Jorge Cortés

Professor

Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair



  1. Safe event-triggered learning for sampled-data systems
    A. Begzadić, A. Lederer, S. Hirche, J. Cortés, S. L. Herbert
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2026, submitted

  2. Generalized multi-constraint extremum seeking
    A. Williams, J. Cortés, A. Scheinker
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2026, submitted

  3. Reachability analysis for design optimization
    S. Nguyen, J. Cortés, B. Kramer
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2026, submitted

  4. Reservoir computing with hybrid systems: establishing the echo state property
    M. McCreesh, A. Marzabal, A. Ganlath, R. Gupta, J. Sanchez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2026, submitted

  5. Constrained variational inference via safe particle flow
    Y. Yi, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2026, submitted

  6. Certifying stability of reinforcement learning policies using generalized Lyapunov functions
    K. Long, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, eds. N. Chen, M. Ghassemi, P. Koniusz, R. Pascanu, H.-T. Lin, vol. 38, Curran Associates, 2025

  7. Koopman operator extensions for control: bridging infinite input sequences and operator families
    M. Haseli, I. Mezić, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 1741-1746

  8. Feedback optimization with state constraints through control barrier functions
    G. Delimpaltadakis, P. Mestres, J. Cortés, W. P. M. H. Heemels
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 7234-7239

  9. Learning high-order CBFs using Gaussian processes for systems in Brunovsky canonical form
    A. Begzadić, A. Lederer, J. Cortés, S. L. Herbert
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 2945-2950

  10. Data-enabled predictive control for nonlinear systems based on a Koopman bilinear realization
    Z. Xiong, Z. Yuan, K. Miao, H. Wang, J. Cortés, A. Papachristodoulou
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 6498-6503

  11. Controller design for bilinear neural feedback loops
    D. Shah, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025

  12. Safe control of second-order systems with linear positional constraints
    M. Alyaseen, N. Atanasov, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025

  13. From space to time: enabling adaptive safety with learned value functions via disturbance recasting
    S. Tonkens, N. U. Shinde, A. Begzadić, M. C. Yip, J. Cortés, S. L. Herbert
    Conference on Robot Learning, Seoul, Korea, 2025, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 305, pp. 4103-4122

  14. Willems' fundamental lemma for nonlinear systems with Koopman linear embedding
    X. Shang, J. Cortés, Y. Zheng
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2025

  15. Back to base: towards hands-off learning via safe resets with reach-avoid safety filters
    A. Begzadić, N. U. Shinde, S. Tonkens, D. Hirsch, K. Ugalde, M. C. Yip, J. Cortés, S. L. Herbert
    Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2025, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 283, pp. 1154-1166

  16. Anytime safe reinforcement learning
    P. Mestres, A. Marzabal, J. Cortés
    Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2025, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 283, pp. 221-232

  17. Feedback-based safe gradient flow for optimal regulation of virtual power plants
    A. Colot, B. Cornélusse, J. Cortés, E. Dall'Anese
    Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion, Athens, Greece, 2024

  18. Stabilization of nonlinear systems through control barrier functions
    P. Mestres, K. Long, M. Leok, N. Atanasov, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 2024, pp. 8858-8863

  19. Characterization of the dynamical properties of safety filters for linear planar systems
    Y. Chen, P. Mestres, E. Dall'Anese, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 2024, pp. 2397-2402

  20. Designing Poisson integrators through machine learning
    M. Vaquero, D. Martín de Diego, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Besancon, France, 2024, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 58, issue 6, pp. 31-35

  21. Performace-barrier-based event-triggered boundary control of a class of reaction-diffusion PDEs
    B. Rathnayake, M. Diagne, J. Cortés, M. Krstic
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024, pp. 5298-5304

  22. Online regulation of dynamical systems to solutions of constrained optimization problems
    Y. Chen, L. Cothren, J. Cortés, E. Dall'Anese
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024

  23. Learning decentralized frequency controllers for energy storage systems
    Z. Sun, Z. Yuan, C. Zhao, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024

