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Paulo Tabuada
 Assistant Professor


 Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 University of California at Los Angeles




 Preprints
  Books
Journals

  Book Chapters
  Recent Conferences
  Miscellaneous

 
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 Preprints:

   On the benefits of relaxing the periodicity assumption for networked control systems over CAN
   A. Anta and P. Tabuada
   Submitted for publication
   PDF file

   On Self-Triggered Control for Linear Systems: Guarantees and Complexity
   Manuel Mazo Jr., Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
   To appear in European Control Conference, August 2009.

  
Symbolic models for nonlinear time-delay systems using approximate bisimulations
   Giordano Pola, Pierdomenico Pepe, Maria D. Di Benedetto and Paulo Tabuada
   Submitted for publication.
   arXiv:0903.0361

   Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for incrementally stable switched systems
   Antoine Girard, Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
   To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
   arXiv:0807.5022

   To sample or not to sample: Self-triggered control for nonlinear systems
   Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
   Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
   arXiv:0806.0709


 Books:


   Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems: A Symbolic Approach
   Paulo Tabuada
   Springer, 2009.
   Available online through SpringerLink.
   Front Matter






   Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'09)
   Rupak Majumdar and Paulo Tabuada, (Eds.)
   Volume 5469 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
   Springer, 2009.








   Networked Embedded Sensing and Control
   Panos J. Antsaklis and Paulo Tabuada, (Eds.)
   Volume 331 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
   Springer, 2006.




Journals:
 
 




   Symbolic models for nonlinear control systems: Alternating approximate bisimulations
   Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
   SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, 48(2), 719-733, 2009.
   DOI:10.1137/070698580
   arXiv:0707.4205

   Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for nonlinear control systems
   Giordano Pola, Antoine Girard and Paulo Tabuada
   Automatica, 44(10), 2508-2516, October 2008.
   DOI:10.1016/j.automatica.2008.02.021
   arXiv:0706.0246

   An approximate simulation approach to symbolic control
   Paulo Tabuada
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 53(6), 1406-1418, July 2008.
   DOI:10.1109/TAC.2008.925824
   PDF file

   Approximate reduction of dynamical systems
   Paulo Tabuada, Aaron D. Ames, Agung Julius and George J. Pappas
   Systems and Control Letters, 57(7), 538-545, July 2008.
   DOI:10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.12.005
   arXiv:0707.3804

   Controller synthesis for bisimulation equivalence
   Paulo Tabuada
   Systems and Control Letters, 57(6), 443-452, June 2008.
   DOI:10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.11.005
   arXiv:0706.0929

   Event-triggered real-time scheduling of stabilizing control tasks
   Paulo Tabuada
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(9), 1680-1685, September 2007.
   PDF file 

   Symbolic models for control systems
   Paulo Tabuada
   Acta Informatica, 43(7), 477-500, February 2007.
   Special issue on Hybrid Systems.
   PDF file

   Linear Time Logic control of discrete-time linear systems
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(12), 1862-1877, December 2006.
   PDF file


   Local factorization of trajectory lifting morphisms for single-input affine control systems
   Paulo Tabuada
   Systems and Control Letters, 55(9), 761-769, September 2006.
   PDF file

   Symbolic control of linear systems based on symbolic subsystems
   Paulo Tabuada
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(6), 1003-1013, June 2006.
   Special issue on Symbolic Methods for Complex Control Systems.
   PDF file

   Bisimulation relations for dynamical, control and hybrid systems
   Esfandiar Haghverdi, Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
   Theoretical Computer Science, 342(2-3), 229-261, 2005.
   PDF file

   Motion Feasibility of Multi-Agent Formations
   Paulo Tabuada, Pedro Lima and George J. Pappas.
   IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 21(3), 387-392, 2005.
   PDF file

   Quotients of Fully Nonlinear Control Systems
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas.
   SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 43(5), 1844-1866, 2005.
   PDF file

   Hierarchical trajectory generation for a class of nonlinear systems
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
   Automatica, 41(4), 701-708, April 2005.
   PDF file, Corrigendum

   Bisimilar Control Affine Systems
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas.
   Systems and Control Letters, 52(1), 49-58, May 2004.
   PDF file

   Compositional Abstractions of Hybrid Control Systems
   Paulo Tabuada, George J. Pappas and Pedro Lima.
   Journal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems, 14(2), 203-238, April 2004.
   PDF file

