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:

• Giuseppe Notarstefano: Distributed abstract optimization via constraints consensus: theory and applications
• Stephen L. Smith: Monotonic target assignment for robotic networks (TAC '09)
• 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)

• 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 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 "Transient stability in power networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB)
• Antonio Franchi "Patrolling with visibility constraints" (visiting PhD student, ECE Universita' di Roma, La Sapienza)

• American Control Conference (ACC'10), June 30 - July 2, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC'09), December 16-18, 2009, Shanghai, China
• ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Oct 12-14, 2009, Hollywood, CA
• Symposium on Networked Systems and Cooperative Control, Sep 28-29, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany
• IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC'09), Jul 8-10, 2009, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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.