Student Projects

This page contains information on what various students are working on, mainly so that I can get coverage over the entire range of problems we are working on and at the same time deconflict students. This page is restricted so that I don't have to try to be too careful about capturing everything exactly right.

Name	Comp	Appl	Theory	Comments
Networked Control Systems Packet-based estimation and control: individual packet loss → group communications Distributed estimation and control: consensus → composition (V&V) Choice of rate, reliability and ordering
John Carson ME 1/2 time at JPL	SOS	EDL	V&V	V&V using SOS. Current approach is to look at IQCs as a mechanism to capture constraints and then use SOS to construct proofs for things like RHC.
Stefano Di Cairano Visitor: Jul 06 - Jul 07 Student of A. Bemporad		Alice	Hybrid	Will probably do something hybrid and/or RHC related. One possibility would be to work out a proof for the supervisory logic for the vehicle state estimator on Alice.
Michael Epstein ME: NDSEG fellowship through Sep 06		Alice?	Stoch	Has worked with Ling on packet-based; try to move toward input buffers and estimation w/ intermittent knowledge about control that was applied. Need to move in a direction that involves implementation
Ling Shi CDS:	Spread		Stoch	Multiple aspects of packet-based control. Try to get focused on plug and play architectures for estimation and control, including effects of group communication protocols (spread)
Autonomy
Julia Braman ME: 2003- NSF fellowship through Aug 06	MDS	JPL, Alice	CCL	Goal and contingency management using MDS
Biology
Luis Soto CSULA MS student		Marine Eco	Dyn Sys	Working on modeling of marine ecosystems, following up on CDS 273 project.
Mary Dunlop ME: 2003- CSGF until Sep 06		E. Coli	System ID	Focused on system identification for synthetic biology, using both noise and forcing
Elisa Franco CDS: 2005-		E. Coli		Long term interesting in redesigning the feedback system of a bacterium. Likely initial focus is on design and analysis of feedback circuits (simpler than chemotaxis). Possibly jointly advised by Christina?