Dr. Jean-Jacques Slotine
Dr. Jean-Jacques Slotine received his Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1983. After working at Bell Labs in the
computer research department, in 1984 he joined the faculty at MIT,
where he is now Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information
Sciences, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Director of
the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory.
His main research interests are in robotics and systems neuroscience.
He is the author of several textbooks, notably
Applied Nonlinear
Control which is generally considered a classic
in the field and has been translated in several languages.
Jean-Jacques coauthored
Robot Analysis and Control,
Adaptive
Tracking Control for Robots with Unknown Kinematic and Dynamic
Properties in The International
Journal of Robotics Research,
Contraction
Analysis of Time-Delayed Communications
Using Simplified Wave Variables in IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control,
Discrete Nonlinear Observers for Inertial Navigation in
Systems and Control Letters, and
Fast Computation with Neural Oscillators in
Neurocomputing.
Read his full
list of publications!
From 1996 to 2001 he was the youngest member of the French National
Science Council, the scientific advisory board to the Prime
Minister. His patents include “Telerobotic System”, U.S. Patent Number
5266875, “Stable Adaptive Neural Network Controller and Recursive
Identifier”,
U.S. Patent Number 5268834,
“Haptic Teleoperation on the Internet”, U.S. Patent Number 6144884,
“Controllers for Nonlinear Chemical Processes”, German Patent, and
“Observers for Nonlinear Chemical Processes”, German Patent.
Jean-Jacques was the peer expert reader in the fields of brain and
cognitive science for the 2005 Ray Kurzweil book
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend
Biology.