Dr Morgan Jones
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Lecturer in Machine Learning and Control Theory
morgan.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5139
+44 114 222 5139
Amy Johnson Building
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Dr Morgan Jones
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 3JD
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Morgan Jones received the B.S. and Mmath in Mathematics from The University of Oxford, England in 2016. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU), USA in 2021. Currently, he is a lecturer in Machine Learning and Control Theory at the University of 91Ö±²¥, UK.
At Arizona State University Morgan was a member of Cybernetic Systems and Controls Laboratory (CSCL) from 2016 till 2021.
- Research interests
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Details of my research area:
- Dynamic programming, reinforcement learning, battery scheduling, path planning and obstacle avoidance.
- Optimal control: Developing convex optimization tools to solve the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) PDE.
- Nonlinear systems analysis: Approximating regions of attraction, maximal invariant sets, reachable sets and attractor sets.
- Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(17), 127-132.
- . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-8.
- . Journal of Computational Dynamics, 10(1), 48-74.
- . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 1-1.
- . Automatica, 127.
- . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(4), 1602-1617.
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), Vol. 49 (pp 2879-2884), 10 July 2024 - 12 July 2024.
- . 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), 31 May 2023 - 2 June 2023.
- . 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), 31 May 2023 - 2 June 2023.
- A Converse Sum of Squares Lyapunov Function for Outer Approximation of Minimal Attractor Sets of Nonlinear Systems
- . Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 2021-December (pp 5312-5319)
- . Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 2019-December (pp 2397-2404)
- . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 52(16) (pp 484-489)
- . Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Vol. 2019-July (pp 2084-2091)
- . 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017, Vol. 2018-January (pp 1323-1329)
- . 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017, Vol. 2018-January (pp 1796-1802)
Preprints
- Approximate Projections onto the Positive Semidefinite Cone Using Randomization.
- Model Predictive Bang-Bang Controller Synthesis via Approximate Value Functions.
- Learning Polynomial Representations of Physical Objects with Application to Certifying Correct Packing Configurations.
- Sublevel Set Approximation in The Hausdorff and Volume Metric with Application to Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance.
- Existence of Partially Quadratic Lyapunov Functions That Can Certify The Local Asymptotic Stability of Nonlinear Systems.
- Combining Trajectory Data with Analytical Lyapunov Functions for Improved Region of Attraction Estimation.
- Converse Lyapunov Functions and Converging Inner Approximations to Maximal Regions of Attraction of Nonlinear Systems.
- Polynomial Approximation of Value Functions and Nonlinear Controller Design with Performance Bounds.
- A Generalization of Bellman's Equation with Application to Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance and Invariant Set Estimation.
- Relaxing The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation To Construct Inner And Outer Bounds On Reachable Sets.
- Using SOS and Sublevel Set Volume Minimization for Estimation of Forward Reachable Sets.
- Extensions of the Dynamic Programming Framework: Battery Scheduling, Demand Charges, and Renewable Integration.
- Using SOS for Optimal Semialgebraic Representation of Sets: Finding Minimal Representations of Limit Cycles, Chaotic Attractors and Unions.
- A Dynamic Programming Approach to Evaluating Multivariate Gaussian Probabilities.
- Solving Dynamic Programming with Supremum Terms in the Objective and Application to Optimal Battery Scheduling for Electricity Consumers Subject to Demand Charges.
- Teaching interests
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2022: ACS234 Systems Engineering Mathematics II