Professor Francesco Bullo - Slides

Contraction Theory for Dynamical Systems (2022)

Introduction and Overview of Textbook: slides (pdf)

event: Minicourse at Scuola Superiore Meridionale
place/date: Naples, Italy and online, November 2022
video: 10h in 4 lectures, with chapters

Kuramoto Oscillators (2016-22)

Perspectives on Coupled Oscillators: Geometry, Analysis and Computation: slides (pdf) and (2x2pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Kevin D. Smith, and Robin Delabays
event: Workshop on Synchronization in Natural and Engineering Systems: Open Problems in Modeling, Analysis, and Control
place/date: online, Mar 2022
video:

Network Systems and Kuramoto Oscillators: slides (pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Kevin D. Smith, and Elizabeth Y. Huang
event: 20th Int. Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICASS)
place/date: Busan, Korea, Oct 13, 2020
video:

Network Systems and Kuramoto Oscillators: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour and Elizabeth Y. Huang
event: Northeastern University
place/date: Shenyang, China, June 10, 2018

Contraction theory, nonEuclidean norms and neural networks (2021-2022)

Perspectives on Contraction Theory and Neural Networks: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Alex Davydov, Anton Proskurnikov
event: NYU and IIT Madras
place/date: March Online, Dec 2021 and Feb 2022
video:

Perspectives on Contraction Theory and Neural Networks: From Contracting Dynamics to Contracting Algorithms: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Alex Davydov, Anton Proskurnikov
event: Tutorial session, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
event: Professor Emeritus Elias Masry Memorial Symposium, UC San Diego
place/date: Online, Dec 2021 and Feb 2022

Contraction Theory for Network Systems: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Alex Davydov
event: Louisiana State University, Department of Mathematics
place/date: Online, May 19 and 26, 2021

Stochastic Surveillance (2016-2021)

Stochastic Strategies for Robotic Surveillance: slides (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Xiaoming Duan, Mishel George, Saber Jafarpour, Rush Patel
event: Robotics and Control Webinar, Michigan State University
place/date: Online, January 28, 2021

From Robotic Routing and Balancing to Stochastic Surveillance: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Pushkarini Agharkar, Andrea Carron, Mishel George, Rush Patel
event: Systems and Control Department, IIT Bombay
place/date: Mumbay, India, January 4, 2017

Mathematical Epidemiology (2020)

Perspectives on Epidemiological Models, their History and Analysis: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

event: UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society and COVID-19 Focus Session, CDC 2020
place/date: Santa Barbara, Apr 21, 2020 and online
vide: youtube link

Social Networks and Mathematical Sociology (2019)

Parsimony in Opinion Dynamics and Structural Balance: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Wenjun Mei, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Noah Friedkin, Kevin Chan, Ge Chen, Florian Dorfler, Anton Proskurnikov
event: Workshop on Network Dynamics in the Social, Economic, and Financial Sciences, DISMA, Politecnico di Torino
place/date: Torino, Italy, Nov 5, 2019

Nonlinear Network Systems (2019)

Geometry, Analysis and Computation for Network Systems: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Saber Jafarpour, Xiaoming Duan, Kevin Smith
event: Workshop on Resilient Control of Infrastructure Networks, DISMA, Politecnico di Torino
place/date: Torino, Italy, Sep 25, 2019

Social Influence Networks (2014-2018)

Influence Systems and Collective Learning: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Peng Jia, Wenjun Mei, Ge Chen, Noah Friedkin, Kyle Lewis
event: 30th Chinese Control and Decision Conference
place/date: Shenyang, China, June 9, 2018

John, Richard and the Evolution of Influence Networks: slides (pdf) and (pdf) article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Peng Jia, Ana MirTabatabaei, Noah Friedkin
event: CDS 20th Anniversary Workshop
event: SoCal Symp on Network Economics and Game Theory
place/date: Caltech, Pasadena, 7 August and 21 November 2014

Network Systems in Science and Technology (2015-2017)

Networks Systems: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Florian Dorfler, John Simpson-Porco, Peng Jia, Noah Friedkin
event: 3rd Indian Control Conference
place/date: Guwahati, Assam, India, January 5, 2017

Networks Systems: slides (pdf) and (2x2 pdf)

coauthors: Florian Dorfler, John Simpson-Porco, Peng Jia, Noah Friedkin
event: 54th IEEE Conference in Decision and Control
place/date: Osaka, Japan, December 16, 2015

Power Networks and Coupled Oscillators (2010-2013)

Exploring Synchronization in Complex Oscillator Networks: slides (pdf)

coauthor: Florian Dörfler
event: Tutorial Session at IEEE Conf Decision and Control (CDC)
place/date: Maui, Hawaii, USA, 13 December 2012

Synchronization in Coupled Oscillators and Smart Grids: abstract (txt), slides (pdf)

coauthor: Florian Dörfler
event: SemiPlenary at Int Symp Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS)
place/date: Melbourne, Australia, 10 July 2012

Synchronization and Kron Reduction in Power Networks: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Florian Dörfler
event: Keynote at IFAC NecSys Workshop
place/date: Annecy, France, 13 September 2010

Kron Reduction of Graphs with Applications to Electrical Networks: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Florian Dörfler
event: Presentation at Los Alamos National Lab
place/date: Los Alamos, New Mexico, 8 June 2011