  24. Integrated realtime simulation of voltage regulation algorithms in a microgrid with DERs: Leveraging the DERConnect testbed
    S. A. Sadat, B. Hwang, K. Murakami, J. Kleissl, J. Cortés, A. Khurram
    Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2024

  25. Distributed and anytime algorithm for network optimization problems with separable structure
    P. Mestres, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 5457-5462

  26. Data-driven distributionally robust coverage control by mobile robots
    D. Boskos, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 2030-2035

  27. Set-valued regression and cautious suboptimization: from noisy data to optimality
    J. Eising, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 5319-5324

  28. Bridging transient and steady-state performance in voltage control: a reinforcement learning approach with safe gradient flow
    J. Feng, W. Cui, J. Cortés, Y. Shi
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 5556-5561

  29. Constraints on OPF surrogates for learning stable local Volt/Var controllers
    Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023, pp. 5574-5579

  30. Distributionally robust Lyapunov function search under uncertainty
    K. Long, Y. Yi, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2023, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 211, pp. 864-877

  31. Equilibria of fully decentralized learning in networked systems
    Y. Jiang, W. Cui, B. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2023, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 211, pp. 333-345

  32. Safe and stable control synthesis for uncertain system models via distributionally robust optimization
    K. Long, Y. Yi, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, 2023, pp. 4651-4658

  33. Gramian-based characterization of network vulnerability to nodal impulse inputs
    P. V. Chanekar, B. K. Poolla, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, 2023, pp. 4507-4512

  34. Temporal forward-backward consistency, not residual error, measures the prediction accuracy of extended dynamic mode decomposition
    M. Haseli, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, 2023

  35. Safety-critical control as a design paradigm of anytime solvers of variational inequalities
    A. Allibhoy, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 6211-6216

  36. Using data informativity for online stabilization of unknown switched linear systems
    J. Eising, S. Liu, S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 8-13

  37. Distributionally robust optimization via Haar wavelet ambiguity sets
    D. Boskos, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 4782-4787

  38. Learning local volt/var controllers towards efficient network operation with stability guarantees
    G. Cavraro, Z. Yuan, M. K. Singh, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 5056-5061

  39. Control strategies for neural populations with rectified activation function
    T. Menara, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022, pp. 649-654

  40. Optimization-based safe stabilizing feedback with guaranteed region of attraction
    P. Mestres, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022

  41. Learning constant-gain stabilizing controllers for frequency regulation under variable inertia
    P. Srivastava, P. Hidalgo-Gonzalez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2022

  42. DERConnect -- A distributed energy resources testbed for solar power integration
    J. Kleissl, A. Khurram, K. Chia, S. Brown, A. Mishra, J. Cortés, R. de Callafon, R. Gupta, S. Martínez, D. Victor
    Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2022, pp. 587-589

  43. Safe control synthesis with uncertain dynamics and constraints
    K. Long, V. Dhiman, M. Leok, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Kyoto, Japan

  44. Informativity for centralized design of distributed controllers for networked systems
    J. Eising, J. Cortés
    European Control Conference, London, UK, 2022, pp. 681-686

  45. Safe policy design for controlling epidemic spreading under heterogeneous testing capabilities
    P. Mestres, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2022, pp. 697-702

  46. Data-driven control of linear-threshold network dynamics
    X. Wang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2022, pp. 114-119

  47. Agent-supervisor coordination for decentralized event-triggered optimization
    P. Srivastava, G. Cavraro, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2022, pp. 1739-1744

  48. Network connectivity maintenance via nonsmooth control barrier functions
    P. Ong, B. Capelli, L. Sabattini, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021, pp. 4780-4785

  49. Data-driven reconstruction of firing rate dynamics in brain networks
    X. Wang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021, pp. 6456-6461

  50. Anytime solution of constrained nonlinear programs via control barrier functions
    A. Allibhoy, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021, pp. 6520-6525

  51. Data-driven synthesis of optimization-based controllers for regulation of unknown linear systems
    G. Bianchin, M. Vaquero, J. Cortés, E. Dall'Anese
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021, pp. 5776-5781

  52. Solving linear equations with separable problem data over directed networks
    P. Srivastava, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021

