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News from
the lab.

New results, people, awards, events, and other moments from the Connect Lab community.

  1. New preprint from Fengyu Yue on transversal passivity

    A new framework for dissipation relative to input and output manifolds

  2. Giving a Seminar at the University of Stuttgart

    I will speak at the University of Stuttgart about a geometric theory of passivity for manifold-based control objectives.

  3. Invited Speaker at Rigidity Theory: Structures, Data, and Control

    Daniel Zelazo will be an invited speaker at the 2026 Rigidity Workshop at Lancaster University.

  4. Connect Lab at the 23rd IFAC World Congress

    Connect Lab students presented their research, and Daniel Zelazo spoke at a pre-congress workshop in Busan, Korea.

  5. Giving a Seminar at Lancaster University

    I will give a talk on formation control through group symmetries in Lancaster University's Pure Mathematics Seminar.

  6. Giving a Seminar Talk at the University of Washington

    I will speak at UW about a geometric theory of passivity for networked control systems.

  7. Gal Barkai and Evyatar Matmon present at ECC 2026

    Gal Barkai and Evyatar Matmon presented their work at the European Control Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.

  8. Connect Lab Lunch at Fairuz Restaurant and Cafe

    Lab lunch at Fairuz in Daliyat al-Karmel.

  9. Congratulations to Zamir on PhD Candidacy Exam!

    Zamir passed his PhD candidacy exam.

  10. Control-Affine Networks article published in IEEE Control Systems Letters

    Combinatorial Admissibility in Control-Affine Networks

  11. Transmission Zeros article published in IEEE Control Systems Letters

    The Geometry of Transmission Zeros in Distance-Based Formations

  12. Presentation at the American Control Conference 2026

    Formation Control via Rotation Symmetry Constraints

  13. Zamir Martinez and Solomon Goldgraber Casspi Present at AE Research Day

    CoNeCt Lab graduate students presented recent work in the faculty poster session

  14. Zamir Martinez Presents at the IAAC GSC

    Formation Control via Rotation Symmetry Constraints

  15. Extended abstract accepted to MTNS 2026

    Two-degrees of freedom consensus architecutres

  16. Two papers accepted to the IFAC World Congress 2026

    New results on formation control, symmetry, and geometric analysis in multi-agent systems

  17. Two papers accepted to the European Control Conference (ECC 2026)

    New results on agreement protocols and leader identification in networked systems

  18. Fengyu Yue presents her work at CDC2025!

    A Passivity Analysis for Nonlinear Consensus on Digraphs

  19. Congratulations to Evyatar Matmon!

    Evyatar passed his MSc Exam.

  20. Connect Lab BBQ!

    Social gathering at Carmel beach

  21. Congratulations to Solomon on PhD Candidacy Exam!

    Solomon passed his PhD candidacy exam.

  22. New paper on bearing-only formation control over directed graphs!

    To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

  23. Congratulations to Dr. Gal Barkai!

    Gal passed his PhD Exam.

  24. Organizing IFAC2026 Open Invited Track

    Advances in Rigidity Theory, Multi-Agent Formations, and Distributed Localization

  25. Giving a talk at TU Hamburg 30.7.25

    I will speak about symmetry-forced formation control.

  26. New paper on A Passivity Analysis for Nonlinear Consensus on Digraphs!

    To appear in the European Journal of Control

  27. Zamir Martinez presents his work at GSC2025!

    Symmetry-Constrained Formation Maneuvering

  28. Alex Vasilyev presents at the ME Research Project Day

    Alex presents his poster on formation control

  29. Fengyu Yue presents her work at ECC!

    A Passivity Analysis for Nonlinear Consensus on Balanced Digraphs

  30. Evyatar gives his MSc Thesis Seminar

    Evyatar presented his thesis work.

  31. Connect Lab at the AE Graduate Students Research Day

    Fengyu Yue and Zamir Martinez with posters of their research

  32. Gal Barkai giving a talk at the University of Melbourne

    Gal will present his work on Two Degrees-of-Freedom Architectures for Consensus

  33. Connect lab at the IAAC Control Conference

    Fengyu, Evyatar, and Gal presented their works

  34. Aviv Priel's article recognized as a Top Viewed Article by Wiley

    Event-Triggered Consensus Kalman Filtering Article Gains High Visibility

  35. Giving a talk at the University of Sydney 7.4.25

    I will speak about symmetry-forced formation control.

  36. Evyatar presented his work at the TASP research day

    Leader Identification in Semi-Autonomous Consensus Networks

  37. Zamir Martinez presents his work at IACAS!

    Symmetry-Constrained Formation Maneuvering

  38. Congratulations to Fengyu on PhD Candidacy Exam!

    Fengyu passed her PhD candidacy exam.

  39. Welcome Alexander and Arie to the group!

    Undergradaute students from Mechanical Engineering

  40. New paper on Symmetry Forced Formation Control!

    To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

  41. A great time at IEEE CDC in Milano!

    It was great to attend once again CDC.

  42. New paper on A Characterization of Passivizing Input-Output Transformations of Nonlinear MIMO Systems!

    To appear in the IEEE Control Systems Letters

  43. Giving a talk at Yale University 25.11.24

    I will speak about our recent results on symmetry forced formation control.

  44. Giving a talk at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 5.11.24

    I will speak about our recent results on feedback passivation.

  45. Congratulations to Jiacheng Shi on his MSc

    Bearing-only Formation Control with Directed Sensing

  46. We will present 2 papers at CDC in Milano!

    Find us in the Sampled-Data Control and Nonlinear Output Feedback sessions!

  47. ISF Grant on Formation Control over Directed Graphs

    A new 4-year grant trying to understand the complex problem of solving formation control with directed sensing.

  48. Connect Lab will host 3 international students for the summer

    Part of the Technion Summer Research Program.

  49. Our work at ECC2024 in Stockholm

    Gal Barkai is presenting his latest work at ECC in Stockholm - "An Emulation Approach to Output-Feedback Sampled-Data Synchronization”

  50. Welcome to the Connect Lab Website!

    We are finally online! Stay tuned for updates to our exciting research.