Shankar Sastry

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Keywords: controls
Research Areas: millirobotics for minimally-invasive surgery, computer vision, Berkeley AeroRobots, software enabled control, air traffic management systems, center for hybrid and embedded software and systems, adaptation and learning in biological and artificial systems, nonholonomic systems, dynamics and control, interactive visualization, non-invasive surgery, and rapid prototyping
Website: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sastry/

Research Description:

My areas of research are embedded and autonomous software, computer vision, and computation in novel substrates such as DNA, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid systems, embedded systems, sensor networks and biological motor control. Please visit the following websites for more information regarding my research interest.

CITRIS – The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental and healthcare problems.

CHESS – The Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems research focus is on developing model-based and tool-supported design methodologies for real-time fault tolerant software on heterogeneous distributed platforms.

TRUST – The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology will be devoted to the development of a new science and technology that will radically transform the ability of organizations (software vendors, operators, local and federal agencies) to design, build, and operate trustworthy information systems for our critical infrastructure.

Robotics Lab – The Robotics & Intelligent Machines Research Lab host a variety of research projects ranging from disciplines more traditionally categorized under robotics, such as the design of microrobots and the control and coordination of unmanned autonomous vehicles, to more cross disciplinary topics, such as active vison and sensor networks.

Selected Publications:

J. Zhang, J. Vala, S. Sastry, and K. B. Whaley. Geometric theory of nonlocal two-qubit operations. Phys. Rev. A 67, 042313, 2003. http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v67/e042313

J. Lygeros, K. Johansson, S. Simic, J. Zhang and S. Sastry. Dynamical Properites of Hybrid Automata. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 48. No. 1, pp. 2-17, 2003.

J. Lygeros, C. Tomlin, S. Sastry. Controllers for Reachability Specifications for Hybrid Systems. AUTOMATICA, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 349-370, March 1999.

K. H. Johansson, M. Egerstedt, J. Lygeros, S. Sastry. On the Regularization of Zeno Hybrid Automata. Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 38, No. 3: 141-150, 26 October 1999.

C. J. Tomlin and S. S. Sastry. Switching Through Singularities. Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 35. No. 3: 145-54, October 1998.

Y. Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry. A Mathematical Introduction to Computational Vision, Springer Verlag. Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics Series, 2003

R. Vidal, Y. Ma, and S. Sastry. Generalized Principal Component Analysis. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 621-628, June 2003.

Y. Ma, K. Huang, R. Vidal, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry. Rank Conditions on the Multiple View Matrix. International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 39, 2001.

Y. Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka, S. Sastry. Euclidean Reconstruction and Reprojection Up to Subgroups. the special issue of International Journal of Computer Vision for David Marr’s prize papers, vol. 38, no. 3, page 217-227, 2000.

S. Sastry. Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control, Springer Verlag, Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics Series, Volume 10, 1999