   Abstractions of Hamiltonian Control Systems
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas.
   Automatica, 39(12), 2025-2033, December 2003.
   PDF file

   From Nonlinear to Hamiltonian via Feedback
   Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas.
   IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48(8), 1439-1442, August 2003.
   PDF file








 

Book Chapters: 


   Approximately bisimilar symbolic models for incrementally stable switched systems  
   Antoine Girard, Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada  
   Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2008  
Volume 4981 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  

Approximate simulation relations and finite abstractions of quantized control systems  
   Paulo Tabuada  
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control  
Volume 4416 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Springer, April 2007  

PDF file  

  
On simulations and bisimulations of general flow systems  
   Jennifer Davoren and Paulo Tabuada  
   Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control  
Volume 4416 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Springer, April 2007  

  
   On the stability of Zeno equilibria  
Aaron Ames, Paulo Tabuada and Shankar Sastry  
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
  
Volume 3927 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Springer, March 2006  
PDF file  

Sensor/actuator abstractions for symbolic embedded control design  
Paulo Tabuada  
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
  
Volume 3414 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Springer, March 2005  
PDF file  

Open maps, alternating simulations and control synthesis
  
Paulo Tabuada
  
15th International Conference on Concurrency Theory  
Volume 3170 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
 Springer, September 2004  
PDF file  

Model Checking LTL over Controllable Linear Systems is Decidable
  
Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
  
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control  
Volume 2623 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  

  
Springer-Verlag, April 2003  
PDF file  

Bisimulation Relations for Dynamical and Control Systems
  
Esfandiar Haghverdi, Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
 
Rick Blute and Peter Selinger eds.  
 Volume 69 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier  
   PDF file  
  
Composing Abstractions of Hybrid Systems  
Paulo Tabuada, George J. Pappas and Pedro Lima
 
Hybrid Systems: Computaion and Control  
Volume 2289 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
  
Springer-Verlag, March 2002  
PDF file  

Hybrid abstractions that preserve timed languages  
Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas  
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control  
Volume 2034 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, March 2001  
PDF file  

Satellite Attitude Control Problem  
R. Wisniewski, A. Astolfi, T. Bak, M. Blanke, P. Lima, K. Spindler, P. Tabuada and P. Tavares  
Chapter in Control of Complex Systems (COSY), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000  




 Recent Conferences:

   On event-triggered and self-triggered control over sensor/actuator networks
   Manuel Mazo Jr. and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 47th Conference on Decision and Control, 2008.
   PDF file

   Space-time scaling laws for self-triggered control
   Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 47th Conference on Decision and Control, 2008.
   PDF file

   Symbolic models for nonlinear control systems affected by disturbances
   Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 47th Conference on Decision and Control, 2008.
   PDF file

   Self-triggered stabilization of homogeneous control systems
   Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, 2008.
   PDF file

   On the benefits of relaxing the periodicity assumption for control tasks
   Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium. Work in progress track, 2008.
   PDF file

  
Symbolic models for nonlinear control systems using approximate bisimulations
   Giordano Pola, Antoine Girard and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007.
   PDF file

   Symbolic models for linear control systems with disturbances
   Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
   Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007.
   PDF file

   Approximate reduction of dynamical systems
   Paulo Tabuada, Aaron Ames, Agung Julius and George Pappas
   Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006.
   PDF file

   Preliminary results on state-triggered scheduling of stabilizing control tasks
   Paulo Tabuada and Xiaofeng Wang
   Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006.
   PDF file

   Symbolic sub-systems and symbolic control of linear systems
   Paulo Tabuada.
   Proceeding of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005.
   PDF file

   On the factorization of trajectory lifting maps
   Paulo Tabuada.
   Proceeding of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005.
   PDF file



 
 Miscellaneous:

   Review of "Feedback Control of Computing Systems" by J.L. Hellerstein, Y. Diao, S. Parekh and D.M. Tilbury
   Paulo Tabuada
   IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 27(2), 89-91, April 2007.
   PDF file


   Review of "Control Theory from the Geometric Viewpoint" by A. Agrachev and Y. Sachkov
   Paulo Tabuada
   Automatica, 42(4), 695-696, April 2006.
   PDF file

   H-Categories and Graphs
   Aaron D. Ames and Paulo Tabuada
   PDF file