Controls, Learning, Autonomy and Robotics

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Control is about automation and intelligence. Control engineers design the algorithms and software that give systems agility and balance, as well as the ability to adapt, learn and discover when confronted with uncertainty. Control engineers create agile robots, vision-based navigation algorithms, congestion resistant data-networks, highway automation and air traffic coordination software, missile guidance systems, disk-drive controllers, efficiency optimizing engine electronics and they are sought after for non-engineering applications such as economic forecasting and portfolio management. The theory of control is intimately intertwined with and includes the science of system identification, which concerns the creation of systems for intelligently reducing large amounts of experimental and historical data to simple mathematical models that can be used either for forecasting or to design automatic control systems.

 

Group Director: Rahul Jain

Topic Areas

Control Theory: Mathematical Foundations of Nonlinear, Robust, Adaptive and Quantum Control
Optimization: Theory and Algorithms
Multi-Agent Systems Control: Decentralized Control, Dynamic Games and Learning
Learning and Control: System Identification and Learning-based Control
Intelligent Autonomy: Learning and Formal Methods for Control
Robotics: Vision-based control and Bio-inspired robots
Power Systems: Control, Analysis and Economics
Transportation: Vehicle and Highway Automation and Traffic Management
Networks and Networked Control: Control of networks and Control over networks

Faculty

Control Systems

Somil Bansal
Somil Bansal
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
Paul Bogdan
Paul Bogdan
Jack Munushian Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Petros Ioannou
Petros A Ioannou
A.V. "Bal" Balakrishnan Chair, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Rahul Jain
Rahul Jain
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mihailo Jovanovic
Mihailo Jovanovic
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Bart Kosko
Bart Andrew Kosko
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Law
Daniel Lidar
Daniel Amihud Lidar
Viterbi Professorship in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy
Ashutosh Nayyar
Ashutosh Nayyar
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pierluigi Nuzzo
Pierluigi Nuzzo
Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Feifei Qian
Feifei Qian
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering