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A. Stephen Morse

A. Stephen Morse

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
87
Citations
50436
World Ranking
336
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to geometric control theory, adaptive control, and the stability of hybrid systems.
  • 1999 - IEEE Control Systems Award "For pioneering the geometric approach to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory."
  • 1984 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory of multivariable control systems.

Overview

A. Stephen Morse is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has made significant contributions in the field of computer science, particularly focusing on control and systems engineering and computer networks and communications. Their research spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, statistical and nonlinear physics, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's main research topics include distributed control multi-agent systems, stability and control of uncertain systems, distributed systems and fault tolerance, optimization and search problems, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Morse include Ji Liu, Kalle Åström, Robert R. Bitmead, Guy A. Dumont, and Robert L. Kosut.

Morse has published numerous papers in several prominent venues, reflecting a focus on areas such as adaptive control and signal processing as well as automatic control. The key publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
  • Automatica
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

Recent papers authored by or involving Morse address topics in distributed state estimation, linear systems, and control theory. Selected recent publications include:

  • "A hybrid observer for estimating the state of a distributed linear system," 2022, Automatica
  • "Split-spectrum based distributed state estimation for linear systems," 2023, Automatica
  • "Games on signed graphs," 2022, Automatica
  • "A Distributed Observer for a Continuous-Time Linear System with time-varying network," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Distributed Feedback Control of Multichannel Linear Systems," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

The scientist has been recognized with several awards over their career. These include the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2013, being named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2011, and becoming a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002, particularly noted for contributions to geometric control theory, adaptive control, and the stability of hybrid systems.

Additional honors include the IEEE Control Systems Award in 1999 for work on geometric approaches to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory, as well as being named an IEEE Fellow in 1984 for contributions to the theory of multivariable control systems.

Best Publications

  • Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules

    A. Jadbabaie;Jie Lin;A.S. Morse

  • Systematic Design of Adaptive Controllers for Feedback Linearizable Systems

    I. Kanellakopoulos;P. V. Kokotovic;A. S. Morse

  • Basic problems in stability and design of switched systems

    D. Liberzon;A.S. Morse

  • Stability of switched systems with average dwell-time

    J.P. Hespanha;A.S. Morse

  • Supervisory control of families of linear set-point controllers - Part I. Exact matching

    A.S. Morse

  • Stability of switched systems: a Lie-algebraic condition

    Daniel Liberzon;João P. Hespanha;A.Stephen Morse

  • Decoupling and Pole Assignment in Linear Multivariable Systems: A Geometric Approach

    W. M. Wonham;A. S. Morse

  • A Theory of Network Localization

    J. Aspnes;T. Eren;D.K. Goldenberg;A.S. Morse

  • Global stability of parameter-adaptive control systems

    A. Morse

  • Rigidity, computation, and randomization in network localization

    T. Eren;O.K. Goldenberg;W. Whiteley;Y.R. Yang

  • Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment: A Graphical Approach

    Ming Cao;A. Stephen Morse;Brian D. O. Anderson

  • Control Using Logic-Based Switching

    A. Stephen Morse

  • Switching between stabilizing controllers

    JoãO P. Hespanha;A.Stephen Morse

  • Structural Invariants of Linear Multivariable Systems

    A. S. Morse

  • Supervisory control of families of linear set-point controllers. 2. Robustness

    A.S. Morse

  • Applications of hysteresis switching in parameter adaptive control

    A.S. Morse;D.Q. Mayne;G.C. Goodwin

  • The multi-agent rendezvous problem

    J. Lin;A.S. Morse;B.D.O. Anderson

  • Status of noninteracting control

    A. Morse;W. Wonham

  • Towards mobility as a network control primitive

    David Kiyoshi Goldenberg;Jie Lin;A. Stephen Morse;Brad E. Rosen

  • Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment: Convergence Rates, Measurement Delays, and Asynchronous Events

    Ming Cao;A. Stephen Morse;Brian D. O. Anderson

  • Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference

    Ming Cao;A.S. Morse

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian D. O. Anderson
Brian D. O. Anderson Australian National University
Joao P. Hespanha
Joao P. Hespanha University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Liberzon
Daniel Liberzon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ming Cao
Ming Cao University of Groningen
Changbin Yu
Changbin Yu Australian National University
Tamer Basar
Tamer Basar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Claudio De Persis
Claudio De Persis University of Groningen
Eduardo D. Sontag
Eduardo D. Sontag Northeastern University
Seth Hutchinson
Seth Hutchinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Soura Dasgupta
Soura Dasgupta University of Iowa

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