Cognition and Autonomy in Mixed Teams (2012)

Optimization Strategies for Cognition and Autonomy: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), bibitems (url) and (url)

coauthors: Vaibhav Srivastava
event: AFOSR-DSI Data-to-Decisions & Autonomy Workshop, RMIT University
place/date: Melbourne, Australia, 9 July 2012

Secure Control Systems (2009-2012)

Attack Detection and Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), bibitems (url Part I) and (url Part II)

coauthors: Fabio Pasqualetti and Florian Dörfler
event: Int Workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Systems and Control, Tsinghua University
place/date: Beijing, China, 18 May 2012

Cyber-Physical Systems under Attack: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), article (pdf) bibitem (url)

coauthors: Fabio Pasqualetti and Florian Dörfler
event: CDC Workshop on Control Systems Security: Challenges and Directions
place/date: Orlando, FL, 11 December 2011

Consensus Computation in Unreliable Networks: abstract (txt), poster (pdf) bibitem (url)

coauthors: Fabio Pasqualetti and Antonio Bicchi
event: IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and Chinese Control Conference
place/date: Shanghai, China, December 2009

Sequential Decision Making (2010)

Sequential Decision Aggregation: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Sandra H. Dandach and Ruggero Carli
event: MURI review meeting
place/date: Arlington, VA, 13 August 2010

Distributed Optimization (2009)

Distributed Abstract Optimization via Constraints Consensus: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Giuseppe Notarstefano
event: Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control
place/date: Stuttgart, Germany, Sep 2009

Vehicle Routing and Task Allocation (2007-2010)

Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Systems: one-day workshop at ACC 2010, (website with 8 lectures)

coauthors: E. Frazzoli, M. Pavone, K. Savla and S. L. Smith
place/date: Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 29, 2010

Dynamic Vehicle Routing: Models, Fundamental Limitations and Algorithms: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), articles (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: S. D. Bopardikar, E. Frazzoli, M. Pavone, K. Savla and S. L. Smith
place/date: Adelphi, MD, April 16, 2010

Task Allocation and Vehicle Routing: slides (pdf), articles (pdf) and (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Stephen L. Smith and Shaunak D. Bopardikar
event: Department Seminar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
place/date: Pittsburgh, PA, April 30, 2009

Monotonic Target Assignment: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Stephen L. Smith
event: Workshop on Cooperative Control, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation
place/date: Pasadena, CA, May 2008

Nonholonomic Vehicle Routing and the Dubins TSP: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Ketan Savla and Emilio Frazzoli
event: Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks, Robotics Science and Systems Conference
place/date: Atlanta, GA, June 2007

Robotic Networks (2007-2011)

Geometry, Optimization and Control in Robot Coordination: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), bibitem (url)

event: Plenary at 11th SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
place/date: Baltimore, Maryland, July 17, 2011

Geometry, Optimization and Control in Robot Coordination: abstract (txt), slides (pdf), book (url), bibitem (url)

event: Plenary at 3rd IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control
place/date: Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 10, 2009

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: slides (pdf), book (url)

coauthors: Jorge Cortes and Sonia Martinez
event: 2hour lecture at 3rd WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems (earlier version presented as MiniTutorial at 2009 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems)
place/date: Siena, Italy, 7 Jul 2009

Territory Partitioning for Minimalist Gossiping Robots: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Paolo Frasca and Ruggero Carli
event: Washington University (earlier version presented at NSF Workshop on Distributed Communication, Sensing, and Control, Nov 2008)
place/date: Seattle, WA, Apr 2009

Synchronization of N Beads on a Ring: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Sara Susca and Sonia Martinez
event: Topology and Minimalism, RSS Workshop
place/date: Zurich, Switzerland, Jun 2008

Visibility-based Multi-Agent Deployment in Orthogonal Environments: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthors: Anurag Ganguli and Jorge Cortes
event: American Control Conference
place/date: New York, Jul 2007

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems (2003-2004)

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems: slides (pdf), book (url), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Andrew Lewis
event: Workshop on Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control
place/date: Bahamas, Dec 2004

Modeling and Trajectory Design for Mechanical Control Systems: slides (pdf), book (url), bibitem (url)

event: Plenary at 2nd IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNLC’03)
place/date: Seville, Spain, April 2003

Miscellaneous slides (2002-2006)

Coordination in Multi-Agent Networks: slides (pdf), book (url), bibitem (url)

event: Plenary at Int. Conf. on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
place/date: Santa Barbara, Mar 2006

Coordination in Multi-Agent Networks and Visually-Guided Agent Networks: slides (pdf)

event: 2hour lecture at Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
place/date: Heeze, The Netherlands, Mar 2006

Motion Coordination in Multi-Agent Networks: slides (pdf)

event: Workshop on Network Embedded Sensing and Control
place/date: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, Oct 2005

Nonsmooth Coordination Algorithms: slides (pdf), article (pdf), bibitem (url)

coauthor: Jorge Cortes
event: Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control
place/date: Block Island, RI, Jun 2003

Geometric Control of Lagrangian Systems: slides (pdf)

event: DISC Summer School on Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems
place/date: Zeist, Netherlands, Jul 2002