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05/2008 Andersson receives an award from the Agilent Foundation to pursue work on non-raster methods in AFM.
04/08/2008 Andersson gives a presentation on symbolic control at the Central New England chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
04/2008 New journal pub: Discretization of a continuous curve, IEEE Trans. Rob., Apr. 2008.
02/21/2008 Andersson presents work on tracking in confocal microscopy at Michigan State University.
The Andersson group at Boston University focuses on systems and control theory. We are primarily interested in the application areas of nanotechnology, nanobioscience, and robotics.
We believe the potential of scanning probe microscopy has not yet been realized. We are investigating novel methods for rapid imaging of samples and for studying dynamics in systems with nanometer-scale phenomena. By replacing the traditional raster-scan approach to imaging with feedback control laws which drive the sampling scheme, the domain of applicability of scanning probe technologies can be extended deeper into the realm of dynamic processes.
Our research on robotics centers on the framework of symbolic control. We aim to develop methods for handling the complexity of robotics in real-world environments. Ongoing work includes the use of symbols to tokenize the environment as well as the control and applications in cooperative control.
