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Panos J. Antsaklis
Department of
Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: +1 (574) 631-5792
Fax: +1 (574) 631-4393
antsaklis.1@nd.edu
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Panos J. Antsaklis is the H.C. and E.A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, Concurrent Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Concurrent Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame. His research addresses problems of control and automation and examines ways to design engineering systems that will exhibit high degree of autonomy in performing useful tasks.
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
www.nd.edu/~ieeetac
Elizabeth Kovacs, Editorial Assistant
Kaylee Hull, Administrative Assistant
Phone: +1 (574) 631-4606
ieeetac@nd.edu
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Recent Updates and Highlights
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Honorary doctorate from the French university, l'Université de Lorraine
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Control of CPS Workshop
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Faculty Recognition Award at Notre Dame
- Recognized on the field (20-yard line) at the ND vs. Boston College game, November 19, 2011
- In front of 85,000 football fans
- Presented with a signed football by Provost Tom Burish.
- Game Day Program
- Public Announcement
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2011.
He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS (2011) for distinguished contributions to the field of Systems and Control, particularly for feedback control of multi-variable systems, intelligent, hybrid and discrete event systems.
Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.
Each year the Council elects members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.
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Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2010.
He is Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC (2010) for fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession.
The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator.
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Quest for Autonomy Revisited
See also: Quest for Autonomy
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Fundamental Characteristics of Feedback Mechanisms
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Interviews, Remarks, and Photos
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Interview by Natalie Bakopoulos of the University of Michigan. Special to the National Herald, the Greek-American Newspaper.
The interview appeared in the 2010 Christmas Issue of The National Herald, Issue #689, pp. 1 & 4, December 25-31, 2010.
Interview TNH Dec25-31 2010, p1-4 - newspaper format
Interview TNH Dec25-31 2010 - single column format
Interview TNH - Greek Translation
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Interview by Anna Grimani, Patridognosia Column Editor
Kathimerini (Greek Newspaper), Patridognosia column, August 29, 2010
Interview KathimeriniGr - in Greek
Interview KathimeriniEn - English Translation
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Interview by Dennis Bernstein, CSM Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol.30, No.6, pp 44-46, December 2010
Interview CSM Dec 2010
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Interview for the textbook: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems by Edward A. Lee and Pravin Varaiya, Addison Wesley, 2003. It appeared on pages 83-84.
Kathimerini (Greek Newspaper), Patridognosia column, August 29, 2010
Interview - in Lee & Varaiya Book
Interview - in Lee & Varaiya Book - Full Text
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Remarks at the Award ceremony of the 2006 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal
May 27, 2006
Remarks - BEAM 2006
Photo slides used at the ceremony
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Remarks at the Investiture of the Brosey Chair
October 16, 2002
Remarks - Brosey Investiture
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Interview of the CSS President-Elect. Title: "Introducing the CSS President-Elect," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 60-63, August 1996/
Interview CSM August 1996
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Interview of the General Chair of the 1995 CDC. Title: "1995 CDC Heads to New Orleans," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol14, No.5, pp. 7-8, October 1994.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 60-63, August 1996.
Interview CSM October 1994
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Panos J. Antsaklis | Biographical Information |
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Panos J. Antsaklis
Department of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
46556
Phone: +1 (574) 631-5792 Fax: +1 (574) 631-4393
antsaklis.1@nd.edu
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Panos J. Antsaklis is the H.Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Notre Dame. He also is Concurrent Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering and in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and
Statistics. He served as the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of
Notre Dame from 1999 to 2005.
He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and holds MS and PhD
degrees from Brown University.
He joined Notre Dame in 1980 after holding faculty positions at Brown University, Rice University,
and Imperial College of the University of London, England. During sabbatical leaves he has lectured
and conducted research at MIT, Imperial College, NTUA and the Technical University of Crete,
Greece.
His current research focuses on Cyber Physical Networked Embedded Systems and addresses problems in
the interdisciplinary research area of Control, Computing and Communication Networks, and on Hybrid
and Discrete Event Dynamical Systems. His research addresses problems of control and automation and
examines ways to design engineering systems that will exhibit high degree of autonomy in performing
useful tasks. Application areas include transportation, manufacturing, and chemical process systems,
as well as computer and communication networks. His work includes analysis of behavior based on
mathematical models and design of control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent, learning
and reconfigurable systems. His research (See
Research for details) is funded by federal agencies (NSF, ARO, DARPA) and companies.
He has published extensively in the area of systems and control, in linear feedback systems,
autonomous intelligent control systems, discrete event and hybrid systems, in networked control
systems and in cyber-physical systems. See Publications
for details. He has authored two graduate textbooks, "Linear Systems" (McGraw-Hill 1997 and
Birkhauser 2006, with A.N. Michel).and "A Linear Systems Primer" (Birkhauser 2007, with A.N.
Michel), and two research monographs, "Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri
Nets" (Kluwer Academic 1998; with J. Moody) and "Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri
Net Structural Approach" (Birkhauser 2006, with M.V. Iordache). He has edited six books: "An
Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control" (Kluwer Academic 1993; with K. Passino), "Hybrid
Systems II" & "Hybrid Systems IV" (Springer-Verlag 1995 and 1997; with W. Kohn, A. Nerode and S.
Sastry), "Hybrid Systems V" (Springer-Verlag 1999; with W. Kohn, M. Lemmon, A. Nerode, and S.
Sastry), "Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications: A Tribute to A.N. Michel"
(Birkhauser 2003; with D. Liu), and . "Networked Embedded Sensing and Control: Workshop NESC'05
Proceedings" (Birkhauser 2006, with P. Tabuada). See Books for more information.
