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There is a growing realization among educators andemployers that students of automatic control should be encouraged tothink of the subject in broader terms. The systems approach shouldembrace communication requirements, ...

We study the dynamics and explore thecontrollability of a family of sphere-plate mechanical systems. Theseare nonholonomic systems with a five-dimensional configuration spaceand three independent velocities. They consist ...

We discuss a prototypeproblem involving terrain exploration and learning by formations ofautonomous vehicles. We investigate an algorithm forcoordinating multiple robots whose task is to find the shortest pathbetween a ...

Control and communication issues aretraditionally "decoupled" in discussions of decision and controlproblems, as this simplifies the analysis and generally works well forclassical models. This fundamental assumption deserves ...

This work is directed towards exploring interactions ofcommunication and control in systems with communication constraints.Examples of such systems include groups of autonomousvehicles, MEMS arrays and systems whose sensors ...

The limitations of rigid fingertips in the precise andalgorithmic study of manipulation have been discussed in many works,some dating back more than a decade. Despite that fact, much of thework in dexterous manipulation ...