Ana Medina Ayala is awarded a student travel grant.

Ana Medina Ayala has been awarded a student travel grant to support her attendance to the 2011 IROS. She will be presenting her paper on temporal logic control in dynamic environments. Congratulations!

Two new conference publications accepted

Two papers from the Andersson group have recently been accepted to appear at the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Orlando, Fl. The papers are “Probabilistic bounds for complete scanning in non-raster atomic force microscopy” by Peter Chang and Sean B. Andersson and “Three-dimensional tracking of fluorescent nanoparticles in a confocal microscope” by […]

Catherine Chan-Tse named Clare Boothe Luce Scholar

Catherine Chan-Tse has been named a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar for the 2011 Summer term. This scholarship will support her research this summer on tracking single molecules using a confocal microscope.

Paper accepted to Mechatronics

The paper titled “Optimal measurement constellation of the fluoroBancroft localization algorithm for position estimation in tracking confocal microscopy” by Zhaolong Shen and Sean B. Andersson has been accepted for publication in Mechatronics. Congratulations!

Paper accepted to the Review of Scientific Instruments

The paper titled ““Local raster scanning for high speed imaging of biopolymers in atomic force microscopy” by Peter Chang, Peng Huang, Jungyeoul Maeng, and Sean Andersson has been accepted for publication in the Review of Scientific Instruments. Congratulations, all!

Paper accepted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing

The paper titled “Bias and precision of the fluoroBancroft algorithm for single particle localization in fluorescence microscopy” by Shen and Andersson has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Congratulations!

Andersson awarded NSF grant (as co-PI)

Natalia Broude (PI, BU-BME) and Sean B. Andersson (co-PI) were awarded a $253,669 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the localization and movement of RNA inside bacterial cells. See the NSF award announcement here.

Paper accepted to Applied Physics B

The paper title “A nonlinear controller for three-dimensional tracking of a fluorescent particle in a confocal microscope” by Sean B. Andersson has been accpted for publication in Applied Physics B. Congratulations!

Catherine Chan-Tse and Peter Galvin awarded summer UROP funding

Catherine Chan-Tse and Peter Galvin, two undergraduate members of the Andersson lab, have been awarded UROP summer research grants. Catherine will be working on modifying the confocal tracking algorithm in an attempt to dramatically increase the tracking speed. Peter will be working on developing and implementing control symbols on a iRobot Create platform. Congratulations!

Papers accepted to the 2011 American Control Conference

Two papers have been accepted for publication in the 2011 American Control Conference, one by Peng Huang and Sean B. Andersson (“Generating images from non-raster data”) and one by Morteza Lahijanian, Sean B. Andersson, and Calin Belta (“Controlling an MDP from a PCTL specification”). Congratulations!