Publications

E. Klavins. Programmable self-assembly. Control Systems Magazine, 24(4):43-56, August 2007. See the cover! (bib) (html)

J. Bishop and E. Klavins. An improved autonomous DNA nanomotor. Nano Letters, July 2007. (bib) (html)

Steve Waydo, John Hauser, Robert Bailey, Eric Klavins, and Richard Murray. UAV as a reliable wingman: A flight demonstration. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 15(4):680-688, July 2007. (bib)

J. Bishop and E. Klavins. Improved repeatability of an autonomous dna nanomotor. In 4th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience, Snowbird, UT, April 2007. Poster + Abstract. (bib)

N. Napp and E. Klavins. An extended state-space markov chain model for self-organizing systems in non-well-mixed environments. In 4th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience, Snowbird, UT, April 2007. Contributed Talk + Abstract. (bib)

M. Yim, W.M. Shen, B. Salemi, D. Rus, M. Moll, H. Lipson, E. Klavins, and G.S. Chirickjian. Modular self-reconfigurable robot systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 14(1):43-52, March 2007. (bib) (html)

C. Belta, A. Bicchi, M. Egerstedt, E. Frazzoli, E. Klavins, and G.J. Pappas. Symbolic planning and control of robot motion. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 14(1):61-70, March 2007. (bib) (html)

John-Michael McNew, Eric Klavins, and Magnus Egerstedt. Solving coverage problems with embedded graph grammars. In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2007. To appear in an upcoming LNCS volume. (bib) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Self-assembly from the point of view of its pieces. In American Control Conference, June 2006. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

John-Michael McNew and Eric Klavins. Model-checking and control of self-assembly. In American Control Conference, June 2006. (bib) (pdf)

Eric Klavins, Robert Ghrist, and David Lipsky. A grammatical approach to self-organizing robotic systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(6):949-962, June 2006. (bib) (html)

Sam Burden, Nils Napp, and Eric Klavins. The statistical dynamics of programmed robotic self-assembly. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 1469-1476, May 2006. (bib) (pdf)

S. Burden, N. Napp, and E. Klavins. Tuning reaction networks for self-assembly. In 3rd Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience, Snowbird, UT, April 2006. Poster + Abstract. (bib)

Eric Klavins, Samuel Burden, and Nils Napp. Optimal rules for programmed stochastic self-assembly. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadelphia, PA, 2006. (bib) (pdf)

Josh Bishop and Eric Klavins. Collective sensing with self-organizing robots. In 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 4175-4181, 2006. (bib) (pdf)

John-Michael McNew and Eric Klavins. Locally interacting hybrid systems with embedded graph grammars. In 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 6080-6087, 2006. (bib) (pdf)

Domitilla Del Vecchio, Richard Murray, and Eric Klavins. Discrete state estimators for systems on a lattice. Automatica, 42(2):271-285, 2006. (bib)

John-Michael McNew and Eric Klavins. A grammatical approach to cooperative control: The wanderers and scouts example. In S. Butenko, R. Murphey, and P. Pardalos, editors, Cooperative Control. 2005. In Press. (bib) (pdf)

J. Bishop, S. Burden, E. Klavins, R. Kreisberg, W. Malone, N. Napp, and T. Nguyen. Self-organizing programmable parts. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ Robotics and Automation Society, 2005. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Universal self-replication using graph grammars. In The 2004 International Conference on MEMs, NANO and Smart Systems, Banff, Canada, 2004. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Directed self-assembly using graph grammars. In Foundations of Nanoscience: Self Assembled Architectures and Devices, Snowbird, UT, 2004. Invited Talk + Extended Abstract. This online version has some corrections. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins, Robert Ghrist, and David Lipsky. Graph grammars for self-assembling robotic systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. A language for modeling and programming cooperative control systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins and Richard M. Murray. Distributed algorithms for cooperative control. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 3(1):56-65, 2004. (bib)

Eric Klavins. A formal model of a multi-robot control and communication task. In 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Domitilla Del Vecchio and Eric Klavins. Observation of hybrid guarded command programs. In 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003. (bib)

Steve Waydo, Bill Dunbar, and Eric Klavins. Toward feedback stabilization of faulty software systems: A case study. In 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Toward the control of self-assembling systems. In A. Bicchi, H. Christensen, and D. Prattichizzo, editors, Control Problems in Robotics, volume 4 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pages 153-168. Springer, 2003. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Communication complexity of multi-robot systems. In J.-D. Boissonnat, J. Burdick, K. Goldberg, and S. Hutchinson, editors, Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics V, volume 7 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pages 275-292. Springer, 2003. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Lars Cremean, Bill Dunbar, Dave van Gogh, Jason Hickey, Eric Klavins, Jason Meltzer, and Richard M. Murray. The Caltech multi-vehicle wireless testbed. In 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, December 2002. (bib)

Eric Klavins and Uluc Saranli. Object oriented state machines. Embedded Systems Magazine, pages 30-42, May 2002. (bib)

Eric Klavins. Automatic synthesis of controllers for distributed assembly and formation forming. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, May 2002. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. Automatically synthesized controllers for distributed assembly: Partial correctness. In S. Butenko, R. Murphey, and P. M. Pardalos, editors, Cooperative Control: Models, Applications and Algorithms, pages 111-127. Kluwer, 2002. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins and Daniel E. Koditschek. Phase regulation of decentralized cyclic robotic systems. International Journal of Robotics Research, 21(3):257-276, 2002. (bib) (html)

Timothy Chung, Lars Cremean, Bill Dunbar, Zhipu Jin, Eric Klavins, Dave Moore, Abhishek Tiwari, Dave van Gogh, and Steve Waydo. A platform for cooperative and coordinated control of multiple vehicles: The Caltech multi-vehicle wireless testbed. In Proceedings of the Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization. Kluwer, 2002. (bib)

Eric Klavins. Decentralized Phase Regulation of Cyclic Robotic Systems. PhD thesis, University of Michigan, June 2001. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins, Haldun Komsuoglu, Robert J. Full, and Daniel E. Koditschek. The role of reflexes versus central pattern generators in dynamical legged locomotion. In J. Ayers, J. Davis, and A. Rudolph, editors, Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots. MIT Press, 2001. (bib)

Eric Klavins and Daniel E. Koditschek. Stability of hybrid coupled oscillators. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, 2001. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins, Daniel E. Koditschek, and Robert Ghrist. Toward the regulation and composition of cyclic behaviors. In B. R. Donald, K. M. Lynch, and D. Rus, editors, Algorithmic and Computational Robotics: New Directions (2000 WAFR), pages 205-220. A. K. Peters, 2001. (bib) (ps)

Eric Klavins. Automatic compilation of concurrent hybrid factories from product assembly specifications. In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, LNCS 1790, pages 174-187. Springer-Verlag, 2000. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins and Daniel E. Koditschek. A formalism for the composition of concurrent robot behaviors. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, 2000. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. The construction of attention functions for phase regulation. Technical Report CSE-TR-422-00, University of Michigan, 2000. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins. A formalism for the composition of loosely coupled robot behaviors. Technical Report CSE-TR-412-99, University of Michigan, 1999. (bib) (ps) (pdf)

Eric Klavins, William C. Rounds, and Quo-Qiang Zhang. Experimenting with power default reasoning. In Proceedings of AAAI-98, Madison, WI, 1998. (bib) (ps)