Baris Fidan

I am a senior researcher working under the research theme Managing Complexity and mostly involved with the NICTA-DSTO project SWARM. I am an adjunct academic at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University as well.

My research interests include:
AUTONOMOUS FORMATIONS AND SENSOR NETWORKS

• Control of Autonomous Formations/Swarms
• Information Structures for Formations and Sensor Networks
• Sensor/Emitter/Agent Localization
• Cooperative Geolocation: Coverage Problems
• Graph Theoretical Methods
• Rigidity, Persistence, and Robustness

• Robust Adaptive Control
• Nonlinear/Switching Control of Multivariable/Time Varying/Multi-Agent Systems
• Triangular Systems and Backstepping Control
• Adaptive/Nonlinear Observer and Filter Design
• Supervisory Control

• Flight Control of High Performance Aircraft and Hypersonic Vehicles
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Control
• Disk Drive Servo-Systems
• Control of Vehicular/Transportation Systems
• Applications of Adaptive/Switching Control in Communication and Traffic
• Modeling and Control Issues in Micro/Nano Technology

• Multi-Agent Systems
• Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots
• Articulated/Reconfigurable Robots
• Active Vision and Vision Based Control
• Neural Network Based Approaches