John Baillieul

John Baillieul is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and co-founder of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Systems Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering.

His research deals with robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. He has done research and written about (1) the connections between optimal control theory and what has recently been called “sub-Riemannian geometry,” (2) problems in the control of nonlinear systems modeled by homogeneous polynomial differential equations, (3) the control theory of rotating elastic systems, (4) motion planning and control of kinematically redundant manipulators, and (5) he has become interested in problems associated with anholonomy in planning motions for robots which have elastic joints and other components which store energy.

Professor Baillieul is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the International Federation of Automatic Control and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  He is past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.