Carnegie Mellon
  

Bruno Sinopoli

 
           
Bruno
 
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical and Computer Engineering 5000 Forbes Avenue
With Courtesy Appointments in Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
           Robotics Institute and  Office: Porter Hall B30
           Mechanical Engineering Tel: (412) 268-9432
Faculty Assistant: Claire Bauerle Fax: (412) 268-3890
Bruno Sinopoli's Official Home Page Email: brunos at ece.cmu.edu
 
           
      CV – Biographical Data
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    Bruno Sinopoli's CV    
           
      Education
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      Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
      M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
    Laurea, Electrical Engineering, Università di Padova
           
      Research Interests
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    Analysis and design of networked embedded control systems, with applications to sensor actuators networks
           
      Awards
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    2006 Eliahu Jury award for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing
           
      Journal Publications (Selected)
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A Quest for the Critical Value for Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. To be submitted.
Y. Mo and B. Sinopoli

Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations: Weak Convergence to a Stationary Distribution
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Under review.
S. Kar, B. Sinopoli, and J. Moura

LQG Control For Distributed Systems Over TCP-like Erasure Channels
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Under review
E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Goldsmith, and A. Casavola

LQG Control over Lossy TCP-like Networks with Probabilistic Packet Acknowledgements
International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications. Special issue on Information Processing
and Decision Making in Distributed Control Systems. Accepted, to appear.
A. Garone, B. Sinopoli, and A. Casavola

Optimal Linear LQG Control Over Lossy Networks Without Packet Acknowledgment
Asian Journal of Control. Special Issue on Networked Embedded Hybrid Control Systems.
Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2008
B. Sinopoli, L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119195589/PDF . . .

Foundations of Control and Estimation over Lossy Networks
Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Networked Control Systems. Vol. 95, Issue 1, January 2007
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry

A Kernel-Based Learning Approach to Ad Hoc Sensor Network Localization
Proceedings of the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. August 2006
with M. Jordan, X. Nguyen, S. Schaffert

Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Special Issue on Networked Control Systems. September 2004
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, M. Jordan and S. Sastry

Distributed Control Applications Within Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Sensor Networks and Applications. August 2003
with C. Sharp, L. Schenato, S. Schaffert and S. Sastry

           
      Refereed Conference Publications (Selected)
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Network Energy Minimization via Sensor Selection and Topology Control
First IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys09)
24-26 September 2009, Venice (Italy). Submitted.

A Convex Optimization Approach of Multi-Step Sensor Selection under Correlated Noise
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
Shanghai, China, December 2009. Submitted.

Network Lifetime Maximization via Sensor Selection
Proceedings of the Asian Control Conference. Hong Kong, October 2009.
Y. Mo, L. Shi, R. Ambrosino, B. Sinopoli

A Characterization of the Critical Value for Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Cancun, Mexico, December 2008
Y. Mo, B. Sinopoli

LQG Control Over Multi-Channel TCP-like Erasure Networks with Probabilistic Packet Acknowledgements
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Cancun, Mexico, December 2008
E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Casavola

Distributed Sensor Localization in Euclidean Spaces: Dynamic Environments
Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
Monticello, IL, September 2008
U. A. Khan, S. Kar, B. Sinopoli, J. M. F. Moura

Optimal Sensor Density for Remote Estimation Over Wireless Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
Monticello, IL, September 2008
R. Ambrosino, B. Sinopoli, K. Poolla, S. Sastry

Mechanisms to Provide Integrity in SCADA and PCS Devices
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems - Challenges and Applications (CPS-CA '08).
Santorini, Greece, June 2008
A. Shah, A. Perrig, B. Sinopoli

A Testbed for Secure and Robust SCADA Systems
Proceedings of 14th IEEE Real-time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '08).
Saint Louis, MO, April 2008.
A. Giani, G. Karsai, T. Roosta, A. Shah, B. Sinopoli, J. Wiley

A Relaxation Approach to Dynamic Sensor Selection in Large-Scale Wireless Networks
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems. Beijing, China, January 2008
E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Goldsmith, and A. Casavola

LQG Control for Distributed Systems over TCP-like Erasure Channels
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. New Orleans, LA, December 2007
E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Goldsmith, and A. Casavola
Best Student Paper Finalist

Effective Sensor Scheduling Schemes in a Sensor Network by Employing Feedback in the Communication Loop
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control. Singapore, October 2007
L. Shi, M. Epstein, B. Sinopoli, R. M. Murray

LQG Control over Lossy TCP-like Networks with Probabilistic Packet Acknowledgements
The Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL, September 2007
E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Casavola

Estimation over Wireless Sensor Networks
Proceedings of American Control Conference. New York, NY, June 2007
B. Zhu, B. Sinopoli, K. Poolla

Optimal Sensing Rate for Estimation over Shared Communication Links
Proceedings of American Control Conference. New York, NY, June 2007
S. Adlakha, B. Sinopoli, A. Goldsmith

Optimal Linear LQG Control Over Lossy Networks Without Packet Acknowledgment
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. San Diego, CA, December 2006
B. Sinopoli, L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, S. Sastry

Receding Horizon Networked Control
The Forty-Fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing. Monticello, IL, September 2006
V. Gupta, B. Sinopoli, S. Adlakha, and A. Goldsmith

Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Surveillance
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006. May 2006, pages 3128-3133
P. Chen, Songhwai Oh, M. Manzo, B. Sinopoli, C. Sharp, K. Whitehouse, O. Tolle, Jaein Jeong, P. Dutta, J. Hui, S. Schaffert,
Sukun Kim, J. Taneja, B. Zhu, T. Roosta, M. Howard, D. Culler, and S. Sastry

An LQG Optimal Linear Controller for Control Systems with Packet Losses

Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Seville, Spain, December 2005
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry

Estimation and Control over Lossy Networks
The Forty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL, September 2005
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry

LQG Control with Missing Observation and Control Packets
Sixteenth IFAC World Congress. Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/710500/description#description

Optimal Control with Unreliable Communication: the TCP Case
Proceedings of American Control Conference. Portland, OR, June 2005
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry

Time Varying Optimal Control with Packet Losses
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry

A Kernel-based Learning Approach to Ad Hoc Sensor Network Localization
AAAI-2004 Workshop on Sensor Networks. San Jose, July 2004
with X. Nguyen and M. I. Jordan
http://www.aaai.org/Press/Proceedings/aaai04.php

Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
Proceedings of IEEE CDC 2003. December 2003
with L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, M. Jordan and S. Sastry

Vision Based Navigation for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA). Seoul, May 2001
with M. Micheli, G. Donato, J. Koo and S. Sastry

Hierarchical Hybrid System Model and Its Simulation
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Phoenix, December 1999
with J. Liu, X. Liu, T. J. Koo, S. Sastry, and E. A. Lee

A Formal Approach to Reactive System Design: A UAV Flight Management System Design Example
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design.
Kohala Coast, Hawaii, August 1999
with T. J. Koo, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and S. Sastry

Hierarchical Hybrid System Design on Berkeley UAV
International Aerial Robotics Competition. Richland, Washington, USA, August 1998
with T. J. Koo, D. H. Shim, O. Shakernia, Y. Ma, F. Hoffmann, and S. Sastry
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.7.5321

Hybrid Control of an Autonomous Helicopter
Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Motion Control. Grenoble, France, September 1998
with T. J. Koo, F. Hoffmann, and S. Sastry
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.4973
           
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