Aerospace Faculty Profile :
Dr. Derek A. Paley
Assistant Professor
Room 3150 Martin Halll
Research in nonlinear dynamics and controls, cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, and modeling of animal aggregrations.
dpaley@umd.edu | (301) 405-5757
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dpaley (personal website)
Education
B.S., Yale University, 1997 (Applied Physics)
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007 (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Books
N. J. Kasdin and D. A. Paley. An introduction to engineering dynamics. Under contract.
Journal Articles
F. Zhang, D. M. Fratantoni, D. A. Paley, J. M. Lund, and N. E. Leonard. Control of coordinated patterns for ocean sampling. Int. J. Control, 80(7):1186–1199, 2007.
D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, R. Sepulchre, D. Gr ̈unbaum, and J. K. Parrish. Oscillator models and collective motion: Spatial patterns in the dynamics of engineered and biological networks. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 27(4):89–105, 2007.
R. Sepulchre, D. A. Paley, and N. E. Leonard. Stabilization of planar collective motion: All-to-all communication. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 52(5):811–824, 2007.
N. E. Leonard, D. A. Paley, F. Lekien, R. Sepulchre, D. M. Fratantoni, and R. E. Davis. Collective motion, sensor networks and ocean sampling. Proc. IEEE, 95(1):48–74, 2007.
E. Fiorelli, N. E. Leonard, P. Bhatta, D. A. Paley, R. Bachmayer, and D. M. Fratantoni. Multi-AUV control and adaptive sampling in Monterey Bay. IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 31(4):935–948, 2006.
Conference Papers
D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, and R. Sepulchre. Collective motion of self-propelled particles: Stabilizing symmetric formations on closed curves. In Proc. 45th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 5067–5072, San Diego, California, December 2006.
R. Sepulchre, D. A. Paley, and N. E. Leonard. Group coordination and cooperative control of steered particles in the plane. In K. Y. Pettersen, J. T. Gravdahl, and H. Nijmeijer, editors, Group Coordination and Cooperative Control, number 336 in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pages 217–232. Springer, 2006.
D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, and R. Sepulchre. Oscillator models and collective motion: Splay state stabilization of self-propelled particles. In Proc. Joint 44th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control and European Control Conf., pages 3935–3940, Seville, Spain, December 2005.
J. Jeanne, N. E. Leonard, and D. Paley. Collective motion of ring-coupled planar particles. In Proc. Joint 44th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control and European Control Conf., pages 3929–3934, Seville, Spain, December 2005.
P. Bhatta, E. Fiorelli, F. Lekien, N. E. Leonard, D. A. Paley, F. Zhang, R. Bachmayer, R. E. Davis, D.M. Fratantoni, and R. Sepulchre. Coordination of an underwater glider fleet for adaptive ocean sampling. In Proc. Int. Workshop on Underwater Robotics for Sustainable Management of Marine Ecosystems and Environmental Monitoring, pages 61–69, Genoa, Italy, November 2005.
R. Sepulchre, D. Paley, and N. E. Leonard. Graph Laplacian and Lyapunov design of collective planar motions. In Proc. Int. Symp. Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, pages 217–232, Bruges, Belgium, October 2005.
D. Paley, N. E. Leonard, and R. Sepulchre. Collective motion: Bistability and tra jectory tracking. In Proc. 43rd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 1932–1937, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004.
R. Sepulchre, D. Paley, and N. Leonard. Stabilization of collective motion of self-propelled particles. In Proc. 16th Int. Symp. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (electronic), Leuven, Belgium, July 2004. (10 pages).
E. Fiorelli, N. E. Leonard, P. Bhatta, D. Paley, R. Bachmayer, and D. M. Fratantoni. Multi-AUV control and adaptive sampling in Monterey Bay. In Proc. IEEE Autonomous Underwater Vehicles 2004: Workshop on Multiple AUV Operations, pages 134–147, Sebasco Estates, Maine, June 2004.
R. Bachmayer, N. Leonard, J. Graver, E. Fiorelli, P. Bhatta, and D. Paley. Underwater gliders: Recent developments and future applications. In Proc. IEEE Symp. Underwater Technology, pages 195–200, Tapei, Taiwan, April 2004.
R. Sepulchre, D. Paley, and N. Leonard. Collective motion and oscillator synchronization. In V. Kumar, N. Leonard, and A. S. Morse, editors, Cooperative Control: A Post-Workshop Volume 2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control, number 309 in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pages 189–228. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Honors and Awards
Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University
IEEE Conf. Decision and Control Best Paper in Session Award, IEEE Control Systems Society
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation
Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship, Princeton University
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, U. S. Department of Defense
Henry Prentiss Becton Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
Engineering Experience
Analyst, Metron Inc., Reston, VA. Federal Division (July 1997 to October 2000)
Software Engineer, Bluefin Robotics Corp., Cambridge, MA. (October 2000 to August 2002)
Professional Service
Reviewer: Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, American Control Conf., and IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation.
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