Gerardo Lafferriere

Selected Publications

      1.      Lipschitz Properties of Nonsmooth Functions and Set-Valued Mappings via Generalized Differentiation and Applications, Nguyen Mau Nam, Gerardo Lafferriere, Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications (2013), Vol. 89, pp. 110-120.

      2.      An implementation of reinforcement learning based on spike-timing dependent plasticity, P.D. Roberts, R. Santiago, G. Lafferriere, Biological Cybernetics, (2008), Vol 99, 6, pp. 517-523.

      3.      Control of Formations under Persistent Disturbances, G. Lafferriere, K. Mathia, Proc. of the American Control Conference, (2008) pp. 795-800.

      4.      Stable Feedback Models for Electrosensory Filtering in Mormyrid Fish, G. Lafferriere, P.D. Roberts, Proc. of the 46th Conf. on Decision and Control (2007), pp 609-614.

      5.      Dynamic Regulation of Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity in Electrosensory Processing, P. D. Roberts, G. Lafferriere, N. Sawtell, A. Williams, C.C. Bell) Neurocomputing, Vol. 69, pp. 1195-1198, (2006).

      6.      Flocks and Formations, J.J.P. Veerman, G. Lafferriere, J. Caughman, A. Williams J. Stat.Phys. 121, Vol 5-6, pp. 901-936, (2005).

      7.      Stable Motions of Vehicle Formations, A. Williams, G. Lafferriere, J.J.P. Veerman Proc of the 44th Conf. on Decision and Control, pp. 72-77, 12-15 Dec. 2005.

      8.      Decentralized Control of Vehicle Formations, G. Lafferriere, A. Williams, J. Caughman, J.J.P. Veerman, Systems & Control Letters, (2005) Vol. 54, pp. 899-910.

      9.      Graph theoretic methods in the stability of vehicle formations, G. Lafferriere, J. Caughman, A. Williams, Proc. of the 2004 American Control Conf., pp. 3724-3729.

   10.      Symbolic Reachability Computation for Families of Linear Vector Fields, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas, S. Yovine, J. Symbolic Computation (2001) vol. 32, pp 231-253.

   11.      Discrete Abstractions of Hybrid Systems, R. Alur, T. Henzinger, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas, Proceedings of the IEEE. (2000) vol. 88, no. 7, pp 971-984.

   12.      Hierarchically Consistent Control Systems, G.J. Pappas, G. Lafferriere, S. Sastry.  IEEE Transactions in Automatic Control. (2000) vol. 45, no. 6, pp 1144-1160.

   13.      Uniform Reachability Algorithms, G. Lafferriere, C. Miller, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, (2000) B. Krogh and N. Lynch (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 1790, pp 215-228.

   14.      O-mininal Hybrid Systems, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas and S. Sastry.  Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, (2000) vol. 13, pp 1-21.

   15.       New Class of Decidable Hybrid Systems, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas and S. Yovine.  In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, (1999) T. Henzinger and S. Sastry (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 1569, pp 137-151.

   16.      Reachability Computation for Linear Hybrid Systems, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas, S. Yovine.  In Proceedings of the 14th IFAC World Congress, Vol. E, pp 7-12, Beijing, P.R. China, 1999.

   17.      Hybrid Systems with Finite Bisimulations, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas and S. Sastry.  In Hybrid Systems V, P. Antsaklis, W. Kohn, M. Lemmon, A. Nerode and S. Sastry (Eds), (1999) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 1567, pp 186-203.

   18.      Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems Using Bisimulations, G. Lafferriere, G.J. Pappas and S. Sastry.  In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 1623-1628, 1998.

   19.      A computational method for simulation of trunk motion: towards a theoretical based quantitative assessment of trunk performance, Parnianpour M, Wang JL, Shirazi-Adl A, Khayatian B, G. Lafferriere, Biomedical Engineering, Applications, Basis & Communications, 1997, 11(1): 27-38. (EI)

   20.      A Computational Method for Simulation of Trunk Motion, M. Parnianpour, A. Shirazi-Adl, J.L. Wang, B. Khayatian, G. Lafferriere,.Vol. 77, Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, vol. 5. ASME, 1996, pp 69-76.

   21.      Discontinuous Stabilizing Feedback Using Partially Defined Lyapunov Functions, G. Lafferriere, Proc. 33rd CDC, pp 3487{3491, Orlando, Florida, 1994.

   22.      Remarks on Control Lyapunov Functions for Discontinuous Stabilizing Feedback, G. Lafferriere, E.D. Sontag. In Proc. 32nd CDC, pp 306-308, San Antonio, Texas, 1993.

   23.      A Differential Geometric Approach to Motion Planning, G. Lafferriere, H. Sussmann. In Nonholonomic Motion Planning, pp 235-270, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1993.

   24.      A General Strategy for Computing Steering Controls of Systems without Drift, G. Lafferriere, Proc. of the 1991 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 1115-1120, Brighton, England.

   25.      Motion Planning for Controllable Systems without Drift, G. Lafferriere, H. Sussmann. Proc. of the 1991 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 1148-1153, Sacramento, CA.

   26.      Minimum Jerk and Near Energy Optimal Trajectories of Saggital Trunk Movement, Parnianpour M, Wang JL, Shirazi-Adl A, Khayatian B, G. Lafferriere, 1990 Advances in Bioengineering, pp 159-162, S.A.Goldstein, Ed. ASME, Nov, 1990.

   27.      Energy Optimal Trajectory During Unidirectional Trunk Flexion and Extension, Parnianpour M, Wang JL, Shirazi-Adl A, Khayatian B, G. Lafferriere, Proc. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, Miami, FL, 1990.

   28.      Multifinger Grasps for Fine Manipulation of Smooth Objects, G. Lafferriere, J. Hong, B. Mishra, and X.Tan Proc. 1990 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1568-1573, May 1990.

   29.      Optimal Three Finger Grasps, J. Demmel, G. Lafferriere, Proc. of IEEE 1989 Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp 936-942, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 1989.

   30.      Theoretical and Experimental Studies Using a Multifinger Manipulator, James Demmel, G. Lafferriere, Jacob Schwartz and Micha Sharir, Proc. 1988 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Vol 1, pp. 390-395, April 1988.