Margaret P. Chapman
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Some of my published work is listed below. For a more complete list, please see my Google Scholar page. An underline specifies a student currently or formerly under my supervision.

Risk-Aware Control Theory

  • Chapman and Kalogerias, Risk-aware stability of linear systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025.

  • Arsenault and Chapman, Error analysis for approximate CVaR-optimal control with a maximum cost, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 2025.

  • Patel and Chapman, Risk-aware finite-horizon social optimal control of mean-field coupled linear-quadratic subsystems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024.

  • Chapman, Fauss, Smith, On optimizing the conditional value-at-risk of a maximum cost for risk-averse safety analysis, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023.

  • Wang and Chapman, Risk-averse autonomous systems: A brief history and recent developments from the perspective of optimal control, Artificial Intelligence, 2022.

  • Arsenault, Wang, Chapman, Toward scalable risk analysis for stochastic systems using extreme value theory, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022.

  • Chapman, Bonalli, Smith, Yang, Pavone, Tomlin, Risk-sensitive safety analysis using conditional value-at-risk, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022.

  • Wei, Fauss, Chapman, CVaR-based safety analysis in the infinite time horizon setting, American Control Conference, 2022.

Applications and Other Topics

  • Akella, Dixit, Ahmadi, Lindemann, Chapman, Pappas, Ames, Burdick, Risk-aware robotics: Tail risk measures in planning, control, and verification, IEEE Control Systems, 2025.

  • Chapman, Jensen, Chan, Lessard, Information-theoretic multi-time-scale partially observable systems with inspiration from leukemia treatment, Automatica, 2024.

  • Smith and Chapman, On exponential utility and conditional value-at-risk as risk-averse performance criteria, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2023.

  • Yeh and Chapman, A non-linear differentiable model for stormwater-based irrigation of a green roof in Toronto, IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, 2022.

Comments

  • Chapman & Smith 2021 [PDF], Chapman & Lessard 2021 [PDF]: The published articles omit almost-everywhere notions in statements about conditional expectations. Revised articles (see previous links) make such notions explicit.

  • A preliminary version of risk-aware safety analysis is described in Chapter 3 of Chapman, Risk-sensitive safety analysis and control for trustworthy autonomy, Ph.D. thesis, UC Berkeley, 2020. The theory of risk-aware safety analysis has been significantly revised in published work (Chapman, Bonalli, et al. 2022; Chapman, Fauss, Smith, 2023).