Decision and Control

Introduction

Facial recognition systems that unmask criminals in disguise.
Traffic systems that operate autonomously. And algorithms that unlock
the mysteries of disease.

At the University of Illinois’ Decision and Control Laboratory,
CSL researchers are achieving breakthroughs
in the discipline of decision and control,
leading to a greater understanding of complex, dynamic systems
ranging from the Internet to the economy.

Decision and Control

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Decision and Control News

Deng wins best student paper at IEEE control conference

February 8, 2010 - 9:53am Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, Decision and Control

Kun Deng, Mechanical Engineering graduate student, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Shanghai, China in December.

Alum Horst develops novel robotic knee

November 11, 2009 - 1:28pm Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, bionic knee, medical device, rehabilitation, robotic, Decision and Control

While Robert Horst was in high school, he suffered a knee injury that required three surgeries to fix. He endured a long healing process, and the primitive rehabilitation technology used frustrated him. So he decided to do something about it.

Illinois researchers win Best Student Paper for research advancing computer vision

October 9, 2009 - 2:25pm Megan Kelly, CSL 3D, adapative texture, All CSL, boundary encoding, Computer Vision, image segmentation, Decision and Control

ECE professor Yi Ma, graduate students Shankar Rao and Hossein Mobahi, and 2006 Ph.D. ECE alumnus Allen Yang won the 2009 Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award) at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

InfoStructure seminar series to challenge intersections between technology and society

October 9, 2009 - 9:02am Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, Communications, infostructure, mp3, seminar series, technology, Decision and Control

Imagine the success of the iPhone without millions of busy people who demand information on the run. Or consider the viability of MySpace without the legion of teens, like, dying to be connected to their social network with one click.

Neither would exist without the other. But too often, information technology is discussed as though it were independent of society, a chasm that graduate students at the University of Illinois are hoping to bridge through a new educational initiative.

Student Robert Gregg earns ACC's Hugo Schuck Award for robotics work

April 24, 2009 - 11:07am Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, American Control Council, Hugo Schuck, Robert Gregg, Robotics, Decision and Control

CSL researcher Robert Gregg has been awarded the American Control Council’s 2009 Hugo Schuck Award for his work on control methods for dynamic walking robots. Gregg won the best student paper for the same research at last year’s ACC.

His paper, “Reduction-based Control with Application to Three-Dimensional Bipedal Walking Robots," unveils a new way of controlling robots to mimic human walking. The paper was co-authored by ECE Professor Mark W. Spong.

Facial recognition coming soon to a security camera near you

December 16, 2008 - 1:36pm Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, electrical and computer engineering, facial recognition, sparse representation, Decision and Control

Beware thieves and other ne'er-do-wells: Those sunglasses and other disguises may soon no longer protect your identity if CSL researcher Yi Ma and his group have anything to do with it.

Ma and his students have developed a facial-recognition algorithm that can identify an individual even if the image is corrupted or occluded. The algorithm works with 90 to 95 percent accuracy when the nose, eyes or mouth is obscured, either by disguise or a corrupted image.