  53. Optimization of average dwell-time lower bound for switched systems via sequential convex programming
    S. Liu, S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, 2021

  54. Learning barrier functions with memory for robust safe navigation
    K. Long, C. Qian, J. Cortés, N. Atanasov
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi'an, China, 2021

  55. Data-driven approximation of Koopman-invariant subspaces with tunable accuracy
    M. Haseli, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2021, pp. 469-474

    *2021 ACC Best Student Paper Award*

  56. Linear-threshold dynamics for the study of epileptic events
    F. Celi, A. Allibhoy, F. Pasqualetti, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2021

  57. Safety-critical event triggered control via input-to-state safe barrier functions
    A. J. Taylor, P. Ong, J. Cortés, A. Ames
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, South Korea, 2020

  58. Nesterov acceleration for equality-constrained convex optimization via continuously differentiable penalty functions
    P. Srivastava, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, South Korea, 2020

  59. Data-driven distributed predictive control via network optimization
    A. Allibhoy, J. Cortés
    Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, Berkeley, California, 2020, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 120, pp. 838-839

  60. Edge centrality matrix: impact of network modification on Gramian controllability metrics
    P. V. Chanekar, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2020, pp. 3313-3318

  61. Data-driven ambiguity sets for linear systems under disturbances and noisy observations
    D. Boskos, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2020, pp. 4491-4496

  62. Fast identification of Koopman-invariant subspaces: parallel symmetric subspace decomposition
    M. Haseli, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2020, pp. 4545-4550

  63. Convergence-rate-matching discretization of accelerated optimization flows through opportunistic state-triggered control
    M. Vaquero, J. Cortés
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, eds. H. Wallach, H. Larochelle, A. Beygelzimer, F. d'Alché-Buc, E. Fox, R. Garnett, vol. 32, Curran Associates, 2019, pp. 9767-9776

  64. Network modification using a novel Gramian-based edge centrality
    P. V. Chanekar, E. Nozari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019, pp. 1686-1691

  65. Universal formula for smooth safe stabilization
    P. Ong, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019, pp. 2373-2378

  66. Efficient identification of linear evolutions in nonlinear vector fields: Koopman invariant subspaces
    M. Haseli, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019, pp. 1746-1751

  67. Saddle-flow dynamics for distributed feedback-based optimization
    C.-Y. Chang, M. Colombino, J. Cortés, E. Dall'Anese
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019, pp. 575-580

  68. Dynamic evolution of distributional ambiguity sets and precision tradeoffs in data assimilation
    D. Boskos, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Naples, Italy, 2019, pp. 2252-2257

  69. Double-layered distributed transient frequency control with regional coordination
    Y. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019, pp. 658-663

  70. Approximating the Koopman operator using noisy data: noise-resilient extended dynamic mode decomposition
    M. Haseli, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019, pp. 5499-5504

  71. Oscillations and coupling in interconnections of two-dimensional brain networks
    E. Nozari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019, pp. 193-198

  72. Co-optimization of control and actuator selection for cyber-physical systems
    C.-Y. Chang, S Martínez, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2018, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 51, issue 23, pp. 118-123

  73. Distributed augmentation-regularization for robust online convex optimization
    M. Vaquero, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2018, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 51, issue 23, pp. 230-235

  74. Event-triggered control design with performance barrier
    P. Ong, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 951-956

  75. Distributed algorithm via continuously differentiable exact penalty method for network optimization
    P. Srivastava, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 975-980

  76. Event-triggering stabilization of real and complex linear systems with disturbances over digital channels
    M. J. Khojasteh, M. Hedayatpour, J. Cortés, M. Franceschetti
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 152-157

  77. Selective recruitment in hierarchical complex dynamical networks with linear-threshold rate dynamics
    E. Nozari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 5227-5232

    *2018 CDC Best Student Paper Award*

  78. Transient frequency control with regional cooperation for power networks
    Y. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 2587-2592

  79. Distributed transient frequency control in power networks
    Y. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, 2018, pp. 4595-4600

  80. Boolean composability of constraints and control synthesis for multi-robot systems via nonsmooth control barrier functions
    P. Glotfelter, J. Cortés, M. Egerstedt
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018, pp. 897-902

