 04, 05, 06, 07)
ME 225FB: Special Topic Course: Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems (Winter 06)
Research
News: 2010 ACC Workshop on
"Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Networks"
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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.
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Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems, by
F. Bullo and A. D. Lewis, Texts in Applied Mathematics, Springer, 2004,
ISBN 0-387-22195-6.
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Publications: updated list of papers
and technical reports, including:
Slides: some indicative presentations.
PostDoctoral Research Associates
Ruggero Carli (Ph.D., Universita di Padova, Italia)
Gábor Orosz
(Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK)
Graduate Students
- 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)
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Anahita Mirtabatabaei
"Chemical reaction networks and systems biology"
(Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
- Florian Dörfler
"Synchronization in power networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
Former Students and their
theses
Karl J. Obermeyer
"Visibility problems for sensor networks and UAVs" (Ph.D., ME, UC Santa
Barbara, 2010), Controls Engineer, Air Force Research Lab
Shaunak D. Bopardikar
"Cooperative pursuit strategies" (Ph.D., ME, UC Santa Barbara, 2010),
Postdoc, UCSB
Stephen L. Smith "Task Allocation
for Robotic Networks" (Ph.D., ME, UC Santa Barbara, 2009), PostDoc,
MIT
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),
Research Scientist, 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
W. Todd Cerven (Ph.D., AAE, University of Illinois, 2003), Senior Engineer,
Aerospace Corporation
Gregory J. Toussaint (Ph.D., ECE, University of Illinois, 2000), Assistant
Professor, USAF Academy
Former Research Associates
Sonia Martínez, Assistant
Professor, UC San Diego
Jorge Cortés, Associate
Professor, UC San Diego
Kurt Plarre (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
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.
My articles on google scholar
bullo at engineering dot ucsb dot edu