Michail Zavlanos | Scholars@Duke

Michail Zavlanos
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Michael M. Zavlanos specializes in the area of networked control systems, distributed control and optimization, hybrid control, with applications to robotic, sensor, communication, and biomolecular networks.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2018
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2017

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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2008
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering 2012 - 2018
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2013 - 2018
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 29, 2018
  
  Four Faculty Named Distinguished Professors
Awards & Honors
Research
Selected Grants
- Controlling Intermittently Connected Autonomous Robot Teams in Underwater Environments awarded by Office of Naval Research 2018 - 2022
- CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Smart Ultrasound Elastography for Improved Medical Imaging awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
- REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2020
- EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Design of an Agile and Smart Manufacturing Exchange: Enabling Small Businesses through Standardized Protocols and Distributed Optimization awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Distributed Real-Time Optimization of Mobile Wireless Networks awarded by Office of Naval Research 2014 - 2017
- NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Optimal Communication for Fast Sensor Network Coordination awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2017
- RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: Mobile Microrobot Swarm Platform for Advanced Manufacturing Applications awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2017
- CAREER: Control of Mobile Robot Networks: Integrating the Communication and Physical Domains awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2017
- CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Controlling Teams of Autonomous Mobile Beamformers awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2017
- MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Stereoscopic Interactive Visualization System for Research and Education in Scienc awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2016
- REU Supplement for NSF CNS Award 1261828 CAREER: Control of Mobile Robot Networks: Integrating the Communication and Phy awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2016
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Conference Papers
  - Calkins, L, Khodayi-Mehr, R, Aquino, W, and Zavlanos, M. "Stochastic model-based source identification." January 18, 2018. Full Text
  - Guo, M, and Zavlanos, MM. "Temporal task planning in wirelessly connected environments with unknown channel quality." January 18, 2018. Full Text
  - Lee, S, Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "A distributed augmented Lagrangian method for model predictive control." January 18, 2018. Full Text
  - Guo, M, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed data gathering with buffer constraints and intermittent communication." July 21, 2017. Full Text
  - Ma, WJ, Dentcheva, D, and Zavlanos, MM. "Risk-averse sensor planning using distributed policy gradient." June 29, 2017. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Sampling-based control synthesis for multi-robot systems under global temporal specifications." April 18, 2017. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Lee, S, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed estimation and control for robotic sensor networks." December 27, 2016. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Simultaneous intermittent communication control and path optimization in networks of mobile robots." December 27, 2016. Full Text
  - Lee, S, Ribeiro, A, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed continuous-time online optimization using saddle-point methods." December 27, 2016. Full Text
  - Lee, S, and Zavlanos, MM. "Approximate projections for decentralized optimization with SDP constraints." December 27, 2016. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "A distributed LTL-based approach for intermittent communication in mobile robot networks." July 28, 2016. Full Text
  - Khodayi-Mehr, R, Aquino, W, and Zavlanos, MM. "Nonlinear reduced order source identification." July 28, 2016. Full Text
  - Lee, S, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed primal-dual methods for online constrained optimization." July 28, 2016. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Intermittent connectivity control in mobile robot networks." February 26, 2016. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Zavlanos, M, and Mordohai, P. "Exact bias correction and covariance estimation for stereo vision." October 14, 2015. Full Text
  - Khodayi-Mehr, R, Aquino, W, and Zavlanos, MM. "Model-based sparse source identification." July 28, 2015. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "On the convergence rate of a Distributed Augmented Lagrangian optimization algorithm." January 1, 2015. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Mordohai, P, and Zavlanos, MM. "Optimal path planning and resource allocation for active target localization." January 1, 2015. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, Zavlanos, MM, Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed simultaneous coverage and communication control by mobile sensor networksDistributed simultaneous coverage and communication control by mobile sensor networks (PublishedPublished)." February 5, 2014. Full Text
  - Aranda, M, López-Nicolás, G, Sagüés, C, and Zavlanos, MM. "Three-dimensional multirobot formation control for target enclosing." January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Communication-aware coverage control for robotic sensor networks." January 1, 2014. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Lee, S, Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "Complexity Certification of a Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Method." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 63, no. 3 (March 2018): 827-834. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Lee, S, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Active State Estimation With User-Specified Accuracy." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 63, no. 2 (February 2018): 418-433. Full Text
  - Guo, M, and Zavlanos, MM. "Probabilistic Motion Planning under Temporal Tasks and Soft Constraints." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control (2018): 1-1. Full Text
