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

Research

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:

• Stephen L. Smith: Monotonic target assignment for robotic networks (Best Student Paper Award Finalist, CDC'07)
• Anurag Ganguli and Jorge Cortés: Distributed deployment of asynchronous guards in art galleries (Best Student Paper Award, ACC'06)
• Ketan Savla and Emilio Frazzoli: On traveling salesperson problems for Dubins' vehicle (Best Student Paper Award Finalist, CDC-ECC'05)
• 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)

• 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" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, giulia at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Vaibhav Srivastava "Sensor selection in decision making" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Anahita Mirtabatabaei (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Florian Doerfler (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Antonio Franchi "Patrolling with visibility constraints" (visiting PhD student, ECE Universita' di Roma, La Sapienza)

• IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC'09), December 16-18, 2009 Shanghai, China
• Symposium on Networked Systems and Cooperative Control, Sep 28-29, Stuttgart, Germany
• IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC'09), Jul 8-10, 2009, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Third Workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineering Systems, Jun 3-4, 2009, Block Island, Rhode Island
• American Control Conference (ACC'09), Jun 10-12, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  
  
• Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Mar 29-31, 2006, Santa Barbara, California
• Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Mar 13-15, 2006, Heeze, The Netherlands
• Workshop on Network Embedded Sensing and Control, Oct 17-18, 2005, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
  
• 2nd IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNLC'03), April 2003, Seville, Spain
  

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 a 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" (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). 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 150 papers in international journals, books, and refereed conferences. He serves on the Editorial Board of the "SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization."

Detailed CV.