Former Connect Lab students Gal Barkai (PhD) and Evyatar Matmon (MSc) recently participated in the European Control Conference (ECC 2026) in Reykjavik, Iceland, where they presented their latest work on networked control systems.
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Gal presented the paper “On two-degrees-of-freedom agreement protocols” with Leonid Mirkin and Daniel Zelazo. The work proposes a distributed two-degrees-of-freedom architecture for agreement protocols, separating local feedback from network filtering to improve disturbance rejection, noise attenuation, and support for heterogeneous agents. The paper is available here: PDF.
Evyatar presented the paper “Fiedler-Based Characterization and Identification of Leaders in Semi-Autonomous Networks” with Daniel Zelazo. The work studies how leader nodes in semi-autonomous consensus networks can be identified from observed agent dynamics using graph-theoretic properties of the Fiedler vector and relative tempo measurements. The paper is available here: PDF.
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It was wonderful to see former students representing the lab and sharing their research with the international control community.