  - Guo, M, and Zavlanos, MM. "Multirobot Data Gathering Under Buffer Constraints and Intermittent Communication." Ieee Transactions on Robotics (2018): 1-16. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Sampling-Based Optimal Control Synthesis for Multi-Robot Systems under Global Temporal Tasks." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control (2018): 1-1. Full Text
  - Ma, W-J, Oh, C, Liu, Y, Dentcheva, D, and Zavlanos, MM. "Risk-Averse Access Point Selection in Wireless Communication Networks." Ieee Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2018): 1-1. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Zhang, Y, Zhu, AZ, Mordohai, P, and Zavlanos, MM. "Controlling a robotic stereo camera under image quantization noise." The International Journal of Robotics Research 36, no. 12 (October 2017): 1268-1285. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "On the Convergence of a Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Method for Nonconvex Optimization." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 62, no. 9 (September 2017): 4405-4420. Full Text
  - Preciado, VM, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Network Design for Laplacian Eigenvalue Placement." Ieee Transactions on Control of Network Systems 4, no. 3 (September 2017): 598-609. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Intermittent Connectivity Control of Mobile Robot Networks." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 62, no. 7 (July 2017): 3109-3121. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Zhang, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Hierarchical Control for State Estimation With Robotic Sensor Networks." Ieee Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2017): 1-1. Full Text
  - Lee, S, and Zavlanos, MM. "Approximate Projection Methods for Decentralized Optimization with Functional Constraints." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control (2017): 1-1. Full Text
  - Aranda, M, Lopez-Nicolas, G, Sagues, C, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Formation Stabilization Using Relative Position Measurements in Local Coordinates." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 61, no. 12 (December 2016): 3925-3935. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Scheduling of Network Connectivity Using Mobile Access Point Robots." Ieee Transactions on Robotics 32, no. 6 (December 2016): 1333-1346. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Global Planning for Multi-Robot Communication Networks in Complex Environments." Ieee Transactions on Robotics 32, no. 5 (October 2016): 1045-1061. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "A Distributed Algorithm for Convex Constrained Optimization Under Noise." Ieee Transactions on Automatic Control 61, no. 9 (September 2016): 2496-2511. Full Text
  - Kantaros, Y, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed communication-aware coverage control by mobile sensor networks." Automatica 63 (January 2016): 209-220. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, Dentcheva, D, and Zavlanos, MM. "An augmented Lagrangian method for distributed optimization." Mathematical Programming 152, no. 1-2 (August 2015): 405-434. Full Text
  - Aranda, M, López-Nicolás, G, Sagüés, C, and Zavlanos, MM. "Coordinate-free formation stabilization based on relative position measurements." Automatica 57 (July 2015): 11-20. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, Liu, Y, Petropulu, A, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed Cooperative Beamforming in Multi-Source Multi-Destination Clustered Systems." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 62, no. 23 (December 2014): 6105-6117. Full Text
  - Cappelleri, D, Efthymiou, D, Goswami, A, Vitoroulis, N, and Zavlanos, M. "Towards Mobile Microrobot Swarms for Additive Micromanufacturing." International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 11, no. 9 (September 24, 2014): 150-150. Full Text
  - Guo, M, Zavlanos, MM, and Dimarogonas, DV. "Controlling the Relative Agent Motion in Multi-Agent Formation Stabilization." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 59, no. 3 (March 2014): 820-826. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, and Zavlanos, MM. "Distributed stochastic multicommodity flow optimization." 2013 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2013 - Proceedings (December 1, 2013): 883-886. Full Text
  - Freundlich, C, Mordohai, P, and Zavlanos, MM. "A hybrid control approach to the Next-Best-View problem using stereo vision." Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (November 14, 2013): 4493-4498. Full Text
  - Kalogerias, DS, Chatzipanagiotis, N, Zavlanos, MM, and Petropulu, AP. "Mobile jammers for secrecy rate maximization in cooperative networks." Icassp, Ieee International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings (October 18, 2013): 2901-2905. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, Petropulu, A, and Zavlanos, MM. "A distributed algorithm for cooperative relay beamforming." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (September 11, 2013): 3796-3801.
  - Freundlich, C, Mordohai, P, and Zavlanos, MM. "Hybrid control for mobile target localization with stereo vision." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (January 1, 2013): 2635-2640. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Ribeiro, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Network integrity in mobile robotic networks." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58, no. 1 (2013): 3-18. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, Dentcheva, D, and Zavlanos, MM. "Approximate augmented lagrangians for distributed network optimization." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2012): 5840-5845. Full Text
  - Chatzipanagiotis, N, Liu, Y, Petropulu, A, and Zavlanos, MM. "Controlling groups of mobile beamformers." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2012): 1984-1989. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Egerstedt, MB, and Pappas, GJ. "Graph-theoretic connectivity control of mobile robot networks." Proceedings of the Ieee 99, no. 9 (September 2011): 1525-1540. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Julius, AA, Boyd, SP, and Pappas, GJ. "Inferring stable genetic networks from steady-state data." Automatica 47, no. 6 (2011): 1113-1122. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Preciado, VM, and Jadbabaie, A. "Spectral control of mobile robot networks." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2011): 3245-3250.
