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Richard M. Murray Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems Division of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology Papers Research Group Teaching Contact

Other Activities: Group Schedule CDS 90 CDS 270-2 CDS 273 CS/EE/ME 75 IST

Publications

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• Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (textbook)
• Alice: An Information-Rich Autonomous Vehicle for High-Speed Desert Navigation (JFR 06)
• New Design Principles for Estimation over Fading Channels in Mobile Sensor Networks (CDC 05)
• On a Stochastic Sensor Selection Algorithm with Applications in Sensor Scheduling and Sensor Coverage (Automatica 04)
• Discrete State Estimators for Systems on a Lattice (Automatica 06)

Research

My group's research is in the application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological systems. Current projects include integration of control, communications, and computer science in multi-agent systems, information dynamics in networked feedback systems, analysis of insect flight control systems, and synthetic biology using genetically-encoded finite state machines. Template:Active projects [Archive]

Group

Lauren Bowers† (UIUC) Julia Braman (ME) John Carson (ME) Tim Chung* (ME) Stefano di Cairano+ (U. Siena) Mary Dunlop (ME) Michael Epstein (ME)

Ziad Fares+ (Supelec) Melvin Flores (CDS) Sawyer Fuller° (BE) Elisa Franco (CDS) Vijay Gupta Zhipu Jin (EE) Doug MacMynowski (CDS) Yasamin Mostofi (EE)

Henrik Sandberg (CDS) Ling Shi (CDS) Demetri Spanos (CDS) Abhishek Tiwari (EE) Johan Ugander† (Lund) Fei Wang (EE) Steve Waydo* (CDS)

* co-advised students

+ visiting researchers

° rotation students

† undergraduates

Former graduate students:

• Vijay Gupta - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2006
• Lars Cremean - Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, June 2006
• Demetri Spanos - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, March 2006 (thesis)
• Sean Humbert - Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, June 2005 (thesis)
• Jimmy Fung - Ph.D. in Aeronautics, June 2005
• Dmitriy Kogan# - M.S. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2005
• Domitilla Del Vecchio - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, March 2005 (thesis)
• Bill Dunbar - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2004

Robert Behnken (thesis) Adam Hayes* Ben Shapiro (thesis) Robert Bodenheimer* Scott Kelly (thesis) Sudipto Sur (thesis) Francesco Bullo (thesis) Andrew Lewis (thesis)

Amber Thweatt# Raff D'Andrea* Robert M'Closkey (thesis) Jorge Tierno* Alex Fax (thesis) Mark Milam thesis] David van Gogh# Samantha (Feakins) Daly#

Michiel van Nieuwstadt (thesis) Tony Vanelli# (thesis) Martha Gallivan (thesis) Clancy Rowley* Yong Wang (thesis) Sonja Glavaski* Muruhan Rathinam (thesis) Simon Yeung (thesis)

# Masters or Engineers degree

Former postdocs:

Raktim Bhattacharya (2002-04) Feng-Li Lian (2001-02) Nicolas Petit (2001-02) Brianno Coller (1995-97)

Kristi Morgansen (1999-2001) B. N. Shashikanth* (1998-2000) Tamer Inanc (2002-04) Pascal Morin (1996-97)

Willem Sluis (1994-96) Eric Klavins* (2001-03) Reza Olfati-Saber (2001-04) Herbert Streumper (1997-99)

Teaching

The list below is the courses that I have taught at Caltech in the last 5 years. The course links will take you to the (current) course homepage, where you can find the syllabus, handouts, and homework sets. The links for specific terms take you to the course homepage for that term. Links to older courses are available on a separate page.

• CDS 90 - Senior Thesis in Control and Dynamical Systems (04-05, 05-06)
• CDS 101 - Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems (Fa02, Fa03, Fa04)
• CDS 110 - Introduction to Control Theory (97-98, 01-02, 02-03, 03-04, Fa04, Wi 06)
• CDS 190 - Independent Work in Control and Dynamical Systems
• CDS 202, Geometry of Nonlinear Systems (Wi93, Wi94, Wi04)
• CDS 270 - Networked Control Systems (Sp 06)
• CDS 273 - Frontiers in Control and Dynamical Systems (Sp01, Sp02, Sp03, Sp04, Sp05, Sp 06)

Contact

Mailing Address Richard M. Murray Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81 California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 USA	Contact information E-mail: murray@cds.caltech.edu Office: 109 Steele, (626) 395-6460 Asst: Gloria Bain, x4140 Labs: 12 STL, 110 GUG (x2319)
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