IDeA Labs Members Participate in the Conference on Decision and Control

December 15, 2014

IDeA Labs members Vasu Chetty, Nathan Woodbury, and David Grimsman attended the Conference on Decision and Control 2014 held in Los Angeles. This international conference is the flagship gathering for the IEEE Control Systems Society, and includes top experts from around the world. This year’s Bode Lecture speaker was Bruce Francis, a well-decorated emeritus professor from the University of Toronto, who spoke about distributed control among groups of robots. The other plenary lectures were from Claire Tomlin of UC Berkeley and Miroslav Krstic of UC San Diego.

Vasu Chetty was among the many bright students to present their work at the conference. He presented a paper on which he collaborated with Nathan Woodbury, Elham Vaziripour, and Sean Warnick: Vulnerability Analysis for Distributed and Coordinated Destabilization Attacks during a session organized by the Department of Homeland Security. The paper articulates system destabilization attacks accomplished by either single link or multiple link perturbations, along with a vulnerability analysis method for such attacks. Additionally, the paper describes a separability result for feedback systems against these attacks.

Vasu, David, and Nathan were able to attend sessions describing the latest research occurring on a variety of topics: networks, game theory, distributed control, control theory, and optimization. More importantly, however, they were able interact and network with professors, students, and professionals who share similar research interests, including those from Oxford, MIT, Caltech, and University of North Florida.