CDS research areas

Faculty and students in CDS are active in a number of research areas.

Primary theoretical areas of research include:

• robust control
  
• multivariable and nonlinear dynamical systems
• multiscale modeling
• optimal and decentralized control
• system identification and estimation theory
• communications and information theory

Applications include:

• mixing and transport processes in fluids
• cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems
• networking and communication systems
• biological systems
• quantum measurement and control
• control of nonlinear and mechanical systems
• nonlinear and chaotic dynamics
• mechanics
• nonlinear flight dynamics for highly maneuverable aircraft
• robotics

Selected, active multi-investigator projects:

• <a href="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/sec/">Software Enabled Control</a> (DARPA)
• <a href="http://www.iqi.caltech.edu">Institute for Quantum Information</a> (NSF)
• <a href="http://minty.caltech.edu/MURI/">Quantum Communication Networks</a> (MURI)
• <a href="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/%7Emurray/projects/darpa01-mica/">Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-teams</a> (DARPA)
• <a href="http://www.seas.ucla.edu/coopcontrol/">Cooperative Control</a> (MURI)
• <a href="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/%7Emurray/projects/durip01-mvwt/index.html">Integrated Computing, Communications, and Control</a> (AFOSR)
• <a href="http://sbml.org/">Systems Biology</A> (NIH)
• <a href="http://www.cimms.caltech.edu">Center for Multiscale Modeling and Simulation</a> (CIT, NSF)
• <a href="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/%7Emarsden/projects/ocean.html">Adaptive Ocean Sampling Network</a> (ONR)