  81. Event-triggered stabilization of disturbed linear systems over digital channels
    M. J. Khojasteh, M. Hedayatpour, J. Cortés, M. Franceschetti
    Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 2018, electronic proceedings

  82. Underwater coverage with a mobile robot of limited control authority
    E. Aranda-Escolástico, J. Cortés, M. Guinaldo, S. Dormido
    Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018, pp. 1088-1093

  83. Stable interconnection of continuous-time price-bidding mechanisms with power network dynamics
    T. Stegink, A. Cherukuri, C. De Persis, A. J. van der Schaft, J. Cortés
    Power Systems Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2018, electronic proceedings

  84. Receding-horizon multi-objective optimization for disaster response
    K. Lee, S. Martínez, J. Cortés, R. H. Chen, M. B. Milam
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2018, pp. 5304-5309

  85. Participation of microgrids in frequency regulation markets
    P. Srivastava, C.-Y. Chang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2018, pp. 3834-3839

  86. Integrating iterative bidding in electricity markets and frequency regulation
    T. Stegink, A. Cherukuri, C. De Persis, A. J. van der Schaft, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2018, pp. 6182-6187

  87. Stability analysis of complex networks with linear-threshold rate dynamics
    E. Nozari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2018, pp. 191-196

    *2018 ACC Best Student Paper Award*

  88. Data-driven distributed optimization using Wasserstein ambiguity sets
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2017, pp. 38-44

  89. Convex relaxation for mixed-integer optimal power flow problems
    C.-Y. Chang, S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2017, pp. 307-314

  90. Dynamic domain reduction for multi-agent planning
    A. Ma, M. Ouimet, J. Cortés
    International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, Los Angeles, California, 2017, pp. 142-149

  91. Time-triggering versus event-triggering control over communication channels
    M. J. Khojasteh, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés, M. Franceschetti
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, pp. 5432-5437

  92. Event-triggered interactive gradient descent for real-time multi-objective optimization
    P. Ong, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, pp. 5445-5450

  93. Grid-connected microgrid participation in frequency-regulation markets via hierarchical coordination
    C.-Y. Chang, S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, pp. 3501-3506

  94. Nonsmooth barrier functions with applications to multi-robot systems
    P. Glotfelter, J. Cortés, M. Egerstedt
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017, pp. 5237-5242

  95. A scheduled-asynchronous distributed optimization algorithm for the optimal power flow problem
    C.-Y. Chang. J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2017, pp. 3968-3973

  96. Transient-state feasibility set approximation of power networks against disturbances of unknown amplitude
    Y. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2017, pp. 2767-2772

  97. Time-invariant versus time-varying actuator scheduling in complex networks
    E. Nozari, F. Pasqualetti, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2017, pp. 4995-5000

  98. Distributed coordination of power generators for a linearized optimal power flow problem
    A. Cherukuri, A. D. Domínguez-García, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2017, pp. 3962-3967

  99. Decentralized Nash equilibrium seeking by strategic generators for DC optimal power flow
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2017, electronic proceedings

  100. The value of timing information in event-triggered control: the scalar case
    M. J. Khojasteh, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés, M. Franceschetti
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2016, pp. 1165-1172

  101. Event-triggered stabilization of scalar linear systems under packet drops
    P. Tallapragada, M. Franceschetti, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2016, pp. 1173-1180

  102. The role of strong convexity-concavity in the convergence and robustness of the saddle-point dynamics
    A. Cherukuri, E. Mallada, S. Low, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2016, pp. 504-510

  103. Distributed algorithms for convex network optimization under non-sparse equality constraints
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2016, pp. 452-459

  104. Visibility-based distributed deployment of robotic teams in polyhedral terrains
    A. Ma, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016, DSCC2016-9820

  105. Differential privacy in control and network systems
    J. Cortés, G. E. Dullerud, S. Han, J. Le Ny, S. Mitra, G. J. Pappas
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2016, pp. 4252-4272

  106. Exponentially fast distributed coordination for nonsmooth convex optimization
    S. K. Niederländer, F. Allgöwer, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2016, pp. 1036-1041

