Contact me for copies of papers not linked here.  See also the ERA publications page.

Hierarchical and Distributed Coordination and Control

• Serdar Yüksel, Haitham Hindi, and Lara Crawford, "Optimal Tracking with Feedback-Feedforward Control Separation over a Network."  In:  Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2006, pp. 3500–3506.
• Haitham Hindi, Lara S. Crawford, and Markus P.J. Fromherz: "Synchronization of State Based Control Processes with Delayed and Asynchronous Measurements."  In:  Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2005, pp. 6370–6375.
• Markus P.J. Fromherz, Lara S. Crawford, and Haitham A. Hindi:  "Coordinated Control for Highly Reconfigurable Systems."  In:  Proceedings of Hybrid Systems:  Computation and Control (HSCC), Zurich, Switzerland, 2005.
• Ying Zhang, Markus P.J. Fromherz, Lara S. Crawford, and Yi Shang: "A General Constraint-based Control Framework with Examples in Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots." In: 2002 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep. 2002.

Optimization & Control

• Ying Lu, Lara S. Crawford, Wheeler Ruml, and Markus P.J. Fromherz:  "Feedback Control for Real-time Solving." In: CP'04 Workshop on Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty, Toronto, Canada, September 27, 2004, pp. 21-35.
• Yi Shang, Markus P.J. Fromherz, Ying Zhang, and Lara S. Crawford: "Constraint-based Routing for Ad-hoc Networks." In: IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003), Newark, NJ, USA, Aug. 2003, pp. 306-310.
• Yi Shang, Markus P.J. Fromherz, Lara S. Crawford, and Ying Zhang: "Complexity Analysis of Local-Search-Based Solvers for Continuous Constraint Problems." In: 2nd Annual McMaster Optimization Conference: Theory and Applications (MOPTA'02), Abstract, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2002.
• Yi Shang, Markus P.J. Fromherz, and Lara S. Crawford: "Solving Nonlinear Continuous Constraint Problems." In: Int. Congress of Mathematicians (ICM'02), Short Communication, Beijing, China, Aug. 2002.
• Yi Shang, Markus P.J. Fromherz, and Lara S. Crawford. "Efficient Cooperative Solvers for Nonlinear Continuous Constraint Problems." In: Int. Congress on Mathematical Software (ICMS'02), Beijing, China, Aug. 2002.
• Markus P.J. Fromherz, Lara S. Crawford, Christophe Guettier, and Yi Shang. "Distributed Adaptive Constrained Optimization for Smart Matter Systems." In: AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Embedded and Distributed Systems, Stanford, CA, USA, March 2002.
• Lara S. Crawford, Markus P.J. Fromherz, Christophe Guettier, and Yi Shang. "A Framework for On-line Adaptive Control of Problem Solving." In: CP'01 Workshop on On-line Combinatorial Problem Solving and Constraint Programming, Paphos, Cyprus, Dec. 2001.
• Yi Shang, Yungchun Wan, Markus P.J. Fromherz, and Lara S. Crawford. "Towards Adaptive Cooperation between Global and Local Solvers for Continuous Constraint Problems." In: CP'01 Workshop on Cooperative Solvers in Constraint Programming, Paphos, Cyprus, Dec. 2001.

Real-Time Control

• Haitham Hindi, Craig Eldershaw, Lara Crawford, Marc Barberis, and Niraj Shah: "Simulation of Fixed Point Arithmetic in Signal Processing Applications:  DSP and FPGA."  In: RTC Magazine, September 2005.

Genetic Optimization

• L. S. Crawford, V. H. L. Cheng, R. Burns, and S. Liu, “Near-optimal antenna placement using genetic search,” 8th AIAA/NASA/USAF/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, September 2000.
• V. H. L. Cheng, L. S. Crawford, and P. K. Menon, “Air traffic control using genetic search techniques,” IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, August 1999, pp. 249–254.
• L. S. Crawford, V. H. L. Cheng, and P. K. Menon, “Synthesis of flight vehicle guidance and control laws using genetic search methods,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, August 1999.

• L. S. Crawford, V. Sharma, and P. K. Menon, “Numerical synthesis of a failure-tolerant, nonlinear adaptive autopilot,” IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, September 2000.
• L. S. Crawford, V. R. Iragavarapu, and P. K. Menon, “Numerical synthesis of nonlinear adaptive control systems for missiles,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2000, pp. 2174–2178.
• J-M. Godhavn, A. Balluchi, L. S. Crawford, and S. S. Sastry, “Control of Nonholonomic Systems with Drift Terms,” Automatica, vol. 35, no. 5, May 1999, pp. 837–47.
• John-Morten Godhavn, Andrea Balluchi, Lara S. Crawford, and S. Shankar Sastry, “Path Planning for Nonholonomic Systems with Drift,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, July 1997, pp. 532-536.

• Lara S. Crawford, Learning Control of Complex Skills, Ph.D. dissertation, UC Berkeley, September, 1998.
• Lara S. Crawford and S. Shankar Sastry, “Learning Controllers for Complex Behavioral Systems,” UC Berkeley ERL Memo Number M96/73, December 1996; also presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems Tenth Annual Conference (NIPS*96), December 1996.
• Lara S. Crawford and S. Shankar Sastry, “Biological Motor Control Approaches for a Planar Diver,” Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1995, pp. 3881-3886.

• Michael B. Cohn, Lara S. Crawford, Jeff M. Wendlandt, and S. Shankar Sastry, “Surgical Applications of Milli-Robots,” Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 1995, pp. 401-416.
• Michael B. Cohn, Lara S. Crawford, Jeff M. Wendlandt, and S. Shankar Sastry, “Millirobotics for Telesurgery,” Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, September 1994, pp. 184-189.
• Lara S. Crawford, “A Dextrous Master for Telesurgery,” Masters thesis, UC Berkeley, December 1993.