John Baillieul, PhD

Distinguished Professor (ME, SE Appointed, ECE)

Office 730 Commonwealth Ave, EMA 208
Email johnb@bu.edu
Phone (617)353-9848
Website John Baillieul

In the News

Learning From Animal Behaviors to Inform Control Systems
March 13, 2023
Research by Distinguished Professor of Engineering John Bailleul questions how animals operate and how you might use animal behaviors to design control systems. [ More ]

Publications

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Research Areas

Professor Baillieul focuses on robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. His work in the late 1980’s led to seminal papers on motion planning for kinematically redundant manipulators. Earlier work on nonlinear optimal control theory foreshadowed much of the current literature on singular Riemannian geometry. Current research focuses on extending and applying principles from nonlinear control theory to complex mechanical systems composed of interconnected rigid and elastic components.
Dr. Baillieul has developed a laboratory system for experiments involving real-time control of mechanical systems, research fundamental to the design of lightweight, high-performance manipulator arms and other advanced robotic devices. He also investigates geometric effects in nonlinear rotational mechanics, with potential applications in stabilization and vibration suppression in rotating machinery, and the theory of control and motion planning for mechanical systems with relatively few actuators for the control of a large number of degrees of freedom.
A Fellow of the IEEE, he is the former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is also affiliated with Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE).

Honors and Awards

Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2011
Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009
Inaugural recipient of the BU Charles DeLisi Award, 2008
Editor-in-Chief, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2006-2011
President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
Fellow, IEEE, 1993
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1992-1998

Additional Affiliations

Division of Systems Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Departments or Divisions: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Systems Engineering

Affiliations: Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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