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9.2009 Zhaolong Shen passes his prospectus exam. Good job!
9.2009 Peng Huang wins a Cheung Family Fellowship. Congratulations!
8.2009 Andersson (with A. Swan, H. Altug, T. Porter, and M. Smith wins an NSF grant to develop an undergraduate laboratory experience in nanotechnology devices and engineering.
8.2009 Andersson (with C. Belta) wins an NSF grant to study a formal approach to the control of stochastic dynamic systems.
7.2009 Andersson wins an NSF CAREER award
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.
