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A Distributed Luenberger Observer for Linear State Feedback Systems With Quantized and Rate-Limited Communications

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, Ye Pu, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This article addresses the problem of simultaneous distributed state estimation, and control of linear systems with linear state feedback, subjected to process, and measurement noise, under the constraints of quantized, and rate-limited network data transm ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Photoinitiator-free multi-photon fabrication of compact optical waveguides in polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

Compact, low loss flexible optical waveguides are crucial in optofluidic and microfluidic devices for a dense integration of optical functionalities. We demonstrate the fabrication of compact optical waveguides in polydimethylsiloxane through multiphoton l ...

2019

Imaging hair cells through laser-ablated cochlear bone

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Marilisa Romito

We report an innovative technique for the visualization of cells through an overlying scattering medium by combining femtosecond laser bone ablation and two-photon excitation fluorescence (TPEF) microscopy. We demonstrate the technique by imaging hair cell ...

2019

SVR-AMA: An Asynchronous Alternating Minimization Algorithm With Variance Reduction for Model Predictive Control Applications

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu

This paper focuses on the design of an asynchronous dual solver suitable for model predictive control (MPC) applications. The proposed solver relies on a state-of-the-art variance reduction (VR) scheme, previously used in the context of proximal stochastic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Tomographic imaging with harmonic holography in tissues of known refractive index distribution

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu

High-resolution imaging in thick biological tissues beyond a few transport mean free path of photons remains a formidable challenge to modern science and technology. Recent advancements in optical tomography have enabled the reconstruction of the three-dim ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Photoinitiator-free Laser Fabrication of Ultra-compact, Low-loss Waveguides in Polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

Owing to its excellent elasticity, wide spectral range of transparency, and outstanding chemical and thermal stability, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an elastomer of great technological importance, being widely used in the fabrication of microfluidic and ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Efficient Solar-vapor Generation in Hollow-mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Thomas La Grange, Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Ye Pu, Marcin Stefan Zielinski, Miguel Antonio Modestino

Plasmonic nanostructures have shown great promise in solar thermal applications. Here we report highly efficient solar vapor generation using hollow-mesoporous plasmonic nanoshells, where the steam production is significantly enhanced by the extended activ ...

IEEE2018

Multi-Photon Fabrication of Ultra-compact Optical Waveguides in Polydimethylsiloxane

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu, Giulia Panusa, Jieping Wang

We report the fabrication of ultra-compact flexible optical waveguides in polydimethylsiloxane through multiphoton direct laser writing, for the first time without a photoinitiator. A transmission loss of 0.03 dB/cm was measured in the 650-700 nm band. ...

IEEE2018

Optical proximity sensing system for atraumatic cochea implant surgery

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu

The design of a proximity sensor to be integrated into cochlea implants is described. The sensor allows the anticipation of contact between the cochlear implant and intracochlear structures, including the cochlear canal wall and basilar membrane, providing ...

2017

Complexity Certification of the Fast Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Linear MPC

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

In this technical note, the fast alternating minimization algorithm (FAMA) is proposed to solve model predictive control (MPC) problems with polytopic and second-order cone constraints. Two splitting strategies with efficient implementations for MPC proble ...

2017

Quantization Design for Distributed Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbors and the channel has a limited data-rate. A co ...

2017

Hollow Mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells for Enhanced Solar Vapor Generation

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Thomas La Grange, Demetri Psaltis, Jae-Woo Choi, Ye Pu, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Ye Pu, Marcin Stefan Zielinski, Miguel Antonio Modestino

In the past decade, nanomaterials have made their way into a variety of technologies in solar energy, enhancing the performance by taking advantage of the phenomena inherent to the nanoscale. Recent examples exploit plasmonic core/shell nanoparticles to ac ...

American Chemical Society2016

Second-harmonic radiating imaging probes and harmonic holography

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Ye Pu

Compared with other imaging probes such as fluorescent dyes and quantum dots, second-harmonic radiating imaging probes (SHRIMPs) provide a unique ultrafast, coherent optical contrast that is free of photobleaching and emission intermittency. Using the seco ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Two-dimensional polymeric structures and method for producing thereof

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Ye Pu, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

The present invention relates to polymeric structures, in the form of flat membrane-like surfaces or micro- nanostructures such as capsules, characterized in that it comprises a substantially two-dimensional layer of covalently-bonded monomers of R-substit ...

2016

Operator Splitting Methods in Control

Georgios Stathopoulos, Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Harsh Ambarishkumar Shukla

2016

Splitting Methods for Distributed Optimization and Control

Ye Pu

This thesis contributes towards the design and analysis of fast and distributed optimization algorithms based on splitting techniques, such as proximal gradient methods or alternation minimization algorithms, with the application of solving model predictiv ...

EPFL2016

Design of a Distributed Quantized Luenberger Filter for Bounded Noise

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, Ye Pu, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This paper addresses the problem of distributed state estimation for linear systems with process and measurement noise, in the case of limited communication data rate, where the data exchanged between agents is quantized. We propose a linear distributed Lu ...

Ieee2016

Quantization Design for Unconstrained Distributed Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We consider an unconstrained distributed optimization problem and assume that the bit rate of the communication in the network is limited. We propose a distributed optimization algorithm with an iteratively refining quantization design, which bounds the qu ...

2015

Quantization design for distributed optimization with time-varying parameters

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

2015

A consensus algorithm for networks with process noise and quantization error

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, Ye Pu, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

In this paper we address the problem of quantized consensus where process noise or external inputs corrupt the state of each agent at each iteration. We propose a quantized consensus algorithm with progressive quantization, where the quantization interval ...

IEEE2015