(Paul) Peng Yang

I am a third year graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern Univerity. I got my B.S. degree from Peking University in China before attending graduate school. Right now I am doing Ph.D study with Prof. Kevin Lynch from ME department and Prof. Randy Freeman from EE department. My research interest lies in nonlinear/optimal control, Bayesian estimation and distributed algorithms, with applications to multi-agent coordination problems. 

Phone: (847) 467-1070
Office: B230 Tech Institute

Research Projects:

1. Multi-agent Shape Control: 
2. Distributed Estimation: ME 495 Project

Publications:

• K. M. Lynch, I. B. Schwartz, P. Yang, and R. A. Freeman. Decentralized environmental modeling by mobile sensor networks. To appear,  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2008. [pdf]

• P. Yang, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch. Multi-agent coordination by decentralized estimation and control. To appear, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008. [pdf]

• P. Yang, R. A. Freeman, G. J. Gordon, K. M. Lynch, S. S. Srinivasa and R. Sukthankar,  "Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity in mobile sensor networks," in Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, June 2008. [pdf][talk]

• P. Yang, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch. Distributed Cooperative Active Sensing Using Consensus Filters. To appear, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. [pdf][talk]

• P. Yang, R. A. Freeman, and K. M. Lynch. A General Stability Condition for Multi-Agent Coordination by Coupled Estimation and Control. in Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference. [pdf]

• P. Yang, K.M. Lynch, and R.A. Freeman, "Optimal information propagation in sensor networks," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, Florida, May 2006. [pdf] [talk]

• R.A. Freeman, P. Yang, and K.M. Lynch, "Distributed estimation and control of swarm formation statistics," in Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2006. [pdf] [talk]  

• R. A. Freeman, P. Yang, and K. M. Lynch. Stability and convergence properties of dynamic average consensus estimators. To appear, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006. [pdf][talk]

List of Researchers:

Decentralized Estimation:

• Lin Xiao, Microsoft Reserach
• Reza Olfati-Saber, Dartmouth 
• John N. Tsitsiklis, MIT
• Hugh Durrant-Whyte,  University of Sydney
• Zhipu Jin, Caltech
• Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford 
• Stephen Morse,  Yale
• Wei Ren, Utah State 

Optimal Control/Optimization:

• Clarie Tomlin,  Stanford
• William Dunbar,  UC San Cruz
• Stephen Boyd, Stanford

Multi agent Coordination:

• Richard Murray, Caltech
• George Pappas,  Penn
• Frencesco Bullo, UC at San Barbara 
• Naomi Leonard,  Princeton
• Ali Jadbabie, Penn
• Vatech
• John Baillieul, Boston University
• Stergios Roumeliotis ,Univ of Minnesota
• Sonia Martinez, UC San Diego
• Jorge Cortes, UC San Cruz

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