Publications

Reports

• Annual Report 2002

BU Publications

• J. Baillieul, "Bi-Directional Electrostatic Actuator Operated with Charge Control," Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Electrostatics Society of America/Institute of Electrostatics Japan Annual Conference, June 25-28, 2002, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (with T. Sugimoto, M. Horenstein, and K. Nonaka). (Also to be submitted to Journal of Electrostatics (Elsevier).)
• J. Baillieul, "Feedback Designs in Information-based Control," Stochastic Theory and Control -Proceedings of Workshop held at the University of Kansas, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002, pp. 35-57.
• J. Baillieul, "Feedback Coding for Information-Based Control - Operating Near the Data-Rate Limit," in the Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, December, 2002, pp. 3229- 3236.
• J. Baillieul and A. Suri, "Information Patterns and Hedging Brockett's Theorem in Controlling Vehicle Formations," submitted to the 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December, 2003.
• K. Li and J. Baillieul, "The Appropriate Quantization for Digital Finite Communication Bandwidth (DFCB) Control," submitted to the 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December, 2003.
• A.C. Smith and J. Baillieul, "Vortex Models for the Control of Stall," submitted to the 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December, 2003.
• Perreault, J. A., Bifano, T. G., Levine, B.M., and Horenstein, M., "Adaptive optic correction using micro- electromechanical deformable mirrors," Optical Engineering [41]5, pp. 561-566, 2002.
• Horenstein, M., Pappas, S., Fishov, A., and Bifano, T.G., "Electrostatic Micromirrors for Subaperturing in an Adaptive Optics System," Journal of Electrostatics, Vol. 54, pp. 321-332, 2002.
• Weyrauch T., Vorontsov M. A., Bifano T. G., Hammer J. A., Cohen M., and Cauwenberghs G., "Microscale adaptive optics: wavefront control with a µ-mirror array and a VLSI stochastic gradient descent controller," Applied Optics, [40] 24 pp. 4243-4253, 2001.
• I. Ch. Paschalidis, "Inventory Control for Supply Chains with Service Level Constraints: A Synergy between Large Deviations and Perturbation Analysis'' (with Y. Liu, C.G. Cassandras, C. Panayiotou), January 2002; Revised November 2002, to appear The Annals of Operations Research (Special Volume on Stochastic Models of Production- Inventory Systems). Abstract.
• I. Ch. Paschalidis, "Target-Pursuing Policies for Multiclass Queueing Networks" (with C. Su and M.C. Caramanis), July 2002, submitted for publication. Abstract.
• I. Ch. Paschalidis, "Pricing in Multiservice Loss Networks: Static Pricing, Asymptotic Optimality, and Demand Substitution Effects" (with Y. Liu), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 10 (2002), No. 3, pages 425-438. Abstract, Paper Companion.
• I. Ch. Paschalidis, "Large Deviations-based Asymptotics for Inventory Control in Supply Chains'' (with Y. Liu), Operations Research, in print. Abstract.
• I. Ch. Paschalidis, "Target-Pursuing Policies for Open Multiclass Queueing Networks" (with C. Su and M.C. Caramanis), Proceedings of the INFOCOM Conference, April 2003, San Francisco, California.

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Harvard Publications

• Roger Brockett, "Pattern Generation and the control of Nonlinear Systems," Harvard University preprint. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• Magnus Egersdtedt and Roger Brockett, "Feedback Can Reduce the Specification Complexity of Motor Programs," to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, February 2003.

