ROGER W. BROCKETT (brockett@isr.umd.edu)

Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Roger Brockett received his B.S. in 1960 from the Case Institute of Technology. There he was awarded an M.S. degree in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1964. From 1963 to 1967 Dr. Brockett was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Associate Professor in the same department from 1967 to 1969. From there he became a Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, and was named to the An Wang Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1989. He has held a variety of consulting positions from 1965 to the present, including work at Lincoln Laboratory, Martin Marietta Company, U.S. Army Material Command, Scientific Systems, Inc., U.S. Army Night Vision Laboratory and General Electric Corporate Research Labs.

Dr. Brockett is a member of the National Academy of Engineers, a fellow of the IEEE, and member of the AMS, SIAM, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. He has been a member of the IEEE Control Society Advisory Committee (1972-1975), Automatic Control Group's Information Dissemination Committee (1966-1969), and Program Chairman for the Joint Automatic Control Conference (1971).

He has held a Guggenheim fellowship for the study of mathematical system theory, was awarded the American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1989 and the IEEE Field award in Systems Science and Engineering in 1991.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Brockett's research interests are in system theory, robotics and computer vision.

PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH

1. R. W. Brockett, "Hybrid Models for Motion Control Systems," in Perspectives in Control, (H. Trentelman and J. C. Willems, Eds), Birkh, Boston, 1993, pp. 29-54.

2. R. W. Brockett, "Smooth Dynamical Systems Which Realize Arithmetical and Logical Operations," in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Three Decades of Mathematical Systems Theory. (H. Nijmeijer and J.M. Schumacher, Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989, pp. 19-30.

3. R. W. Brockett, "Language Driven Hybrid Systems," Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December, 1994.

4. R. W. Brockett and Andrew Blake "Estimating the Shape of a Moving Contour,"Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December, 1994.

5. R. W. Brockett, Dynamical Systems and Their Associated Automata" in Systems and Networks: Mathematical Theory and Applications, (U. Helmke, et al. Eds.) Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1994.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH

1. R. W. Brockett, "Dynamical Systems That Sort Lists, Diagonalize Matrices and Solve Linear Programming Problems," Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 146, 1991, pp. 79-91.

2. R. W. Brockett, "Dynamical Systems That Learn Subspaces," in Mathematical System Theory: The Influence of R.E. Kalman, (A.C. Antoulas, Ed.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, pp. 579-592.

3. R. W. Brockett, "An Estimation Theoretic Basis for the Design of Sorting and Classification Networks," in Neural Networks, (R. Mammone and Y. Zeevi, Eds) Academic Press, 1991, pp. 23-41.

4. R. W. Brockett and A. Stokes, "On the Synthesis of Compliant Mechanisms," Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, New York, 1991.

5. R. W. Brockett and P. Maragos, "Evolution Equations for Continuous Scale Morphology," IEEE transactions on Signal Processing Vol. 42, (1994) pp. 3377-3386.