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Rui Chen Prospectus Defense
Two days ago, Rui Chen defended his Thesis proposal on Control and Optimization Methods for problems in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He began introducing ITS and it impacts on society by motivating the audience with the fact that the cost of commuter delays has risen by 260% over the past... More
Congratulations to Dr. Nan Zhou on his successful Doctoral Thesis Defense.
During his time at BU and at CODES Lab, Dr. Zhou’s research focused on robotic motion planning, control, and optimization with applications ranging from a single robotic controller to large-scale interconnected autonomous vehicles. In particular, he used Dynamic Programming to uncover parametric policies for the Persistent Monitoring problem and Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis to learn... More
Arian Houshmand takes first place at CISE Graduate Student Workshop
For the second year in a row, Arian Houshmand takes first place as CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 6.0) Best Presenter. The CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW) is a day-long, annual event that encourages interdisciplinary sharing among CISE students and CISE faculty affiliates across diverse application areas. CGSW gives participants... More
Congrats to Xinmiao’s PhD thesis defense
We congratulate Dr. Xinmiao Sun on her successful thesis defense. All the best to her future endeavor.
1 plenary talk and 3 papers will be presented at the IFAC World Congress 2017
Prof. Cassandras is going to present a plenary talk "Autonomous Mobility in Smart Cities" at the 20th IFAC World Congress. Three papers will be presented as well. Zhou, Cassandras, Yu, Andersson, "Optimal Event-Driven Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring with Graph-Limited Mobility" Wardi, Cassandras, Cao, "Perturbation Analysis: A Framework for Data-Driven Control and Optimization of Discrete Event and... More
2 papers accepted at the American Control Conference 2017
Two papers have been accepted by the American Control Conference at Seattle in May 2017. Zhang Yue, Cassandras Christos G., Malikopoulos Andreas A., "Optimal Control of Connected Automated Vehicles at Urban Traffic Intersections: A Feasibility Enforcement Analysis" Yu Xi, Andersson Sean B., Zhou Nan, Cassandras Christos G., "Optimal Dwell Times for Persistent Monitoring of a Finite Set... More
PhD thesis defense
Congratulations to Sepideh Pourazarm on her successful PhD thesis defense and graduation.
An Internet of Cars
CODES Lab participates in developing efficient, smart vehicle technology under the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy NEXTCAR program. Congratulations to Professor Christos G. Cassandras and all CODES labmates. In the news : /systems/2016/11/15/an-internet-of-cars/
4 papers accepted at the 55th Conf. on Decision and Control
4 papers have been accepted at the 55th Conference on Decision and Control: Zhang Jing, Pourazarm Sepideh, Cassandras Ghristos G., Paschalidis Ioannis Ch., "Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks by Estimating User Cost Functions from Actual Traffic Data (I)" Zhang Yicheng, Su Rong, Li Qing, Cassandras Christos G., Xie Lihua, "Distributed Flight Routing and Scheduling in Air Traffic... More
Welcome to our sessions at ACC 2016
One paper and one poster of our lab have been accepted to ACC2016. Welcome to the related sessions on Friday (July 8th). 10:00 - 10:20 oral presentation Optimal Control and Coordination of Connected and Automated Vehicles at Urban Traffic Intersections (I) 10:00-noon student poster session Optimal Event-Driven Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring with Applications in Smart Cities