  107. Scheduling of control nodes for improved network controllability
    Y. Zhao, F. Pasqualetti, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016, USA, pp. 1859-1864

  108. Event-triggered control for nonlinear systems with time-varying input delay
    E. Nozari, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2016, pp. 495-500

  109. Quantifying the robustness of power networks against initial failure
    Y. Zhang, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 2016, pp. 2072-2077

  110. Differentially private distributed convex optimization via objective perturbation
    E. Nozari, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2016, pp. 2061-2066

  111. Decentralized Nash equilibrium learning by strategic generators for economic dispatch
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2016, pp. 1082-1087

  112. Identification of linear networks with latent nodes
    Y. Zhao, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2016, pp. 173-178

  113. Event-triggered stabilization of linear systems under channel blackouts
    P. Tallapragada, M. Franceschetti, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2015, pp. 604-611

  114. Coordinated intersection traffic management
    P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, issue 22, pp. 233-239

  115. Distributed optimization for multi-task learning via nuclear-norm approximation
    D. Mateos-Nuñez, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, issue 22, pp. 64-69

  116. Differentially private average consensus with optimal noise selection
    E. Nozari, P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés
    IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, issue 22, pp. 203-208

  117. Network integrity via coordinated motion of stratospheric vehicles
    M. Ouimet, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 215-220

  118. Reachability metrics for bilinear complex networks
    Y. Zhao, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 4788-4793

  119. The effect of delayed side information on fundamental limitations of disturbance attenuation
    Y. Zhao, V. Gupta, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 1878-1883

  120. Distributed coordination for separable convex optimization with coupling constraints
    S. K. Niederländer, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 694-699

  121. Distributed subgradient methods for saddle-point problems
    D. Mateos-Nuñez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 5462-5467

  122. Distributed dynamic economic dispatch of power generators with storage
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 2365-2370

  123. Convergence of Caratheodory solutions for primal-dual dynamics in constrained concave optimization
    A. Cherukuri, E. Mallada, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Paris, France, 2015, pp. 290-296

  124. Asymptotic stability of saddle points under the saddle-point dynamics
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2015, pp. 2020-2025

    *2015 ACC Best Student Paper Award Finalist*


  125. Team-triggered coordination of robotic networks for optimal deployment
    C. Nowzari, J. Cortés, G. J. Pappas
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2015, pp. 5744-5751

  126. Distributed coordination for economic dispatch with varying load and generator commitment
    A. Cherukuri, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2014, pp. 475-482

  127. Event-triggered control with bounded data rate
    P. Tallapragada, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014, pp. 1989-1994

  128. Distributed event-triggered optimization for linear programming
    D. Richert, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014, pp. 2007-2012

  129. Dynamic average consensus with distributed event-triggered communication
    S. S. Kia, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014, pp. 890-895

  130. Coordinated rendezvous of underwater drifters in ocean internal waves
    M. Ouimet, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014, pp. 6099-6104

  131. Distributed online second-order dynamics for convex optimization over switching connected graphs
    D. Mateos-Nuñez, J. Cortés
    International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2014, pp. 15-22

  132. Zeno-free, distributed event-triggered communication and control for multi-agent average consensus
    C. Nowzari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014, pp. 2148-2153

  133. Periodic and event-triggered communication for distributed continuous-time convex optimization
    S. S. Kia, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014, pp. 5010-5015

  134. Robust estimation and aggregation of ocean internal wave parameters using Lagrangian drifters
    M. Ouimet, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014, pp. 5121-5126

  135. Distributed, anytime optimization in power-generator networks for economic dispatch
    A. Cherukuri, S. Martínez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014, pp. 172-177

  136. Noise-to-state stable distributed convex optimization on weight-balanced digraphs
    D. Mateos-Nuñez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013, pp. 2781-2786

  137. Distributed line search via dynamic convex combinations
    J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013, pp. 2346-2351

  138. Integral input-to-state stable saddle-point dynamics for distributed linear programming
    D. Richert, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013, pp. 7480-7485

  139. Saturation-tolerant average consensus with controllable rates of convergence
    S. S. Kia, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, San Diego, California, USA, 2013, pp. 121-128

