John Baillieul

About

John Baillieul has held professorial appointments in three departments at Boston University: Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering. He is a past Chairman of Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering and also past Chairman of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering. He has served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Boston University College of Engineering. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975, he joined the Mathematics Department of Georgetown University. He was the Vinton Hayes Visiting Scientist in Robotics at Harvard University during the academic year 1983-84 and a visiting scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1991. Professor Baillieul has been an active member of the IEEE Control Systems Society for many years, serving in various editorial and leadership roles including Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control for six years from 1992 through 1998, and holding positions such as Vice-President for Technical Activities, Vice-President for Publications, and President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. At the corporate IEEE level, his service has included roles such as TAB Transactions Chair, member at large of the Publications Services and Products Board, Chair of the PSPB Strategic Planning Committee, Chair of the PSPB Finance Committee, and IEEE Vice President of Publication Services and Products for 2007 and 2008. John Baillieul's…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Information Retrieval
• World Wide Web
• Mathematics
• Applied mathematics
• Data science
• Financial economics
• Economics
• Library science

Selected publications

• Encyclopedia of Systems and Control

  Springer eBooks · 2021 · 144 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Visual Navigation Using Sparse Optical Flow and Time-to-Transit

  2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2022 · 7 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Drawing inspiration from biology, we describe the way in which visual sensing with a monocular camera can provide a reliable signal for navigation of mobile robots. The work takes inspiration from the classic paper [3] which described a behavioral strategy pursued by diving sea birds based on a visual cue called time-to-contact. A closely related concept of time-to-transit, <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\tau$</tex> , is defined, a…

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• Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control

  Encyclopedia of Systems and Control · 2021 · 4 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Neuromimetic Linear Systems — Resilience and Learning

  2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) · 2022-12-06 · 3 citations

  articleSenior author

  Building on our recent work on neuromimetic control theory, new results on resilience and neuro-inspired quantization are reported. The term neuromimetic refers to the models having features that are characteristic of the neurobiology of biological motor control. As in previous work, the focus is on what we call overcomplete linear systems that are characterized by larger numbers of input and output channels than the dimensions of the state. The specific contributions of the present paper includ…

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• Koopman-based Deep Learning for Nonlinear System Estimation

  2024-12-16 · 2 citations

  articleSenior author

  Nonlinear differential equations are encountered as models of fluid flow, spiking neurons, and many other systems of interest in the real world. Common features of these systems are that their behaviors are difficult to describe exactly and invariably unmodeled dynamics present challenges in making precise predictions. In this paper, we present a novel data-driven linear estimator based on Koopman operator theory to extract meaningful finite-dimensional representations of complex non-linear syst…

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Recent grants

• Workshop: Engineering Research Communication 2020 - Data and Software Curation and the Relationship to Reproducible Research. November 5,6, 2016, Washington D.C.

  NSF · $100k · 2016–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Thomas Siegert

  University of West Florida

  144 shared

• Gianluca Setti

  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  143 shared

• Mary Ward-Callan

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  143 shared

• Dawn Melley

  131 shared

• Konstantinos Karachalios

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  129 shared

• Karen Hawkins

  Xi'an Jiaotong University

  125 shared

• Kevin Lisankie

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  113 shared

• Vaishali Damle

  113 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1990

• M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1985

• B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  University of California, Berkeley

  1983

Awards & honors

• Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)…
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM…
• Inaugural recipient of the BU Charles DeLisi Award (2008)
• Fellow, IEEE (1993)

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