Projects and Workgroups

This page includes a few projects and workgroups active in the the field of Networked Control Systems. If you wish to have your project / group added to this page, please fill out this form.

Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control (ADAC) Laboratory with: North Carolina State University

Category: Research Lab
Mission: The Advanced Diagnosis, Automation, and Control Laboratory (ADAC Lab) has six hundred and eighty square feet and is located in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at North Carolina State University (NCSU)...
E-mail: adac@ncsu.edu
Weblink: http://www.adac.ncsu.edu/

Alleyne Research Group with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Category: Research Group
Mission: Application of automation and control theory,We focus on a holistic approach to the control process including: modeling, analysis, simulation, and experiments...
E-mail: alleyne@uiuc.edu
Weblink: http://mr-roboto.me.uiuc.edu/

Networked Control Systems Laboratory with: University of Washington (Seattle)

Category: Research Lab
Mission: To investigate research issues in networked control systems with applications to robotics and the environment.
E-mail: bushnell@ee.washington.edu
Weblink: http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/ncs/index.html 

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) with: University of California, Los Angeles

Category: Research Group
Mission: CENS, a NSF Science & Technology Center, is developing Embedded Networked Sensing Systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Like the Internet, these large-scale, distributed, systems, composed of smart sensors and actuators embedded in the physical world, will eventually infuse the entire world, but at a physical level instead of virtual. (more...)
Weblink: http://www.cens.ucla.edu/  

Center for Networked Communicating Control Systems (CNCS) with: University of Maryland at College Park

Category: Research Lab
Mission: The Center for Communicating Networked Control Systems is a multi-university, multidisciplinary center which has been established with the goal of providing the mathematical foundations needed to support the convergence and integration of control and communications technologies...
E-mail: krishna@isr.umd.edu
Weblink: http://www.isr.umd.edu/CNCS/

Closed Loop Over a Wireless Network (CLOWN) with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Category: Research Project
Mission: Application of automation and control theory,We focus on a holistic approach to the control process including: modeling, analysis, simulation, and experiments...
E-mail: nploplys@uiuc.edu
Weblink: http://mr-roboto.me.uiuc.edu/clown/

Computational Intelligence Laboratory with: Baylor University

Category: Research Lab
E-mail: Robert_Marks@baylor.edu
Weblink: http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/faculty/marks/index/index.htm

Computational Intelligence Laboratory with: University of Washington

Category: Research Lab
E-mail: elsharkawi@ee.washington.edu
Weblink: http://cialab.ee.washington.edu

Cooperative Networked Control of Dynamical Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Systems with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Category: Research Project
Mission:  Despite the emergence of very successful control design techniques for single vehicle systems, and the almost ubiquitous existence of distributed software systems, systematic methodologies for the reliable construction of cooperative networked multi-vehicle systems are effectively nonexistent...
E-mail: dullerud@uiuc.edu
Weblink: http://legend.me.uiuc.edu/dullerud/Master/Projects/Project_0.html

Coordination and Control of Networks of Interacting Automata with: Stanford University

Category: Research Project
Mission: Development of techniques for control and analysis of distributed systems, with a focus on methods which make use of local information to perform teaming, control, and verification on-line...
E-mail: lall@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://element.stanford.edu/~lall/projects/mica/

Distributed Embeddable Systems for Control Applications (DISCO) with: Rutgers University

Category: Research Project
Mission:  To investigate techniques and to develop solutions to improve flexibility and adaptability in distributed embedded control systems in order to reduce operation and maintenance costs while maximising the utilisation of system resources...
E-mail:
Weblink: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/

Distributed network-based control with network QoS constraints  with: North Carolina State University

Category: Research Project
Mission:  To apply the network QoS (Quality-of-Service) concept including as Integrated Service (Int-Serv) and Differentiated Service (Diff-Serv) to effectively support end-to-end networked control applications...
E-mail: chow@eos.ncsu.edu
Weblink: http://www.adac.ncsu.edu/Project_folder/Projects_current/NBC_GSM_Tipsuwan_Jae/NBC_GSM_Tipsuwan_Jae.htm

Hierarchial and Reconfigurable Schemes for Distributed Control over Heterogeneous Networks with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Category: Research Project
Mission: This research project deals with issues arising in controlling geographically distributed complex real-time systems over a heterogeneous communication network. It is aimed at developing the foundations of network-based control, from theory to applications...
E-mail: tbasar@black.csl.uiuc.edu
Weblink: http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~chadjic/itr/

Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group with: Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Category: Research Group
Mission: Research at Queen's is concerned with both principles and practical applications, the aim being to link theoretical and technological advances ...
E-mail: g.irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk 
Weblink: http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/isac/

Interdisciplinary Studies of Intelligent Systems with: University of Notre Dame

Category: Research Group
Mission: The ISIS Group was created in 1992. The group consists of faculty and students from Engineering and Science. Currently, the group conducts research in a variety of areas in intelligent control...
E-mail: isis@nd.edu
Weblink: http://www.nd.edu/~isis/

LUCAS with: Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN

Category: Research Lab
Mission: The research of LUCAS covers three thematic areas: Software Engineering Environment - languages and tools for software development, Methods in Software Engineering - methods and processes for software development, Real-Time Systems Software - software in systems with hard real-time requirements.
E-mail: lucas-info@cs.lth.se
Weblink: http://www.lucas.lth.se/

NetBots  with: Case Western Reserve University

Category: Research Group
Mission: Our vision is to enable human beings to interact with, modify, and control a remote physical environment by supervising action units through Internet connectivity....
E-mail: vincenzo.liberatore@case.edu
Weblink: http://vorlon.case.edu/~vxl11/NetBots/

Network Control Systems Group with: University of Maryland at College Park

Category: Research Group
Mission: The mission of the Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory (ICE Lab) is to both teach and advance the state of the art in integrating computers into mechanical devices...
E-mail:  gwalsh@eng.umd.edu
Weblink: http://www.enme.umd.edu/ice_lab/ncs/ncs.html

Network Control Systems Laboratory  with: National Taiwan University

Category: Research Lab
Mission: Our research interests are in the areas of Networked Control Systems, Multi-Agent Communication & Control, and Statistical Process Quality Control...
E-mail:  ncslab@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Weblink: http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~ncslab/

Real-Time Research Repository  by: IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems 

Category: Research Repository
Mission: The Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE TC-RTS) addresses systems issues in real-time systems. Real-time systems are systems in which its temporal properties are essential for reliability and correctness; the example applications include embedded systems, control systems, monitoring systems, and multimedia systems. The IEEE TC-RTS promotes and facilitates the exchange of research results and development in the areas of applications, databases, distributed and parallel systems, formal methods and timing analysis, networks, operating systems and middleware, programming languages, scheduling and resource management, security, and verification and validation of real-time systems.
E-mail: ieee-tcrts@cs.bu.edu 
Weblink: http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/Home.html