  140. Distributed map merging with consensus on common information
    R. Aragüés, J. Cortés, C. Sagüés
    Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zürich, Switzerland, 2013, pp. 736-741

  141. Singularly perturbed algorithms for dynamic average consensus
    S. S. Kia, J. Cortés, S. Martínez
    Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zürich, Switzerland, 2013, pp. 1758-1763

  142. Team-triggered coordination of networked systems
    C. Nowzari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2013, pp. 3827-3832

  143. Stability of stochastic differential equations with additive persistent noise
    D. Mateos-Nuñez, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2013, pp. 5447-5452

  144. Distributed linear programming and bargaining in exchange networks
    D. Richert, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2013, pp. 4624-4629

  145. Distributed estimation of internal wave parameters via inter-drogue distances
    M. Ouimet, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA 2012, pp. 2433-2438

  146. Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with directed topologies
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA 2012, pp. 5786-5791

  147. Optimal leader allocation in UAV formation pairs under costly switching
    D. Richert, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA 2012, pp. 831-836

  148. Robust optimal investment policies for servicing targets in acyclic digraphs
    C. Nowzari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA 2012, pp. 136-141

  149. Continuous-time distributed convex optimization on weight-balanced digraphs
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA 2012, pp. 7451-7456

  150. Exploration of misperceptions in hypergames
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2011, pp. 1565-1570

  151. Distributed convergence to Nash equilibria by adversarial networks with undirected topologies
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montréal, Canada, 2012, pp. 5881-5886

  152. Optimal leader allocation in UAV formation pairs under no-cost switching
    D. Richert, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montréal, Canada, 2012, pp. 3297-3302

  153. Coalition formation and motion coordination for optimal deployment
    M. Ouimet, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011, pp. 6882-6887

  154. Stealthy strategies for deception in hypergames with asymmetric information
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011, pp. 5762-5767

  155. Self-triggered coordination of robotic networks for optimal deployment
    C. Nowzari, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011, pp. 1039-1044

    *2011 ACC Best Student Paper Award Finalist*
    *2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category*

  156. Learning of equilibria and misperceptions in hypergames with perfect observations
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011, pp. 4045-4050

  157. Evolution of the perception about the opponent in hypergames
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010, pp. 1076-1081

  158. Generalized multicircumcenter trajectories for optimal design under near-independance
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010, pp. 5499-5504

  159. Deployment of an unreliable robotic sensor network for spatial estimation
    J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010, pp. 376-381

  160. Dynamic modeling and pneumatic switching control of a submersible drogue
    Y. Han, R. A. de Callafon, J. Cortés, J. Jaffe
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2010, vol 2, pp. 89-97

  161. Dynamic consensus for merging visual maps under limited communications
    R. Aragüés, J. Cortés, and C. Sagüés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, 2010, pp. 3032-3037

  162. When does a digraph admit a doubly stochastic adjacency matrix?
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010, pp. 2440-2445

  163. Spatial statistics and distributed estimation by robotic sensor networks
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010, pp. 2422-2427

  164. Distributed strategies for making a digraph weight-balanced
    B. Gharesifard, J. Cortés
    Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, USA, 2009, pp. 771-777

  165. 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

  166. Cooperative adaptive sampling via approximate entropy maximization
    R. Graham, J. Cortés
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009, pp. 7055-7060

  167. 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

  168. 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

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

  170. 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

  171. 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

  172. 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

  173. 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

  174. 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

  175. 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

  176. 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

  177. 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

  178. 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

  179. 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

  180. 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

  181. 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

  182. 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

  183. 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

  184. 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

  185. 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

    *2006 ACC Best Student Paper Award*

  186. 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

  187. 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

  188. 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

  189. 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

  190. 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

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

  192. 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

    *2005 ACC Best Student Paper Award Finalist*

  193. 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

  194. 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

  195. 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

  196. 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

  197. 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

  198. 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

  199. 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

    *2002 CDC Best Student Paper Award*

  200. 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

  201. 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

  202. 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

  203. 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

  204. 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

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

  206. 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

  207. 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

  208. 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

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