Francesco Bullo Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation College of Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara

Research

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks, by F. Bullo and J. Cortés and S. Martínez, Series in Applied Mathematics, Princeton, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-14195-4.

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems, by F. Bullo and A. D. Lewis, Texts in Applied Mathematics, Springer, 2004, ISBN 0-387-22195-6.

Publications: updated list of papers and technical reports, including:

• Vaibhav Srivastava and Fabio Pasqualetti: Stochastic surveillance strategies for spatial quickest detection
• Fabio Pasqualetti and Florian Dörfler: Attack detection and identification in cyber-physical systems -- Part I: Models and fundamental limitations , and Part II: Centralized and distributed monitor design
• Sandra H. Dandach and Ruggero Carli: Accuracy and decision time for sequential decision aggregation
• E. Frazzoli, M. Pavone, K. Savla, and S. L. Smith: Dynamic vehicle routing for robotic systems
• Florian Dörfler: Synchronization and transient stability in power networks and non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators
• Ruggero Carli and Paolo Frasca: Gossip coverage control for robotic networks

• Peng Jia

• Fabio Pasqualetti "CyberPhysical security and minimalist robotics" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, fabiopass at gmail.com)
• Vaibhav Srivastava "Optimization strategies in mixed human/robotics teams" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, srivastava.vaibhav at gmail.com)
• Anahita Mirtabatabaei "Opinion dynamics in social networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, anaheata at gmail.com)
• Florian Dörfler "Synchronization and security in power networks" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, dorfler at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Rushabh Patel (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, patelrush at gmail.com)
• John W. Simpson-Porco "Microgrids and droop-controlled inverters" (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, johnwsimpsonporco at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Jeffrey R. Peters (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, jrpeters23 at gmail.com)
• Pushkarini Agharkar (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, agharkar at engineering.ucsb.edu)
• Winston Mei (Ph.D. student, ME UCSB, meiwenjunbd at gmail.com)

Bio
Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received the Laurea degree "summa cum laude" in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. From 1998 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His main research interest is multi-agent networks with application to robotic coordination, distributed computing and power networks. Other interests include vehicle routing, geometric control, and motion planning problems. He is the coauthor, with Andrew D. Lewis, of the book "Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems" (Springer, 2004, 0-387-22195-6) and, with Jorge Cortés and Sonia Martínez, of the book "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton, 2009, 978-0-691-14195-4). He is an IEEE Fellow. His students' papers were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2002, 2005, 2007), and the American Control Conference (2005, 2006, 2010). He is a recipient of the 2003 ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2008 IEEE CSM Outstanding Paper Award and the 2010 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals, books, and refereed conferences. He has served or is serving on the Editorial Boards of "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control," "ESAIM: Control, Optimization, and the Calculus of Variations," "SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization," and "Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems".

Our articles on google scholar , my CV , and our group pictures on flickr
bullo at engineering dot ucsb dot edu