
Shankar Sastry's Home Page
Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Office: 284 HMMB, 514 Cory Hall
Phone: (510) 643-2200, (510) 642-1857
Fax: (510) 643-2356 Email: sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu
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Teaching

Research Interests
Hybrid and Embedded Control and Systems
Software Enabled Control
Networked Embedded Systems
Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Millirobotics for Minimally-Invasive surgery
Computer Vision
Generalized Principal Component Analysis and Unsupervised Learning
Berkeley AeroRobots: flying aircraft and rotorcraft.
Engineering Applications of Exterior Differential Systems. See parking movies on Dawn Tilbury's home page
Adaptation and Learning in Biological and Artificial Systems
See also CML: Learning Complex Motor Tasks in Natural and Artificial Systems
Air Traffic Management Systems

Major Research Projects
TRUST: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Security Technologies NSF Science and Technology Center
DETER: Cyberdefense Technology Evaluation and Research testbed , NSF and DHS Network Defense Testbed
Foundations of Hybrid and Embedded Software and Systems An NSF ITR with Vanderbilt and Memphis
Adaptive Coordinated Control of Intelligent Multi-Agent Teams (ACCLIMATE) An ARO MURI with U Penn and CMU
Network Embedded Systems Technology DARPA, NSF.
Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center NSF-ITR, DARPA.
Minimally-Invasive Telesurgery Supported by NSF, ONR, NASA, ARO.
Software Enabled Control , DARPA. Project Completed.
Intelligent Control Architectures for Unmanned Air Vehicles , ARO, ONR, Project Completed.
Air Traffic Management Systems supported by NASA, FAA. See also the homepage of NEXTOR
CML: Learning Complex Motor Tasks in Natural and Artificial Systems, NSF KDI Program, Project Completed.

Major Studies and Reports
NEW VISTAS IN CIP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: sECURE NETWORK EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Report of the NSF-OSTP Workshop on Innovative Information Technologies for Critical Infrastructure protection
September 20-22, 2002
Shankar Sastry, Jack Stankovic, and Janos Sztipanovits
NEW HORIZONS IN BIOSYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND CONTROL
Report of the NSF Workshop on Analysis, Control and Adaptation
of Dynamical Systems in Biology
November 13-15, 1995
R. J. Full and S. S. Sastry
(PDF format) , (postscript format) report preparation thanks to Court Lewis and preparation for the web thanks to Jeff Wendlandt .

(Not so) Recent Papers
A searchable index of recent papers is being compiled and papers being scanned at the current time to add to the home page: Please stay tuned!
Optimal Path planning on Matrix Lie Groups
by G. Walsh, R. Montgomery and S. Sastry
Millirobotics for Telesurgery
by M. Cohn, L. Crawford, J. Wendlandt and S. Sastry
Hierarchical Hybrid Control: a Case Study
by D. Godbole, J. Lygeros and S. Sastry
Bounded Tracking for Nonminimum Phase Systems with Fast Zero Dynamics
by C. Tomlin and S. Sastry
Switching Through Singularities
by C. Tomlin and S. Sastry
Conflict Resolution for Air Traffic Management: A Case Study in Muli_Agent Hybrid Systems
by C. Tomlin, G. Pappas, and S. Sastry
A Next Generation Architecture for Air Traffic Management Systems
by C. Tomlin, G. Pappas, J. Lygeros, D. Godbole and S. Sastry
Controllers for Reachability Specifications for Hybrid Systems
by J. Lygeros, C. Tomlin and S. Sastry
A Design Framework for Hierarchical, Hybrid Control
by J. Lygeros, D. Godbole and S. Sastry
A Verified Hybrid Controller for Automated Vehicles
by J. Lygeros, D. Godbole and S. Sastry
Optimal Control Approach to Multi-agent, Hierarchical System Verification
by J. Lygeros, D. Godbole and S. Sastry
Biological Motor Control Approaches for a Planar Diver
by L. Crawford and S. Sastry
Recursive Workspace Control of Multibody Systems: A Planar Biped Example
by J. Wendlandt and S. Sastry

