A Method for Determining the Robustness of Bio-molecular Oscillator Models.
R. Ghaemi, J. Sun, P. Iglesias, and D. Del Vecchio. BMC Systems Biology, 3:95, 2009.

Design and Characterization of a Three-terminal Transcriptional Device through Polymerase Per Second.
P. Varadarajan and D. Del Vecchio. IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, to appear, 2009.

Engineering Principles in Bio-molecular Systems: From Retroactivity to Modularity.
D. Del Vecchio and E. D. Sontag. Special Issue of the European Journal of Control, vol. 15 (3-4), 2009.

Observer-based Control of Block-Triangular Discrete Time Hybrid Automata on a Partial Order
D. Del Vecchio. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control--Special Issue, vol. 19(14), pages 1581-1602, 2009.

Cascade Estimators for Systems on a Partial Order
D. Del Vecchio. Systems & Control Letters, pages 842-850, 2008.

Modular Cell Biology: Retroactivity and Insulation
D. Del Vecchio, A. J. Ninfa, and E. D. Sontag. Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology, 4:161, 2008.

Development of a Scaled Vehicle with Longitudinal Dynamics of a HMMWV for an ITS Testbed
R. Verma, D. Del Vecchio, and H. Fathy. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 13(1), pp. 46-57, 2008.

Discrete State Estimators for Systems on a Lattice
D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and E. Klavins. Automatica, vol. 42, pp. 271-285, 2006.

Boundary Control for an Industrial Under-actuated Tubular Chemical Reactor
D. Del Vecchio and N. Petit. Journal of Process Control, vol. 15, pp. 771-784, 2005.

Decomposition of Human Motion into Dynamics Based Primitives with Application to Drawing Tasks
D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and P. Perona. Automatica, vol. 39(12), pp. 2085-2098, 2003.

Adaptive Learning Control for Feedback Linearizable Systems
D. Del Vecchio, R. Marino, and P. Tomei. European Journal of Control, vol. 9, Nb. 5, 2003.

Adaptive Control of Feedback Linearizable Systems by Orthogonal Approximation Functions
D. Del Vecchio, R. Marino, and P. Tomei. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol. 16, pp. 635-652, 2002.

Books and Book Chapters

Biomolecular Feedback Systems
D. Del Vecchio and R. M. Murray. Book in preparation.

Complexity management in the state estimation of multi-agent systems
D. Del Vecchio and R. M. Murray. In Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems, J. Shamma (Ed), pages 377-407, John Wiley 2008.

Synthetic Biology: A Systems Engineering Perspective
D. Del Vecchio and E. D. Sontag. In Control Theory and Systems Biology, P. A. Iglesias and B. P. Ingalls (Eds), pages 101-124, The MIT Press 2009.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Computation of Safety Control for Uncertain Piecewise Continuous Systems on a Partial Order.
M. Hafner and D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 (To Appear).

Continuous Control of Hybrid Automata with Imperfect Mode Information Assuming Separation between State Estimation and Control.
R. Verma and D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decicion and Control, 2009 (To Appear).

On the Compromise between Retroactivity Attenuation and Noise Amplification in Gene Regulatory Networks. (Invited Paper)
S. Jayanthi and D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 (To Appear).

Design of Insulating Devices for In Vitro Synthetic Circuits. (Invited Paper)
E. Franco, D. Del Vecchio and R. M. Murray. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 (To Appear).

Partial Order Techniques for Vehicle Collision Avoidance: Application to an Autonomous Roundabout Test-bed.
V. Desaraju, H. C. Ro, M. Yang, E. Tay, S. Roth, D. Del Vecchio. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.

A Separation Principle for a Class of Hybrid Automata on a Partial Order.
D. Del Vecchio, M. Malisoff, and R. Verma. American Control Conference, 2009.

Engineering Principles in Bio-molecular Systems: From Retroactivity to Modularity.
D. Del Vecchio and E. D. Sontag. European Control Conference (ECC), 2009 (To Appear). Selected for a Special Issue of the European Journal of Control

Retroactivity Attenuation in Transcriptional Networks: Design and Analysis of an Insulation Device
D. Del Vecchio and S. Jayanthi. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, December 2008, Cancun (Invited Paper).

Longitudinal Vehicle Dynamics Scaling and Implementation on a HIL Setup
R. Verma, D. Del Vecchio, and H. Fathy. Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 2008, Ann Arbor.

A Systems Theory with Retroactivity: Application to Transcriptional Modules
D. Del Vecchio, A. J. Ninfa, and E. D. Sontag. Proc. of American Control Conference, June 2008, Seattle.

