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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

Mechanical Engineering
2338 Engineering Bldg II, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070, USA
Email: bullo at engineering.ucsb.edu
Tel: +1 (805) 893.5169, Fax: +1 (805) 893.8651
Office: Engineering Bldg II, Room 2338


Teaching
ME 225FB: Cooperative Control of Robotic Networks -- Course Announcement (pdf) and Syllabus (Fall 07, 08, 09)
ME 155A: Control Systems Design (Fall 04, 05, 06, 07)
ME 170A / ECE 181A: Introduction to Robotics (Spring 05, 06, 07, 09)
ME 225FB: Special Topic Course: 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, ISBN 978-0-691-14195-4.
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
Ruggero Carli (Ph.D., Universita di Padova, Italia)
Gábor Orosz (Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK)

Graduate Students Former Students and their theses
Stephen L. Smith "Task Allocation for Robotic Networks" (Ph.D., ME, UC Santa Barbara, 2009), PostDoct, 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)
Former Visitors
Dario Cazzaro (visiting M.S. student, University of Pisa, Italy)
Luca Invernizzi (visiting M.S. student, University of Pisa, Italy)
Fabio Morbidi "Multi-vehicle visibility via controlled invariance" (visiting PhD student, ECE Universita' di Siena, morbidi at dii.unisi.it)
Kazuma Sekiguchi "Attitude estimation via weighted Karcher mean" (visiting PhD student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, sekiguchi at sc.ctrl.titech.ac.jp)
Paolo Frasca "Territory partitioning for gossiping robots" (visiting PhD student, Math Dept, Politecnico di Torino, paolo.frasca at polito.it)

Selected 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, 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.


My articles on google scholar
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