Faculty - Aerospace Engineering - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

AE at Illinois wishes hearty congratulations to Undergraduate Student Coordinator Barb Kirts on her retirement from the University of Illinois!

Five AE students moved closer to the dream of being an astronaut when the NASA chose their team to conduct an experiment in microgravity.

For the first time, AE researchers demonstrate the control functions that allow birds to successfully perform a soft landing.

P. Barry Butler addresses the audience at the April 21 College of Engineering Awards Convocation

High School students attended Illinois Space Day recently on the U of I campus.

Cedric Langbort

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Office address	Mailing Address	Research Group
321B Talbot Lab 217-265-6236	306 Talbot Lab 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Professor Langbort works in the field of Aerospace Information Technology. In particular, he tries to understand the dynamics and control of large-scale distributed systems such as multi-vehicle missions, air traffic management systems, and smart materials. Of particular interest are fundamental questions regarding the role of communication constraints between subsystems, system architecture, tolerance to individual failure, and intrinsic limitations of distributed control algorithms due to segmentation of information. He uses tools from dynamical systems theory, control theory, and convex optimization coupled with concepts from economics and computer science such as organization efficiency and online algorithms.

Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, January 2005.
M.S., "Turbulence & Dynamical Systems," Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice (Nice, France), 2000.
M.S., "Control Theory," Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace-Supaero (Toulouse, France), 1999
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace-Supaero (Toulouse, France), 1999.

2004-2006, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology

2001-2004, Research Assistant, Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University

C. Langbort and J.C. Delvenne, Optimal Control Without the Matrix. Submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (San Diego, CA) 2006.
C. Langbort and V. Gupta, Minimal Interconnection Topology in Distributed Control Design, in Proc. of the American Control Conference (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.
C. Langbort, V. Gupta, and R.M. Murray, Distributed Control over Failing Channels, in P. Tabuada and P. Antsaklis (Editors), Networked Embedded Sensing and Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series, vol. 331, Springer Verlag, 2006.