Dynamical Systems Lab
Areas of ResearchDynamical Systems theory, control and optimization:
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Dynamical Systems Lab (DSL), led by Prof. Piyush Grover in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focusses on developing analysis, control and optimization methods for nonlinear dynamical systems, and their application to several areas including large-scale multi-agent robotics, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics/nonlinear vibration and astrodynamics. Dynamical systems and control theory provides a strong foundation for tackling problems in (solid/fluid/bio) mechanics, and robotics, among other areas.
Updates:
- Oct 2020: Our paper Optimal Control of Active Nematics is highlighted in Physical Review Letters as Editor's Suggestion.
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Sept 2020: Paper with colleagues from Georgia Tech, accepted at Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2020) 'Stabilizing Optimal Density Control of Nonlinear Agents with Multiplicative Noise'. Preprint coming soon.
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August 2020: Caleb Wagner will join the group as a postdoctoral researcher, after finishing his Ph.D. in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics at Brandeis University.
- July 2020: Check out our new preprint "Optimal Control of Active Nematics" with Mike Norton and collaborators. Accepted at Physical Review Letters (9/18)
- May 2020: New undergraduate online course "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos' will be offered during 8 week summer session (MECH 98-401, May 18-July 10). Sign up now to learn about this exciting topic.
- April 2020: Our paper 'Optimization-based incentivization and control scheme for autonomous traffic' with Uros Kalabic (MERL) and Shuchin Aeron (Tufts) on PDE based optimal control of mixed manual-autonomous traffic accepted to IEEE Intelligent Vehicles 2020. Preprint here
- Feb 2020: Joint work with Mike Norton on optimal control of active nematics will be presented by Mike at the APS March Meeting.
- Jan 2020: Paper accepted at American Control Conference (ACC 2020) with colleagues from MERL and Univ. Minnesota on robust estimation of airflow in buildings. Preprint forthcoming.
- Nov 2019: Presented work on mean-field games at UNL Math Department's Continuum Mechanics Seminar
- Oct 2019: New poster on LiDAR based data assimilimation.
- Oct 2019: A new postdoctoral position is available. See ad here.
- Sept 2019: New paper with colleagues from MERL and Univ. Cambridge on optimal control of airflow in buildings.
- August 2019: DSL is established. We are looking for undergraduate and graduate students to join the lab.
- July 2019: Workshop Particulate and Granular Networks, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
- June 2019:Workshop Crowds: Models and Control workshop, CIRM, Marseille, France
- May 2019: Conference SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah. Presented a talk on MFG based flocking models and their stability analysis.