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Paulo Tabuada
Assistant Professor
Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California at Los Angeles
also affiliated with:
UCLA Center for Systems, Dynamics and Control
News:
08/01/08: CyPhyLab is awarded a small grant for exploratory research on
event-triggered control over sensor/actuator wireless networks (NSF:0841216).
07/17/08: HSCC'09 webpage goes live.
07/14/08: CyPhyLab is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher.
06/23/08: NSF funds team formed by UCLA, UCSD, and USC to study
physically coupled software (NSF:0820061).
05/19/08: Paper Approximate Reduction of Dynamic Systems appears in
Systems and Control Letters.
04/28/08: Prof. Rupak Majumdar and Prof. Paulo Tabuada co-chair
HSCC 2009.
04/16/08: Paper Controller Synthesis for Bisimulation Equivalence
appears in Systems and Control Letters.
02/25/08: Paper On the benefits of relaxing the periodicity assumption
for control tasks accepted for publication in RTAS, work in progress track.
My main research interests cover a range of topics which could be described as a modern systems theory. In particular, I'm interested in modeling, analysis and control of real-time, embedded, networked and distributed systems. Other research interests include geometrical nonlinear control and mathematical systems theory.
Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for incrementally stable switched systems
Antoine Girard, Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
Submitted for publication.
arXiv:0807.5022
To sample or not to sample: Self-triggered control for nonlinear systems
Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
Submitted for publication.
arXiv:0806.0709
Symbolic models for nonlinear control systems: Alternating approximate bisimulations
Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
Submitted for publication.
arXiv:0707.4205
Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for nonlinear control systems
Giordano Pola, Antoine Girard and Paulo Tabuada
Accepted for publication in Automatica.
arXiv:0706.0246
Projects:
SGER: Event-triggered control over sensor/actuator wireless networks (NSF:0841216)
Design and run-time techniques for physically coupled software (NSF:0820061)
Control and real-time scheduling co-design (NSF:0712502)
Automated synthesis of embedded control software (NSF CAREER:0717188)
Categorical methods in systems theory
Teaching:
EE239AS-2, Geometric Nonlinear Control, Spring 2009
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2009
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Fall 2008
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Spring 2008
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Winter 2008
EE102, Systems and Signals, Fall 2007
EE142, Linear Systems: State-Space, Winter 2007
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Fall 2006
EE87017 Analysis and Synthesis of Discrete-Event Systems, Spring 2006 at Notre Dame
EE20224 Introduction to Electrical Networks, Fall 2005 at Notre Dame
EE598J Analysis and Synthesis of Hybrid Systems, Spring 2005 at Notre Dame
EE224 Introduction to Electrical Networks, Fall 2004 at Notre Dame
EE580 Nonlinear Control Systems, Spring 2004 at Notre Dame
EE550 Linear Systems, Fall 2003 at Notre Dame
MEAM690 Special Topics in Nonlinear Control, Spring 2003 at UPenn
Group:
Adolfo Anta, Ph.D. Student (2006-)
Manuel Mazo Jr., Ph.D. Student (2007-)
Zeinab Mousavi, Ph.D. Student (2007-)
Anna Davitian, M.Sc. Student (2007-) co-advised with Prof. Kaiser.
Wenhui Zhang visiting undergraduate student from Fudan University, China (Summer 2008).
Megan Ross, High School Student (Summer of 2008).
Former group members:
Postdoctoral researchers
Giordano Pola (2006-2007). Now a postdoctoral researcher at Università dell’Aquila.
Ph.D. students
M.Sc. students
Andre Dias (2007). Now a Ph.D. student in the MIT-Portugal program.
Undergraduate students
Catvu Bui (Winter 2008 and Spring 2008) now at DiCon Fiberoptics.
Yuan Fu (Winter 2008 and Spring 2008).
John Larson (Winter 2008 and Spring 2008).
Shilloam Won (Winter 2008 and Spring 2008).
Michael Dokhanchy (Fall 2007).
Conferences:
Hybrid Sytems: Computation and Control 2009 (General co-Chair)
47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008 (Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board)
American Control Conference 2008 (Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board)
7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Program Committee)
8th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control Controlo 2008 (Program Committee)
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2008 (Program Committee)
Travel:
June 11-13: 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington.
May 22-23: Symposium on Information and Control Hierarchies, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany.
May 3-4: Forum PAPS 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.
May 2: MIT, Boston, Massachusetts.
April 22-24: Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, St. Louis, Missouri.
March 17-26: National University of Singapore, Singapore.
December 12-14: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana.
November 16 : University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contact:
Paulo Tabuada
UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept.
66-147F Engineering IV Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
Tel: 310-794-4266
Fax: 310-206-4685
e-mail: tabuada(at)ee.ucla.edu