projects

Synopsis

My research is at the intersection of control theory, networks, aerospace systems, robotics, optimization, and data science, with a multi-disciplinary twist to such areas as aerospace autonomy and dynamic networks; see /writings/

Current Projects

NSF: Autonomy of Origami-inspired Transformable Systems in Space Operations

NSF: Data-guided Control: Fundamental Limits in Presence of Nonlinearities, Streaming Data, and Networks

NASA: 6DOF guidance for planetary pinpoint landing

Blue Origin: Computational guidance for rendezvous and docking

AFOSR: Motion planning via lifting and hypercomplex geometry

Boeing: Robust trajectory planning in presence of obstacles and uncertain weather conditions

NSF: Global brain and variability

JPL/NASA: Robust vision-based guidance and control

Past Projects

ARO MURI: Predicting and controlling systems of interdependent networks (with Raissa D’Souza)

ONR: Online Distributed Optimization (with Maryam Fazel)

Boeing: Advanced Control Methods for Aircraft Flight Systems (with Kristi Morgansen)

NASA: 6DOF Constrained Motion Planning Algorithms with Applications to Autonomous Pin-point Landing

DARPA: Breaking the Neuro-code NSF: Data-guided decision-making for infrastructure networks

DARPA: Data-guided controllability: learning from the human genome (with Indika Rajapakse, Anthony Bloch, Stephen Smale)

Boeing: Adaptive energy management for more electric aircraft

AFOSR: A Network-centric Formalism for Disturbance Rejection Design and Human-swarm Interaction

NSF: Semi-autonomous networks

AFOSR: Networked systems security: system-theoretic perspective

JPL/NASA: Formation observers and estimators

NSF: Robustness of networked systems via graph-theoretic methods

Boeing: Analysis and design of co-simulation frameworks

Boeing: Multiple UAV Deconfliction

NSF CAREER: Distributed Space Systems

JPL/NASA: Nonconvex Motion Planning

JPL/NASA: Switching Control Laws for Spacecraft formations

Boeing: UAV Formations with Switching Information-exchange topologies

ONR: Hybrid Control for Supercavitating flight (ONR)

JPL/NASA: Distributed estimation

Murdock Foundation: Virtual reality for understanding complex engineering phenomena