  - Zavlanos, MM, Ribeiro, A, and Pappas, GJ. "A framework for integrating mobility and routing in mobile communication networks." Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (2011): 1461-1465. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Ribeiro, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed control of mobility & routing in networks of robots." IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC (2011): 236-240. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Julius, AA. "Robust flux balance analysis of metabolic networks." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2011): 2915-2920.
  - Preciado, VM, Zavlanos, MM, Jadbabaie, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed control of the Laplacian spectral moments of a network." Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010 (2010): 4462-4467.
  - Zavlanos, MM, Ribeiro, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Mobility & routing control in networks of robots." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2010): 7545-7550. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM. "Synchronous rendezvous of very-low-range wireless agents." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2010): 4740-4745. Full Text
  - Julius, A, Zavlanos, M, Boyd, S, and Pappas, GJ. "Genetic network identification using convex programming." IET Syst Biol 3, no. 3 (May 2009): 155-166. Full Text Link to Item
  - Michael, N, Zavlanos, MM, Kumar, V, and Pappas, GJ. "Maintaining Connectivity in Mobile Robot Networks." Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 54 (2009): 117-126. Full Text
  - Ny, JL, Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Resource allocation for signal detection with active sensors." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2009): 8561-8566. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Koditschek, DE, and Pappas, GJ. "A distributed dynamical scheme for fastest mixing markov chains." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2009): 1436-1441. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Tanner, HG, Jadbabaie, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Hybrid control for connectivity preserving flocking." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 54, no. 12 (2009): 2869-2875. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Spesivtsev, L, and Pappas, GJ. "A distributed auction algorithm for the assignment problem." Proceedings of the Ieee Conference on Decision and Control (December 1, 2008): 1212-1217. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed Connectivity Control of Mobile Networks." Ieee Transactions on Robotics 24, no. 6 (December 2008): 1416-1428. Full Text
  - Michael, N, Zavlanos, MM, Kumar, V, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed multi-robot task assignment and formation control." Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2008): 128-133. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Julius, AA, Boyd, SP, and Pappas, GJ. "Identification of stable genetic networks using convex programming." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2008): 2755-2760. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Tahbaz-Salehi, A, Jadbabaie, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed topology control of dynamic networks." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2008): 2660-2665. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Dynamic assignment in distributed motion planning with local coordination." IEEE Transactions on Robotics 24, no. 1 (2008): 232-242. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "A dynamical systems approach to weighted graph matching." Automatica 44, no. 11 (2008): 2817-2824. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, Jadbabaie, A, and Pappas, GJ. "Flocking while preserving network connectivity." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2007): 2919-2924. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Potential fields for maintaining connectivity of mobile networks." IEEE Transactions on Robotics 23, no. 4 (2007): 812-816. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed formation control with permutation symmetries." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2007): 2894-2899. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed connectivity control of mobile networks." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2007): 3591-3596. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Dynamic assignment in distributed motion planning with limited information." Proceedings of the American Control Conference (2007): 1173-1178. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Distributed hybrid control for multiple-pursuer multiple-evader games." Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4416 LNCS (2007): 787-789.
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Sensor-based dynamic assignment in distributed motion planning." Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2007): 3333-3338. Full Text
  - Dimarogonas, DV, Loizou, SG, Kyriakopoulos, KJ, and Zavlanos, MM. "A feedback stabilization and collision avoidance scheme for multiple independent non-point agents." Automatica 42, no. 2 (February 2006): 229-243. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "A dynamical systems approach to weighted graph matching." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2006): 3492-3497.
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "Controlling connectivity of dynamic graphs." Proceedings of the 44th Ieee Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, Cdc Ecc '05 2005 (December 1, 2005): 6388-6393. Full Text
  - Dimarogonas, DV, Zavlanos, MM, Loizou, SG, and Kyriakopoulos, KJ. "Decentralized Motion Control of Multiple Holonomic Agents under Input Constraints." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 4 (2003): 3390-3395. Full Text
  - Zavlanos, MM, and Pappas, GJ. "A dynamical systems approach to weighted graph matching." Automatica . Full Text
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