Papers

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2011 and older:

Journal Papers

8. Measuring Single-Molecule DNA Hybridization by Active Control of DNA in a Nanopore

Brett Gyarfas, Robin Abu-Shumays, Hongyun Wang and William B. Dunbar.
Biophysical Journal, Vol. 100, No. 6, pp. 1509-1516, 2011.

7. Electronic Control of DNA Polymerase Binding and Unbinding to Single DNA Molecules

Noah A. Wilson, Robin Abu-Shumays, Brett Gyarfas, Hongyun Wang, Kate R. Lieberman, Mark Akeson and William B. Dunbar.
ACS Nano, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 995-1003, 2009.

6. Sequence-Specific Detection of Individual DNA Polymerase Complexes in Real Time Using a Nanopore

Seico Benner, Roger J.A. Chen, Noah A. Wilson, Robin Abu-Shumays, Nicolas Hurt, Kate R. Lieberman, David W. Deamer, William B. Dunbar and Mark Akeson
Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 2, Iss. 11, pp. 718-724, 2007.

5. A High School-Level Course in Feedback Control - A Matlab-Based Introduction Requiring Only Algebra and Trigonometry

Jorge Cortes and William B. Dunbar
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 79-89, 2007.

4. Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Dynamically Coupled Nonlinear Systems

William B. Dunbar
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 7, pp. 1249-1263, 2007.

3. Distributed Receding Horizon Control for Multi-Vehicle Formation Stabilization

William B. Dunbar and Richard M. Murray
Automatica, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 549-558, 2006.

2. Motion Planning for a nonlinear Stefan Problem (preprint)

William B. Dunbar, Nicolas Petit, Pierre Rouchon and Philippe Martin
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations. Vol 9, pp. 275--296, 2003.

1. Damage assessment of a nonlinear space antenna structure using quazilinearization methods

William B. Dunbar and J.B. Kosmatka
AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 7, 2003, pp. 1370-1376.

Conference Papers

19. Performance Analysis of a Horizontal Separation Assurance Algorithm for Short-Range Conflicts

Andrew Trapani, Heinz Erzberger and William B. Dunbar
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Paper Number: AIAA-2009-5746, Chicago, IL, 2009.

18. Rapid Finite State Machine Control of Individual DNA Molecules in a Nanopore

Noah A. Wilson, Robin Abu-Shumays, Elizabeth Koch, Seico Benner, William B. Dunbar
International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES), pp. 94-98 Madeira, Portugal, 2008.

17. Feedback control of a DNA molecule tethered in a nanopore to repeatedly probe DNA-binding enzymes

Noah Wilson, Robin Abu-Shumays, Kate Lieberman, Mark Akeson and William B. Dunbar
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 5745-5748, 2008.

16. Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Cost Coupled Systems.

William B. Dunbar
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Decision and Control.

15. Dynamics and Control of Biomolecules: Research Venues and Opportunities

William B. Dunbar, Noah A. Wilson, Joseph Schaeffer, Eric Klavins, Joshua Bishop and Bertrand C.W. Tanner.
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Decision and Control, tutorial session summary paper.

14. Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators: Theory and Application.

William B. Dunbar
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Decision and Control.

13. A Crash Course in Feedback Control -- A MATLAB-based introduction with one prerequisite: high school algebra.

William B. Dunbar and Jorge Cortes
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Decision and Control, presented as a poster.

12. A Distributed Receding Horizon Control Algorithm for Dynamically Coupled Nonlinear Systems.

William B. Dunbar
Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Decision and Control.

11. Distributed Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Supply Chain Management.

William B. Dunbar and Subhas Desa
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of NMPC, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, Germany, August, 2005.

10. Receding Horizon Control of Multi-Vehicle Formations: A Distributed Implementation. (305K pdf, 8 pages)

William B. Dunbar and Richard M. Murray
Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Decision and Control.

9. Controller Synthesis for Constrained Flight Systems via Receding Horizon Optimization (674K pdf, 11 pages)

Richard M. Murray, William B. Dunbar, Reza Olfati Saber and Lars B. Cremean
The 2nd AIAA "Unmanned Unlimited" Systems, Technologies and Operations - Aerospace, Land, and Sea Conference and Workshop. Sept., 2003, San Diego, CA.

8. Boundary control of a nonlinear Stefan Problem (260K pdf, 6 pages)

William B. Dunbar, Nicolas Petit, Pierre Rouchon and Philippe Rouchon
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI.

7. Toward Feedback Stabilization of Faulty Software Systems: A Case Study (169K pdf, 6 pages)

Stephen Waydo, William B. Dunbar and Eric Klavins
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI.

6. Nonlinear and Cooperative Control of Multiple Hovercraft with Input Constraints (808K pdf, 10 pages)

William B. Dunbar, Reza Olfati Saber and Richard M. Murray
Proceedings of the 2003 European Control Conference, Cambridge, UK.

5. Cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems using cost graphs and optimization (293K pdf, 15 pages)

Reza Olfati Saber, William B. Dunbar and Richard M. Murray
Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO.

4. Model predictive control of coordinated multi-vehicle formations (1.73M pdf, 6 pages)

William B. Dunbar and Richard M. Murray
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV.

3. The Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed (256K pdf, 3 pages)

Lars Cremean, William B. Dunbar, Dave van Gogh, Jason Hickey, Eric Klavins, Jason Meltzer and Richard M.Murray
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV.

2. Model predictive control of a thrust-vectored flight control experiment (314K pdf, 6 pages)

William B. Dunbar, Mark B. Milam, Ryan Franz and Richard M. Murray
Proceedings of the 2002 International Federation of Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain.

1. Coulomb and viscous friction fault detection with application to a pneumatic actuator (288K pdf, 9 pages)

W.B. Dunbar, R.A. de Callafon and J.B. Kosmatka
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Como, Italy.