Recent Books
Murray, Li and Sastry, "A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation", CRC Press, 1994.
Antsaklis, Kohn, Nerode and Sastry (Editors), "Hybrid Systems II", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 999, Springer Verlag, 1995.
Antsaklis, Kohn, Nerode and Sastry (Editors), "Hybrid Systems IV", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1273, Springer Verlag, 1997.
Henzinger and Sastry (Editors), "Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1386 Springer Verlag, 1998.
Baillieul, Sastry and Sussmann (Editors), "Essays in Mathematical Robotics", IMA Series Vol. 104, Springer Verlag, 1998.
Sastry, "Nonlinear Systems; Analysis, Stability, and Control", Springer Verlag, 1999.
Y. Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry "An Invitation to 3-D Vision From Images to Models". Springer Verlag, 2003.

Books in Preparation
For details on these books please contact any of the co-authors:
Lygeros, Tomlin, Sastry (order tbd), "Hybrid Systems and Control".
Vidal, Ma, Sastry, "Generalized Principal Component Analysis: Estimation and Segmentation of Hybrid Models".

On-line copies of (not so recent) talks
Optimal Control on Lie Groups,
(Postscript format)
Millirobotics for Minimally Invasive Remote Surgery,
(HTML format)
Millirobotics for Surgery, Vienna ICAR 1996
(HTML format)

Current Graduate Students
Aaron Ames
Marci Meingast
Tanya Roosta
Cory Sharp
Phoebus Chen
Parvez Ahmmad
Milos Drezgic
Bonnie Zhu
Shawn Shaffert
Alessandro Abate
Bruno Sinopoli
Songhwai Oh
Wei Chung Wu

Current Post Doctoral Scholars
Christopher Geyer October 2002-present
Jonathan Sprinkle August 2003-present
Mike Eklund August 2003-present
David Shim Research Engineer, BEAR Laboratory Manager

Recent Doctoral Students
Xin-Yan Deng July 2004, now at University of Delaware
Luca Schenato December 2003, now at University of Padova, Italy
Shannon Zelinksy, MS, July 2004, Now at NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA
Omid Shakernia December 2003, now at Northrup Grumann, Los Angeles
Jun Zhang December 2003, now at University of California, Berkeley
Rene Vidal August 2003, now at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Jianghai Hu December 2003, Now at Purdue University, Lafayette
Judith Lieberman MS December 2002, now at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
Cedric Ma MS December 2002, now at Northrup Grumann, Los Angeles
Hyoun Jin Kim December 2001, now at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Hyunchul (David) Shim November 2000, now at University of California, Berkeley, CA
Cenk Cavusoglu September 2000, now at Case Western University, Cleveland
John Koo August 2000, now at Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Yi Ma August 2000, now at Univ. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL
George Pappas December 1998, now at Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Claire Tomlin September 1998, now at Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Lara Crawford August 1998, now at PARC, Palo Alto, CA
Jeffrey Wendlandt October 1997, now at Math Works, Worcester, MA.
Charles Coleman April 1997, now at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Antonia Lindsey April 1997, now at NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA.
Steve Burgett December 1996, now at Yasukawa Motors, San Francisco, CA.
John Lygeros, May 1996, currently in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Dattaprabodh Godbole, December 1994, now at Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis.
Dawn Tilbury, November 1994, now at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gregory Walsh, September 1994, now at the University of Maryland, College Park
Linda Bushnell, August 1994 now at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Recent Post Graduate Scholar Alumni
Massimo Franceschetti Now at University of California, San Diego, CA
Slobodan Simic Now at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Ian Mitchell Now at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Jana Kosecka Now at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Maria Prandini Now at Politecnico Di Milano, Milano, Italy
Ekaterina Lemch Now at Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada
Joao Hespanha Now at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Karl Henrik Johansson Now at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Sepanta Sekhavat Now at INRIA, Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Shankar Sastry (sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu) / Updated April 2005.