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John Lygeros

John Lygeros

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
85
Citations
27562
World Ranking
386
National Ranking
11

Overview

John Lygeros is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on engineering-related research. Their scholarly work emphasizes control and systems engineering alongside electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, and automotive engineering as significant subfields.

The main topics addressed in their research include advanced control systems optimization, fault detection and control systems, control systems and identification, smart grid energy management, iterative learning control systems, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, and building energy and comfort optimization.

Among their recent publications are several papers spanning energy optimization, control methods, and predictive modeling:

  • Experimental demonstration of data predictive control for energy optimization and thermal comfort in buildings, 2020, Energy and Buildings
  • Electrolyzer modeling and real-time control for optimized production of hydrogen gas, 2020, Applied Energy
  • Physics-informed linear regression is competitive with two Machine Learning methods in residential building MPC, 2022, Applied Energy
  • Data-enabled predictive control for quadcopters, 2021, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
  • Decentralized Data-Enabled Predictive Control for Power System Oscillation Damping, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Efe C. Balta, Alisa Rupenyan, Florian Dörfler, Roy S. Smith, and Philipp Heer.

Their research outputs are predominantly published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich), IFAC-PapersOnLine, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Applications of Wireless Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks

    Th. Arampatzis;J. Lygeros;S. Manesis

  • Dynamical properties of hybrid automata

    J. Lygeros;K.H. Johansson;S.N. Simic;Jun Zhang

  • Controllers for reachability specifications for hybrid systems

    John Lygeros;Claire Tomlin;Shankar Sastry

  • A game theoretic approach to controller design for hybrid systems

    C.J. Tomlin;J. Lygeros;S. Shankar Sastry

  • On the regularization of Zeno hybrid automata

    Karl Henrik Johansson;Magnus Egerstedt;John Lygeros;Shankar Sastry

  • On Submodularity and Controllability in Complex Dynamical Networks

    Tyler H. Summers;Fabrizio L. Cortesi;John Lygeros

  • Probabilistic reachability and safety for controlled discrete time stochastic hybrid systems

    Alessandro Abate;Maria Prandini;John Lygeros;Shankar Sastry

  • Verified hybrid controllers for automated vehicles

    J. Lygeros;D.N. Godbole;S. Sastry

  • Data-Enabled Predictive Control: In the Shallows of the DeePC

    Jeremy Coulson;John Lygeros;Florian Dorfler

  • A probabilistic approach to aircraft conflict detection

    M. Prandini;J. Hu;J. Lygeros;S. Sastry

  • Impulse differential inclusions: a viability approach to hybrid systems

    J.-P. Aubin;J. Lygeros;M. Quincampoix;S. Sastry

  • Towars a Theory of Stochastic Hybrid Systems

    Jianghai Hu;John Lygeros;Shankar Sastry

  • In silico feedback for in vivo regulation of a gene expression circuit

    Andreas Milias-Argeitis;Sean Summers;Jacob Stewart-Ornstein;Ignacio Zuleta

  • Zeno hybrid systems

    Jun Zhang;Karl Henrik Johansson;John Lygeros;Shankar Sastry

  • Longitudinal control of the lead car of a platoon

    D.N. Godbole;J. Lygeros

  • A Probabilistic Framework for Reserve Scheduling and ${ m N}-1$ Security Assessment of Systems With High Wind Power Penetration

    Maria Vrakopoulou;Kostas Margellos;John Lygeros;Goran Andersson

  • On reachability and minimum cost optimal control

    John Lygeros

  • On the Road Between Robust Optimization and the Scenario Approach for Chance Constrained Optimization Problems

    Kostas Margellos;Paul Goulart;John Lygeros

  • Hamilton–Jacobi Formulation for Reach–Avoid Differential Games

    K. Margellos;J. Lygeros

  • Stochastic hybrid systems

    Christos G. Cassandras;John Lygeros

  • Arbitraging Intraday Wholesale Energy Market Prices With Aggregations of Thermostatic Loads

    Johanna L. Mathieu;Maryam Kamgarpour;John Lygeros;Goran Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
Claire J. Tomlin
Claire J. Tomlin University of California, Berkeley
Karl Henrik Johansson
Karl Henrik Johansson Royal Institute of Technology
Abu Sebastian
Abu Sebastian IBM Research - Zurich
Jan Maciejowski
Jan Maciejowski University of Cambridge
Manfred Morari
Manfred Morari University of Pennsylvania
George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Tzes
Anthony Tzes New York University Abu Dhabi

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