Wei Xiao got an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
For the paper “Feasibility-Guided Learning for Constrained Optimal Control Problems”, coauthored with Calin A. Belta and Christos G. Cassandras
BU Robotics Lab featured on Futurity.org and Futurism.com
Our work in training two robots, Jaco and Baxter, to cook and serve a hot dog using reinforcement learning was featured in Futurity and Futurism.
BU Robotics Lab in ENG News 2019/12/19
The BU Robotics Lab was featured in the College of Engineering News on Dec. 19th 2019. The full article is available at https://www.bu.edu/eng/2019/12/19/robot-reinforcement/
Calin is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society
The appointment for the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society starts January 1, 2019 and ends December 31, 2021. Details about the program can be found here: http://www.ieeecss.org/member-activities/distinguished-lecturers-program
Calin teaches an EECI course in Paris, Saclay, Jan 14-18, 2018
The course is titled “Formal Methods in Control Design – from Discrete Synthesis to Continuous Controllers” and is co-taught with Antoine Girard. It is offered as part of the INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL ON CONTROL (IGSC) PROGRAM in the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI). To register, follow this link: http://eeciinstitute.web-events.net/registration/ The schedule is available here: http://eeciinstitute.web-events.net/timetables/ Summary of […]
Morteza is moving on to a tenure-track faculty position
Morteza Lahijanian, who got his PhD under the supervision of Calin Belta and Sean Andersson, will start a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Fall of 2018.
Calin is awarded the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS) Outstanding Paper Award
For the paper Samuel Coogan, Ebru Aydin Gol, Murat Arcak, and Calin Belta, Traffic Network Control from Temporal Logic Specifications, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 162 – 171, June 2016 http://www.ieeecss.org/awards/transactions-control-network-systems-outstanding-paper-award
Calin is co-organizing the first NSF S&AS PI meeting
Inaugural Smart and Autonomous Systems PI Meeting April 5–6, 2018 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia. http://robotics.gatech.edu/SASPI/
Junmin was awarded the Best Posters Prize at Harvard-Pfizer Conference
Junmin Wang was awarded the Best Posters Prize for his poster “Modeling Genetic Circuit Behavior in Transiently Transfected Mammalian Cells” at Harvard-Pfizer Conference Mathematical Modeling and Healthcare Applications (co-sponsored by ISoP) in November, 2017.
New book on formal methods for dynamical systems
Our book Calin Belta, Boyan Yordanov, and Ebru Aydin Gol, Formal Methods for Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, Springer, 2017 (ISBN: 978-3-319-50762-0) was published and is available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-50763-7