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UIUC Publications

• P.R. Kumar, "The Distributed Nonlinear Stochastic World of Networks." Control of Stochastic Systems. Submitted to Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics, Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA, August 26-30, 2002, October 13, 2002.
• P.R. Kumar, "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: From Theory to Protocols.'' Submitted for publication as an Invited Chapter in, Ad Hoc Wireless Networking, Edited by Xiuzhen Cheng, Xiao Huang and Ding-Zhu Du. To be published by Kluwer. October 13, 2002.
• Piyush Gupta and P. R. Kumar, "Towards an Information Theory of Large Networks: An Achievable Rate Region." Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Revised Nov 13, 2002.
• V. Borkar and P. R. Kumar, "Dynamic Cesaro-Wardrop Equilibration in Networks," To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Revised Nov 4, 2002.
• Feng Xue and P. R. Kumar, "The number of neighbors needed for connectivity of wireless networks.'' Submitted to Wireless Networks. April 1, 2002. .
• Liang-Liang Xie and P. R. Kumar, "A Network Information Theory for Wireless Communication: Scaling Laws and Optimal Operation." Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. April 12, 2002.
• Kurt Plarre and P. R. Kumar, "Extended Message Passing Algorithm for Inference in Loopy Gaussian Graphical Models." Submitted to Computer Networks. October 15, 2002.
• S. Narayanaswamy, V. Kawadia, R. S. Sreenivas, and P. R. Kumar, "Power Control in Ad-Hoc Networks: Theory, Architecture, Algorithm and Implementation of the COMPOW Protocol." Proceedings of the European Wireless Conference -- Next Generation Wireless Networks: Technologies, Protocols, Services and Applications, pp.156--162, Florence, Italy, Feb.~25--28, 2002.
• Liang-Liang Xie and P. R. Kumar, "New Results in Network Information Theory: Scaling Laws and Optimal Operational Modes for Wireless Networks." pp. 3205--3208, Proc. 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Dec., 2002.
• Vikas Kawadia and P. R. Kumar, "Power Control and Clustering in Ad Hoc Networks." To appear in INFOCOM 2003, April1, 2003.

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Maryland Publications

• E. W. Justh and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Equilibria and steering laws for planar formations", submitted to Systems and Control Letters, September 2002.
• E. W. Justh and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "A simple control law for UAV formation flying", Institute for Systems Research Technical Report, TR 2002-38, 35 pages.
• Fumin Zhang and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Formation dynamics under a class of control laws", in Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, (May 8-12, Anchorage), pp 1678-1685. American Automatic Control Council, Philadelphia.
• Fumin Zhang and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Coordinated orbit transfer for satellite clusters", in Proceedings of 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (December 10-13, 2002, Las Vegas), pp 4095-4100, IEEE, New York.
• S. Andersson and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Degenerate gradient flows: a comparison study of convergence rate estimates", in Proceedings of 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (December 10-13, 2002, Las Vegas), pp. 4712-4717, IEEE, New York.
• P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Control over a free-space optical channel", Proceedings of 41st IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, (December 10-13, 2002, Las vegas), 2029-2031, IEEE, New York.
• B. Azimi-Sadjadi and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Approximate nonlinear filtering and its application in navigation", submitted to Automatica, April 2002.
• B. Azimi-Sadjadi and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Change detection for nonlinear systems: a particle filtering approach", in Proceedings of 2002 American Control Conference, (May 8-12, Anchorage), pp. 4074-4079, American Automatic Control Council, Philadelphia.
• Handzel and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Biomimetic sound source localization", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 2, no. 6, 10 pages, December 2002 (in press).
• Fumin Zhang, Michael Goldgeier and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Control of Small Formations Using Shape Coordinates", to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation,(May 12-17 Taipei, Taiwan,2003), (6 pages).
• D. Napoletani, C. A. Berenstein and P. S. Krishnaprasad, "Quotient signal decomposition and order estimation", Institute for Systems Research Technical Report, TR-2002-47.
• D. Hristu-Varsakelis and P.R. Kumar, "Interrupt-based feedback control over a shared communication medium," Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002, p. 3223-8. Download:
• D. Hristu-Varsakelis and S. Andersson, "Directed Graphs and Motion Description Languages for Robot Navigation and Control." IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, p. 2689-94 vol.3, 2002. Download:
• B. Frankpitt and J.S. Baras, "Nonlinear Robust Control with Unknown System Models: HMM Formulation", submitted to SIAM J. Control and Optimization, 2002.
• B. Frankpitt and J.S. Baras, "Nonlinear Robust Control with Unknown HMM Models: Convergence and Learning", submitted to SIAM J. Control and Optimization, 2002.
• J.S. Baras, X. Tan and W. Xi, "Jointly Optimal Quantization, Estimation, and Control of Hidden Markov Chains", submitted to the 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
• J.S. Baras, X. Tan, P. Hovareshti, "Decentralized Control of Autonomous Vehicles", submitted to the 2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

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