A Partial Order Approach for Low Complexity Control of Block Triangular Hybrid Automata
D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, December 2007, New Orleans.

Observer-based Control for Block-triangular Hybrid Automata.
D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, December 2007, New Orleans,(Invited Paper).

Evaluating the Robustness of a Biochemical Network Model
R. Ghaemi and D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, December 2007, New Orleans.

Design and Analysis of an Activator-Repressor Clock in E. coli
D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of American Control Conference, July 2007, New York.

Dynamics and Control of Synthetic Bio-molecular Networks
D. Del Vecchio and E.D. Sontag. Proc. of American Control Conference, July 2007, New York. (Tutorial Paper)

A Partial Order Approach to Discrete Dynamic Feedback in a Class of Hybrid Systems
D. Del Vecchio. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, April 2007, Pisa.

Discrete Dynamic Feedback for a Class of Hybrid Systems on a Lattice
D. Del Vecchio. IEEE CCA/CACSD/ISIC 2006, Munich. (Invited Paper)

Cascade Discrete-Continuous State Estimators for a Class of Monotone Systems
D. Del Vecchio and R.M. Murray. Proc. of IFAC 2005, Praha.

Existence of Cascade Discrete-Continuous State Estimators for Systems on a Partial Order
D. Del Vecchio and R.M. Murray. Hybrid Systems: Computation a nd Control, 2005 Zurich, Switzerland.

Repressilators and Promotilators: Loop Dynamics in Gene Regulatory Networks
H. El Samad, D. Del Vecchio, and M. Khammash. Proc. of American Control Conference, 2005. (Invited Paper)

Existence of Discrete State Estimators for Hybrid Systems on a Lattice
D. Del Vecchio and R.M. Murray. Proc. of Conference on Decisi on and Control, 2004 Atlantis, Bahamas. (Invited Paper)

Identification of Decision Rules in a Human Controlled System: Vehicles at a Traffic Intersection
C. L. Walton, D. Del Vecchio, and R. M. Murray. Proc. of International Conference of Robotics and Automation, 2004, New Orleans.

Vision as a Compensatory Mechanism for Disturbance Rejection in Upwind Flight
M. B. Reiser, J. S. Humbert, M. J. Dunlop, D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, M. H. Dickinson. Proc. of American Control Conference, 2004, Boston.
Winner of best student paper competition

Discrete State Estimators for a Class of Hybrid Systems on a Lattice
D. Del Vecchio and R. M. Murray. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2004 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Observation of Guarded Command Programs
D. Del Vecchio and E. Klavins. Proc of Conference on Decision and Control, 2003 Maui, Hawaii. (Invited Paper)

Classification of Human Motion into Dynamics Based Primitives with Application to Drawing Tasks
D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and P. Perona. Proc. of European Control Conference, 2003 Cambridge (UK).

Segmentation of Human Motion into Dynamics Based Primitives with Application to Drawing Tasks
D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and P. Perona. Proc of. American Control Conference, 2003 Denver, Colorado.

Primitives for Human Motion: A Dynamical Approach
D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and P. Perona. Proc. of IFAC, 2002 Barcelona, Spain.

An Adaptive Learning Control for Feedback Linearizable Systems.
D. Del Vecchio, R. Marino, and P. Tomei. Proc. of American Control Conference, Washington, VA 2001.

Adaptive Learning Control for Robot Manipulators.
D. Del Vecchio, R. Marino, and P. Tomei. Proc. of American Control Conference, Washington, VA 2001.

Other (abstracts, special sessions)

Control of Hybrid Automata with Imperfect Mode Information
D. Del Vecchio, Second Workshop on Numerical Software Verification , San Francisco 2009

From Retroactivity to Insulation: a Novel Engineering Principle Learned from Natural Bio-molecular Systems
D. Del Vecchio, Institute for Biological Engineering Conference , San Francisco 2009

Tutorial Session: Partial order techniques for the analysis and synthesis of hybrid and embedded systems
Organizer: D. Del Vecchio
Contributors: Jean-François Raskin (Computer Science Dept., Université Libre de Bruxelles), Georgios E. Fainekos and G Pappas (GRASP Lab, Upenn), Edward A. Lee (EECS, UC Berkeley), Derek Caveney and Lorenzo Caminiti (Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor)
Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans 2007.

Modules and Retroactivity: Theoretical Framework, Analysis, and Design.
D. Del Vecchio, A. J. Ninfa, and E. D. Sontag. International Conference on Systems Biology, Long Beach, 2007.
Poster Abstract

An Introduction to Control of Synthetic Bio-molecular Systems
D. Del Vecchio. Proc. of Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans 2007.

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