Jorge Cortés

Associate Professor



  1. When does a digraph admit a doubly stochastic adjacency matrix?
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, submitted

  2. Spatial statistics and distributed estimation by robotic sensor networks
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, submitted

  3. Distributed strategies for making a digraph weight-balanced
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2009

  4. Spatial detection of areas of abrupt change by robotic networks
    H. Gao, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, California, 2009, DSCC2009-2760

  5. Cooperative adaptive sampling via approximate entropy maximization
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009, to appear

  6. Motion control strategies for improved multi robot perception
    R. Aragüés, J. Cortés, and C. Sagüés
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MI, October 2009, pp. 1065-1070

  7. Distributed sampling of random fields with unknown covariance
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2009, pp. 4543-4548

  8. Global formation-shape stabilization of relative sensing networks
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2009, pp. 1460-1465

  9. Distributed map merging in a robotic network
    R. Aragüés, J. Cortés, and C. Sagüés
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, 2008, Workshop on Network Robot Systems: human concepts of space and activity, integration, and applications, pp. 104-110

  10. Distributed motion constraints for algebraic connectivity of robotic networks
    M. Schuresko, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2008, pp. 5482-5487

  11. A cooperative deployment strategy for optimal sampling in spatiotemporal estimation
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2008, pp. 2432-2437

  12. Area-constrained coverage optimization by robotic sensor networks
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2008, pp. 1018-1023

  13. Coverage control by robotic networks with limited-range anisotropic sensory
    K. Laventall, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2008, pp. 2666-2671

    14. Asymptotic optimality of multicenter Voronoi configurations for random field estimation
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2007, pp. 3127-3132
    Safe graph rearrangements for distributed connectivity of robotic networks
    M. Schuresko, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2007, pp. 4602-4607
  14. Distributed gradient ascent of random fields by robotic sensor networks
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2007, pp. 3120-3126

  15. Exploring landmark placement strategies for self-localization in wireless sensor networks
    F. Benbadis, K. Obraczka, J. Cortés, A. Brandwajn
    18th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, 2007, electronic proceedings

  16. Visibility-based multi-agent deployment in orthogonal environments
    A. Ganguli, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, USA, 2007, pp. 3426-3431

  17. Correctness analysis and optimality bounds of multi-spacecraft formation initialization algorithms
    M. Schuresko, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 5974-5979

  18. Analysis and design of distributed algorithms for chi-consensus
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 3363-3368

  19. Notes on averaging over acyclic digraphs and discrete coverage control
    C. Gao, F. Bullo, J. Cortés, A. Jadbabaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 4651-4656

  20. A crash course in feedback control - a MATLAB-based introduction with one prerequisite: high school algebra
    W. B. Dunbar, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, USA, 2006, pp. 3900-3905

  21. Characterizing robust coordination algorithms via proximity graphs and set-valued maps
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2006, pp. 8-13

  22. Distributed deployment of asynchronous guards in art galleries
    A. Ganguli, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2006, pp. 1416-1421

  23. On collective motion in sensor networks: sample problems and distributed algorithms
    A. Ganguli, S. Susca, S. Martínez, F. Bullo, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 4239-4244

  24. Achieving coordination tasks in finite time via nonsmooth gradient flows
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 6376-6381

  25. On synchronous robotic networks - Part II: Time complexity of rendezvous and deployment algorithms
    S. Martínez, F. Bullo, J. Cortés, E. Frazzoli
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 8313-8318

  26. On synchronous robotic networks - Part I: Models, tasks and complexity notions
    S. Martínez, F. Bullo, J. Cortés, E. Frazzoli
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 2847-2852

  27. Coordinated rendezvous for visually-guided agents in a nonconvex polygon
    A. Ganguli, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 5686-5691

  28. On robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents
    S. Martínez, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    IFAC World Congress, Praga, Czech Republic, 2005, electronic proceedings

  29. Maximizing visibility in nonconvex polygons: nonsmooth analysis and gradient algorithm design
    A. Ganguli, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005, pp. 792-797

  30. Analysis and design tools for distributed motion coordination
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005, pp. 1680-1685

  31. Coordinated deployment of mobile sensing networks with limited-range interactions
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2004, pp. 1944-1949

  32. Nonsmooth analysis and sonar-based implementation of distributed coordination algorithms
    C. Robinson, D. Block, S. Brennan, F. Bullo, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2004, pp. 3000-3005

  33. A catalog of inverse-kinematic planners for underactuated systems on matrix Lie groups
    S. Martínez, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2003, pp. 625-630

  34. From geometric optimization and nonsmooth analysis to distributed coordination algorithms
    J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2003, pp. 3274-3280

  35. Gradient realization of nonlinear control systems
    J. Cortés, A.J. van der Schaft, P.E. Crouch
    IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Seville, Spain, 2003, pp. 73-78

  36. Design of oscillatory control systems
    S. Martínez, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2002, pp. 1509-1514

  37. Vector-valued quadratic forms in control theory
    F. Bullo, J. Cortés, A.D. Lewis, S. Martinez
    Workshop on Open Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, August 12-16, 2002, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

  38. Coverage control for mobile sensing networks: variations on a theme
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, T. Karatas, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2002

  39. Geometric control of robotic locomotion systems
    S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the X Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics, Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, 2001, Publicaciones de la RSME, vol. 4 (2003), pp. 183-198

  40. Controllability of mechanical systems with constraints and symmetries
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, J.P. Ostrowski, H. Zhang
    15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, South Bend, Indiana, USA, 2002, electronic proceedings

  41. Coverage control for mobile sensing networks
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, T. Karatas, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2002, pp. 1327-1332

  42. Analysis of oscillatory control systems
    S. Martínez, J. Cortés, F. Bullo
    IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2002, electronic proceedings

  43. On nonlinear controllability and series expansions for Lagrangian systems with damping
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez, F. Bullo
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2001, pp. 2619-2624

  44. Non-constant rank constraints
    J. Cortés, M. de León, D. Martín de Diego, S. Martínez
    Actas del VII Encuentro de Otoño de Geometría y Física, Medina del Campo, Spain, 1999, Publicaciones de la RSME, vol. 2 (2001), pp. 41-54

  45. Optimal control for nonholonomic systems with symmetry
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, 2000, pp. 5216-5218

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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