Claire Tomlin

Professor

Research Areas

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• Control theory; hybrid and embedded systems; biological cell networks

Research Centers

• Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)
• SWARM Lab

Biography

She received her B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, 1992, a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, London, 1993, and a Ph.D. in EECS, U.C. Berkeley, 1998. Holder of the Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering.

Selected Publications

• R. L. Raffard and C. Tomlin, "Tractable algorithm for open loop stochastic control," in Proc. 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC 2006), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 3222-3227.
• R. Raffard, K. Amonlirdviman, J. D. Axelrod, and C. Tomlin, "Automatic parameter identification via the adjoint method, with application to understanding planar cell polarity," in Proc. 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC 2006), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 13-18.
• I. Hwang, H. Balakrishnan, and C. Tomlin, "State estimation for hybrid systems: Applications to aircraft tracking," IEE Proc. Control Theory and Applications, vol. 153, no. 5, pp. 556-566, Sep. 2006.
• A. M. Bayen, R. L. Raffard, and C. Tomlin, "Adjoint-based control of a new Eulerian network model for air traffic flow," IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 804-818, Sep. 2006.
• K. Roy, B. Levy, and C. Tomlin, "Target tracking and estimated time of arrival (ETA) prediction for arrival aircraft," in Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf. and Exhibit, Herndon, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 2006, pp. 1-22.
• S. L. Waslander, R. L. Raffard, and C. Tomlin, "Toward efficient and equitable distributed air traffic flow control," in Proc. 2006 American Control Conf. (ACC '06), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 5189-5194.
• A. M. Bayen, P. Grieder, G. Meyer, and C. Tomlin, "Lagrangian delay predictive model for sector-based air traffic flow," AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1015-1026, Sep. 2005.
• I. M. Mitchell, A. M. Bayen, and C. Tomlin, "A time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of reachable sets for continuous dynamic games," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 947-957, July 2005.
• C. Tomlin and J. D. Axelrod, "Understanding biology by reverse engineering the control," Proc. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102, no. 12, pp. 4219-4220, March 2005.
• I. Hwang, K. Roy, H. Balakrishnan, and C. Tomlin, "A distributed multiple-target identity management algorithm in sensor networks," in Proc. 2004 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Vol. 1, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2004, pp. 728-734.
• D. M. Stipanovic, G. Inalhan, R. Teo, and C. Tomlin, "Decentralized overlapping control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles," Automatica, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1285-1296, Aug. 2004.
• I. Hwang, H. Balakrishnan, K. Roy, and C. Tomlin, "Multiple-target tracking and identity management in clutter, with application to aircraft tracking," in Proc. 2004 American Control Conf. (ACC '04), Vol. 4, Evanston, IL: American Automatic Control Council, 2004, pp. 3422-3428.
• R. Ghosh and C. Tomlin, "Symbolic reachable set computation of piecewise affine hybrid automata and its application to biological modelling: Delta-Notch protein signalling," IEE Systems Biology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 170-183, June 2004.
• C. Tomlin, I. Mitchell, A. M. Bayen, and M. Oishi, "Computational techniques for the verification of hybrid systems," Proc. IEEE, vol. 91, no. 7, pp. 986-1001, July 2003.
• R. Ghosh and C. Tomlin, "Lateral inhibition through Delta-Notch signaling: A piecewise affine hybrid model," in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. Proc. 4th Intl. Workshop (HSCC 2001), M. D. Di Benedetto and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2034, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 232-246.
• C. Tomlin, J. Lygeros, and S. S. Sastry, "A game theoretic approach to controller design for hybrid systems (Invited Paper)," Proc. IEEE, vol. 88, no. 7, pp. 949-970, July 2000.
• I. Mitchell and C. Tomlin, "Level set methods for computation in hybrid systems," in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. Proc. 3rd Intl. Workshop (HSCC 2000), N. A. Lynch and B. H. Krogh, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1790, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2000, pp. 310-323.
• J. Lygeros, C. Tomlin, and S. S. Sastry, "Controllers for reachability specifications for hybrid systems," Automatica, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 349-370, March 1999.
• C. Tomlin, G. J. Pappas, and S. S. Sastry, "Conflict resolution for air traffic management: A study in multiagent hybrid systems," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 509-521, April 1998.