Control Systems
Ruya Karagulle awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research on human-centered autonomous systems
Karagulle, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to provide human-centered approaches to autonomous systems, while ensuring their safety.Andrew Wintenberg awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research impacting the safety of smart systems
Wintenberg is developing computer algorithms and tools to improve the security of cyber and cyber-physical systems.Walking and slithering aren’t as different as you think
New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.Task Force report on grid stability concepts receives IEEE PES Prize Paper Award
The rapid growth of renewable energy led to an international task force to study its impact on the stability of worldwide power systems.New textbook provides streamlined guide for undergrads studying Signals and Systems
The textbook, authored by Prof. Stéphane Lafortune, covers the main material students need to know for continuous-time signals and systems with a focus on linear time-invariant systems and their response to different classes of input signals.Research on modeling time-variant systems earns Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award
Prof. Peter Seiler co-authored the paper that focuses on reachability analysis for a variety of systems, including aircraft control and autonomous vehicles.The NAE invites Necmiye Ozay to symposium to advance the engineering frontier
Prof. Ozay presented on her research that is relevant to cybersecurity and the future of space exploration.$7.5M MURI to make dynamic AI smarter and safer
Researchers from four U.S. institutions aim to pull the best from control theory and machine learning to build safer mobile, intelligent systems.Helping robots learn what they can and can’t do in new situations
New DOE project aims to convert a traditional engine into a hybrid OP engine with the help of control algorithms
Glen Chou receives the NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems
New research for the future of sustainable power and energy
Take a look at some of the exciting new projects that will help define the next evolution of sustainable power and energy.Stéphane Lafortune named N. Harris McClamroch Professor of EECS
Xiang Yin receives honorable mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Sijia Geng awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
Game theory for electric vehicle charging
Dmitry Berenson receives NSF CAREER Award to advance a robot’s ability to handle soft objects
Necmiye Ozay receives ONR Young Investigator Award to advance research in autonomous systems
Stéphane Lafortune receives Research Excellence Award from College of Engineering
Getting people moving – Walking exoskeletons could mobilize disabled patients
Latest two-legged walking robot arrives at Michigan
Elmer Gilbert: A Life in Control
Necmiye Ozay receives Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems paper prize
Building more stable four-legged robots
Shai Revzen part of a new five-institution MURI focused on the control of dynamic systems
CASSIE: A tougher, lighter bipedal robot with eyes
Necmiye Ozay receives NASA Early Career Faculty Award for research in cyber-physical systems
Stéphane Lafortune named Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
MARLO makes initial attempt at the Wave Field
MARLO, the free-standing two-legged robot, conquers terrain with innovative control algorithms
Students receive prizes for simulating the best landing of a rocket booster
Lights Out
Xiang Yin earns Pre-Doc Fellowship for research in cyber-physical systems
Necmiye Ozay receives CAREER award for research in cyber-physical systems
Demosthenis Teneketzis earns George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award for solution to a class of fundamental control problems
Engineering a better future for Ethiopia
Stephanie Crocker earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to bring sustainable energy to the grid
ECE welcomes new engineering robotics center
HEV fuel economy meets drivability in Outstanding Control Systems Paper
Necmiye Ozay awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award for research in cyber and physical systems
Prof. Ozay’s research interests lie at the broad interface of dynamical systems, control, optimization and formal methods with applications in system identification, verification and validation, autonomy and vision.Researchers demo hack to seize control of municipal traffic signal systems
Research in production systems engineering is recognized with Best Paper Award
Translating animal movement into better robotic design
U-M researcher involved in $10 million project to advance computer programming
Hongwei Liao, EE Systems Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Best Paper Award in Automation Research
Ford, U of M explore new ways to speed development of future hybrid vehicles