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Morse's work has focused on control using logic-based switching, on hybrid systems, robotics and computer vision, and in the design of uninhabited air and underwater vehicles and other mobile autonomous vehicles. In 1999, he and former Yale colleague Peter Belhumeur were awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation for their project exploring coordinated motion. For this work, they filmed video images of the movement of schools of fish in order to examine how autonomous underwater vehicles might be designed to move in a coordinated manner. Their goal is to engineer a vehicle that can function without remote control.
Morse was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to geometric theory, adaptive control and the stability of hybrid systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 technical or scientific papers and articles in his field and has won several awards for these, including two awards for best technical paper from the Automatic Control Conference and the 1993 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. The same article that won Morse the Axelby Award was cited by the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society as one of the most influential papers published in the field of automatic control in the 20th century. He was also the recipient of the 2002 Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award.
Morse joined the Yale faculty in 1970 after serving as a research scientist in the Office of Control Theory and Application at the NASA Electronics Research Center (ERC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. at Cornell University, a M.S. at the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. at Purdue University. After obtaining his doctorate, he was a captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the NASA/ERC Office of Control Theory and Application.
Morse has held a number of named and distinguished lectureships at other universities, and he has been a visiting faculty at schools in Canada, Italy, Australia and the United States.
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