The Center’s mission is to maintain the highest international academic profile of UC San Diego’s control program, serve as a catalyst for interaction with industry, foster collaborations with researchers from other fields, and recruit outstanding undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in control systems to UCSD.

The center’s faculty are leaders in many areas of mathematical control theory and decision-making, including robust control, nonlinear control, stochastic systems, adaptive control, hybrid control, system identification, optimal control, game theory, optimization algorithms, geometric mechanics and nonholonomic systems, delay systems, and distributed parameter systems. These theories, while frequently engendered by specific applications, form the intellectual core of Control and Dynamic Systems and apply to a wide range of problem domains, some of which are mentioned below. The ability to access and to invent new theory is critical to the formulation of approaches to real problems and to the provision of performance specifications and guarantees.