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Francesco Bullo

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

Mailing Address
Mechanical Engineering
2338 Engineering Bldg II, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, USA
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


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, Fall 08)
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
DCRN Cover Page Distributed Control of Robotic Networks, by F. Bullo and J. Cortés and S. Martínez, Series in Applied Mathematics, Princeton, 2009, to appear
GCMS Cover Page 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:

Slides: some indicative presentations.


PostDoctoral Research Associates
Kurt Plarre (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Ruggero Carli (Ph.D., Universita di Padova, Italia)

Graduate Students 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 Martínez, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Jorge Cortés, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Special issue of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
Control and Optimization in Cooperative Networks

(OLD Submission: 1 November 2006)
NEW Submission DEADLINE: 31 December 2006


Events and Travel

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, to appear). 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 "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control" and of the "SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization."

Detailed CV.


What is Motion Coordination?


My articles on google scholar
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