Research in LIDS
The current research activities of the laboratory cover a wide range of theoretical and applied areas in Learning, Adaptation, and Layered Intelligent Systems, Communication Science and Systems, Control Theory, Estimation and Signal Processing, Algorithms, and Perceptual Systems and Machine Learning. These areas are broadly characterized as follows:
- Communications
- Systems, Detection, Estimation & Optimization
- Control
The following interdisciplainary research groups are established within LIDS for research in two of the above areas:
- The Stochastic Systems Group (SSG), led by Prof. Alan Willsky, focus of research is on the development of statistically-based algorithms and methodologies for complex problems of information extraction from signals, images, and other sources of data.
- The Control Systems Group, including the Information Control Engineering Group, are interested in problems related to the modeling, identification, and control of systems.
The MIT/Draper Technology Development Partnership Program is concerned with the development of innovative aerospace surveillance technologies rooted in the combined fields of control systems, information technology, aerodynamics and systems engineering. Prof Deyst represents LIDS in this project.
Research Interests of Faculty
Faculty
Research interests in the architecture, technology, system designs, and testbed implementations of optical, wireless and space communications and networks system. Research interests in optimization methods, data communication networks, neural networks, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, network optimization, parallel and distributed computation, neuro-dynamic programming, and estimation and control of stochastic systems.
Research interests in optimization of stochastic systems, queueing theory, dynamic vehicle routing, approximation algorithms in discrete optimization, and applications in air transportation and finance. Research interests in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science and complexity theory, computational biology and evolutionary theory, and computational linguistics. Research interests in optimal and robust control synthesis, control-oriented system identification, adaptive control, infinite-dimensional programming problems, and in applications covering semi-conductor manufacturing, cerebellar control and application to biological systems. Research interests in information systems for aerospace vehicles, control theory and methods, fault tolerant systems, sensors for aerospace vehicles, and lean aerospace development and production.
Research interests in coding and decoding for Euclidean-space channels; power- and bandwidth-efficient communication; connections between coding theory and system theory; complexity, combined equalization and coding; and quantum communications. Research interests in data communication networks, wireless communications, optical networks, information theory, and distributed algorithms. Research interests in control of noisy & nonlinear systems, dynamics and thermodynamics of smart heat engines, control of complex systems, quantum computing and quantum control. Research interests in modeling the nervous system for scientific as well as biomedical and non-medical device design purposes, general physiological modeling and the development of automatic bicontrol systems for anesthesia and intensive/emergency medical care. Research interests in high-speed access networks, wireless/optical interface, robustness and reliability of optical networks, wideband wireless channels, capacity of time-varying channels, and capacity of packetized wireless channel. Research interests cover nonlinear dynamical system analysis, design and validation of hybrid control algorithms, optimization (LP,LMI,convex,non-convex etc.), and applications in flight control, control of production, control of animated objects, and relay systems. Current research interests are theory of stochastic and adaptive control, mathematical physics and its relationship to system theory, image analysis and computer vision, and structure, function and organization of complex systems. Research interests in Optimization, with emphasis on nonlinear programming, convex analysis, and appplications to data networks. Research interests in the application of quantum communication and measurement; the generation, detection, and application of squeezed-state light beams; atmospheric optical communication; and coherent laser radar. Research interests in dynamics and controls, information-driven mechanical systems, robots, manipulators and teleoperators, nonlinear control, and learning systems. Research interests in microwave and infrared remote sensing from satellites, signal processing, compression and estimation, neural networks, and communications. Research interests in neuro-dynamic programming, analysis and control of stochastic systems, communication networks and queueing theory, computational complexity in systems and control, parallel and distributed computation, data fusion, optimization, control and system identification; and estimation and learning. Research interests in dynamic systems, switched/periodic systems, estimation, control and signal processing, network structure, dynamics, and applications in power electronics, power systems and electrical machines. Research interests in estimation, stochastic systems, and statistical signal and image processing. Multiresolution methods, image reconstruction, large-scale data assimilation and multisensor fusion, computer vision, and graphical models for inference on complex phenomena. Application from a wide variety of fields, including low-level computer vision and segmentation, medical image processing, remote sensing, object recognition and activity estimation. Research interests are the application of mathematical and statistical theories to communication, detection, and estimation problems including measurement and modeling of time-varying channels, design and analysis of multiple antenna systems, ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) communications systems, space communications systems, and optical communications systems. Research interests include wireless communications, space-time codes, network information theory, wireless networks, etc. * Co-affiliated
