DEJAN Milutinović's research

 
             
             
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RESEARCH TOPICS
 
Stochastic control: nonlinear and hybrid system  control, Hamiltonian approach, open-loop control of stochastic dynamical systems, use of stochastic processes for computing control.
Links: A Step Towards An Ultimate Processor: Utilizing Stochastic Processes for Computing Robot Control (pdf), Stochasticity in Robotics and Biological Systems, Workshop at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK (link)
 
Multi-robot systems: control of large-size robot populations, swarm robotics and use of stochastic processes for self-organized behavior, control of unmanned vehicles.
Links: 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland (link)
 
Redundant systems: redundant manipulators, human-robot interaction, robot-aided physical therapy, information theoretic approach to robot design and control
Links: Workshop on Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems (link), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, CA (link); see the post-conference movie (link)
 
Air-traffic optimization: airport taxi scheduling, probabilistic collision avoidance
Links: Next Generation of Air Transportation System (NextGen) (link),
UCSC NASA Ames Research Center (link)
 
 
PEOPLE
 
Graduate students (alphabetical order):
Ross Anderson, AMS graduate student, NSF Graduate Student Fellow (link)
William Jeremy Coupe, AMS graduate student
Georgi Dinolov, AMS graduate student
Zhi Li, CE graduate student co-supervised with Jacob Rosen
 
Alumni:
Aaron Palmer, junior researcher in 2010, now an NSF Graduate Student Fellow, Cornell University (link)

Collaborators (alphabetical order):
Andrew Moore, Oceanography Department, UCSC (link)
Jacon Rosen, Bionics Lab., Computer Engineering Department, UCSC (link)