23-03-2017, 12:57 PM
The Advanced Control Theory and Applications Laboratory is involved in research on stability and control of nonlinear dynamical systems and in particular large-scale interconnected systems control, cooperative control for multi-agent systems, hierarchical nonlinear switching control, hybrid control and Impulsive for nonlinear systems, thermodynamics of systems, thermodynamic modeling of mechanical and aerospace systems and nonlinear analysis and control of biological and physiological systems. The laboratory is equipped with several experimental platforms for the verification of our theoretical findings. Recent research on multi-vehicle coordination supported by the Office of Naval Research and NAVSEA allowed exploring several approaches to cooperative control design, including finite-time coordination and the design of hybrid control architectures. In addition, the laboratory conducts multidisciplinary research in emerging areas such as the analysis and control of biological systems, the theoretical characterization of chemical reaction networks systems and the thermodynamics of large-scale systems.
