Piyush Grover

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Piyush Grover

Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
NH 304C
Lincoln, NE 68588-0526
Phone
402-472-1080 On-campus 2-1080
Email
piyush.grover@unl.edu
Website

I lead the Dynamical Systems Lab (DSL) in the MME department at UNL. My research involves developing new 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. My current focus is on active fluids, mean-field control, mean-field games and nonlinear waves in mechanical metamaterials.

Education

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Tech (2010)
  • B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India (2005)

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

Dynamical Systems theory, control and optimization:

  • Geometric and topological methods in dynamical systems
  • Operator theoretic methods (Perron-Frobenius/Koopman) for analysis and control
  • Continuum approach to multi-agent system control and decision making (Mean-field control and mean-field games, Optimal Transport)
     

Applications to:

  • Large-scale multi-agent systems (swarm robotics, traffic)
  • Microfluidics and active fluids (chaotic mixing, topological chaos, flow control)
  • Metamaterial design (Energy transfers in nonlinear media)
  • Atmospheric Flows (Reduced-order modeling , LiDAR data-assimilation)
  • Astrodynamics (Low-energy space mission design)
  • Buoyancy driven flow in built environment (control of HVAC)