People: Astrobiology Faculty

Kristi Morgansen
Aeronautics and Astronautics

My research interests focus on control for nonlinear and coordinated control systems. Current topics include the use of fish-like propulsive methods for locomotion and active flow control, control of coordinated systems with communication constraints, bioinspired systems, vision-based sensing for state estimation, learning methods for nonlinear systems, and integration of human operators in multivehicle systems. These topics have direct relevance to astrobiology in that they serve the purpose of enabling science missions both in the oceans on our own planet as well as potentially serving science missions on extraterrestrial bodies such as Europa. In such environments, data collection robots must be capable of operating in dynamic environments with limited human interaction in the presence of limited power, computation, sensing and communication.

More information about our project can be found at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Nonlinear Dynamics and Controls Laboratory.

Publications

D. J. Klein, P. Lee, K. A. Morgansen, and T. Javidi. Integration of communication and control using discrete time Kuramoto models for multivehicle coordination over broadcast networks. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007.

D. J. Klein, C. Matlack and K. A. Morgansen. Cooperative target tracking using oscillator models in 3D. In Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference.