2008 Publications

• A. Abate, M. Prandini, J. Lygeros, and S. Sastry. "Probabilistic Reachability and Safety for Controlled Discrete Time Stochastic Hybrid Systems" .Accepted to Automatica, 2008.
• A. Abate, A. D'Innocenzo, M.D. Di Benedetto, and S. Sastry. "Markov Set-Chains as abstractions of Stochastic Hybrid Systems". To appear in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2008.
• A. Abate, M. Prandini, J. Lygeros, and S. Sastry. "Approximation of General Stochastic Hybrid Systems by Switching Diffusions with Random Hybrid Jumps." To appear in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2008
• Allen Yang, John Wright,  Yi Ma, and Shankar Sastry. “Unsupervised Segmentation of Natural Images via Lossy Data Compression”. To appear in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2008.
• Alvaro A. Cardenas, Tanya Roosta, Shankar Sastry. "Rethinking Security Properties, Threat Models, and the Design Space in Sensor Networks". Under review in ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 2008.
• Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Shankar Sastry."Secure Control:Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems". First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2008). Beijing, China. June 2008. (To appear.)
• Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Tanya Roosta, Gelareh Taban, Shankar Sastry. “Cybersecurity: Basic Defenses and Attack Trends”. In Giorgio Franceschetti and Marina Grossi Eds. Homeland Security. A multi-facet technological challenge. Artech House. (To appear.) TBA 2008
• Annarita Giani, Tanya Roosta, Shankar Sastry."Integrity Checker for Wireless Sensor Networks in Health Care Applications". 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, January 2008, Tampere, Finland.
• Gonzalez, H., Grøtli, E. I., Templeton, T. R., Biermeyer, J. O., Sprinkle, J. and Sastry, S. S. "Transitioning control and sensing technologies from fully-autonomous driving to driver assistance systems". Automatisierungs-, Assistenzsysteme und eingebettete Systeme für Transportmittel, Braunschweig, Germany, Februar 13-14, 2008.
• Hoam Chung, Elijah Polak, and Shankar Sastry, "An Accelerator for Packages Solving Discrete-Time Optimal Control Problems". IFAC 2008 (to appear).
• Hoam Chung, Elijah Polak, and Shankar Sastry. "Enhancements for Contractive Receding Horizon Control" IFAC 2008 (to appear).
• Jerry Ding, Jonathan Sprinkle, S. Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin. “Reachability Calculations for Automated Aerial Refueling.” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, (submitted), December, 2008.
• John Wright, Allen Yang, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Sastry, and Yi Ma. “Robust face recognition via sparse representation”. To appear in IEEE Transcations on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2008.
• Jonathan Sprinkle, J. Mikael Eklund, Humberto Gonzalez, Esten Grøtli, Pannag R Sanketi, Michael Moser, S. Shankar Sastry. "Recovering Models of a Four-Wheel Vehicle Using Vehicular Systems Data". IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, (submitted), December, 2008.

· Sameer Pai, Marci Meingast, Tanya Roosta, Sergio Bermudez, Stephen Wicker, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Shankar Sastry. "Confidentiality in Sensor Networks: Transactional Information". To be published in IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, 2008.

· Tanya Roosta, Martin J. Wainwright, Shankar Sastry."Convergence Analysis of Reweighted Sum-Product Algorithms". To be published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2008.

• Tanya Roosta, Wei-Chieh Liao, Wei-Chung Teng , Shankar Sastry."Testbed Implementation of A Secure Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol". IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2008.
• Vincent Duindam, Ron Alterovitz, Shankar Sastry, and Ken Goldberg."Screw-Based Motion Planning for Bevel-Tip Flexible Needles in 3D Environments with Obstacles". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008.