Laurent Lessard, Ph.D.

Dissertation

• Tractability of Complex Control Systems
  L. Lessard
  Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, (August 2011)
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Publications

• Optimal controller synthesis for the decentralized two-player problem with output feedback
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  Submitted, American Control Conference 2012
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• A state-space solution to the two-player decentralized optimal control problem
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (September 2011)
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• Quadratic invariance is necessary and sufficient for convexity
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  American Control Conference (July 2011)
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• An algebraic framework for quadratic invariance
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (December 2010)
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• Internal quadratic invariance and decentralized control
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  American Control Conference (July 2010)
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• Reduction of decentralized control problems to tractable representations
  L. Lessard and S. Lall
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (December 2009)
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• Experimental validation of single-iteration multigrid wavefront reconstruction at the Palomar Observatory
  L. Lessard, D. MacMynowski, M. West, A. Bouchez, and S. Lall
  Optics Letters (September 2008)
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• Warm-started wavefront reconstruction for adaptive optics
  L. Lessard, M. West, D. MacMynowski, and S. Lall
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A (May 2008)
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Talks and Presentations

• Tractability of Decentralized Control Problems
  2011 National Control Engineering Students Workshop, University of Maryland (April 2011)
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• Recent Developments in Algorithms for Tractable Computation of Decentralized Control Systems
  Tutorial Session: "Networked Control Systems: Perspectives, Techniques, and Research Directions"
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (December 2009)
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• Reduction of Decentralized Control Problems to Tractable Representations
  Poster Session, Annual Meeting of the Stanford Computer Forum (April 2009)
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• Multiscale Control and Estimation
  Poster Session, DARPA Robust Uncertainty Management Program Review (June 2007)
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