He was Guest Editor of the IEEE TAC Special Issue on Networked Control Systems (with John
Baillieul, September 2004) and of the Special Issue on Networked Control Systems Technology of the
Proceedings of the IEEE (with John Baillieul, January 2007). He was Guest Editor of special issues
on Hybrid Control Systems in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (with A. Nerode; 1998), in
the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (with M. Lemmon; 1998), and the Guest Editor of the
Special Issue on Hybrid Systems in the Proceedings of the IEEE in July 2000. He was the Guest Editor
of the 1990 and 1992 Special Issues on "Neural Networks in Control Systems" of the IEEE Control
Systems magazine (CSM) and the Guest Editor of the 1995 Special Issue on "Intelligence and Learning"
in the IEEE CSM. See Special Issues for more information.
He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). See
the TAC website for more
information. He previously served as Associate Editor at Large and as Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and of several other journals, and as an Editor of the IEE Control Engineering Book Series.
He currently serves as the President of the Mediterranean Control Association. See MCA for more
information. At Notre Dame he currently serves in several committees including Committees of the
Academic Council of the University. See
Administration at Notre Dame for more information.
He was the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the 1996 CSS
President-Elect, Vice President-Conferences in 1994 and 1995, an elected member of the CSS Board of
Governors 1991-1996, and the General Chair of the 1995 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
(CDC) in New Orleans. He was the Program Chair of the 30th IEEE CDC in England in 1991, and he has
served as the General Chair of the 1993 8th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control in
Chicago. He served as the IEEE Director and Alternate Director of the American Automatic Control
Council, the U.S. National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control
from 1994 to 1997. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Fuzzy and Neural Systems of the
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 1999-2002. He was the Honorary Chair of the
1996 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Automation in Crete, Greece (MED96), of the
2008 16th MED in Corsica, France (MED08) and of the 2010 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control
and Automation in Marrakesh, Morocco (MED'10). He was General co-Chair of the 8th and 15th MED in
2000 and 2007. He was the International Program Committee Chair for the 2007 European Control
Conference. See Professional
Activities.
He serves as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik
Komplexer Technischer Systeme, Magdeburg, Germany where he has been a SAB member since 2002. In
2006-2007 he was member of the subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology of the
President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST), that advises the President of
the United States on Science and Technology federal policy issues regarding technology, scientific
research priorities, and math and science education. See Awards and Recognitions.
He is the recipient of the 2006 Engineering Alumni Medal ( BEAM) of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
He has been plenary and keynote speaker in a number of conferences and research workshops, and he is the recipient of several teaching awards at the University of Notre Dame.
He is IEEE Fellow (1991) for his contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient.
He is Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC, (2010) for fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession.
He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS (2011) for distinguished contributions to the field of Systems and Control, particularly for feedback control of multi-variable systems, intelligent, hybrid and discrete event systems.
He was recognized on the field (20-yard line) at the Notre Dame vs. Boston College game on November 19, 2011, in front of 85,000 football fans and was presented with a signed football by Provost Tom Burish.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by the University of Lorraine, France in 2012.
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Graduate Students
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Fall 2012
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From left to right: Feng Zhu (China), Mike McCourt (USA), Vahideh Ghanbari (Iran), Meng Xia (China). Han (Cherry) Yu (China), Po Wu (China), Getachew Befekadu (Research Professor, Ethiopia)
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Fall 2011
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From left to right: Eloy Garcia (Mexico), Po Wu (China), Yue Wang (Post-doc, China), Antsaklis, Han (Cherry) Yu (China), Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Feng Zhu (China), Mike McCourt (USA)
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October 2010
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From left to right: Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China), Eloy Garcia (Mexico), Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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What it takes to be an ND graduate student!
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Po Wu (China), Feng Zhu (China), Han (Cherry) Yu (China) , Eloy Garcia (Mexico) , Antsaklis, Getachew Befekadu (Post-doc, Ethiopia), Mike McCourt (USA)
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September 2004
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From left to right: Sitting: Erez Abittan (France), Manolis Sifakis (France), Hui Fang (China), Lei Fang (China); Standing: Luis Montestruque (Peru), Nicholas Kottenstette (USA), Anastasis Tzimas (Hellas), Tomas Estrada (Costa Rica), Hai Lin (China)
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September 2002
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From left to right: Hui Fang, Luis Montestruque, Vishwani Silochan, Hai Lin, Ioannis Koutroulis, Lei Fang, and Marian Iordache
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Hui Fang, Luis Montestruque, Vishwani Silochan, Hai Lin, Ioannis Koutroulis, Lei Fang, and Marian Iordache
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From left to right: John Moody, Ioannis Konstantopoulos, Dr. Xiaojun Yang (Visitor), Xenofon Koutsoukos,and Jim Stiver
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Current Students
Vahideh Ghanbari
Research Topic: Dissipativity and Passivity in circuits and port Hamiltonian systems. Ph.D.
BSEE, Azad University, July 2007.
Michael McCourt
Research Topic: Passivity in Hybrid Control Systems. Ph.D.
BSEE, University of Washington, June 2007.
Po Wu
Research Topic: Symmetries and Regularities in Distributed Control Systems. Ph.D.
BS Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, July 2007.
Meng Xia
Research Topic: Networked Control Systems and Passivity. Ph.D.
MS Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, July 2010.
BS Information and Computational Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, July 2008.
Feng Zhu
Research Topic: DES and Hybrid Control Systems. Ph.D.
BS Automatic Control, Harbin Institute of Technology, July 2008.
Former Students
Han (Cherry) Yu (GE Global Research)
Website
Ph.D. January 2013, "Passivity and Dissipativity as Design and Analysis Tools for Networked Control Systems"
BS Measuring and Control Technology and Instruments, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, June 2007.
Eloy Garcia (InfoSciTex Corp. Dayton, Ohio)
Website
Ph.D. June 2012, "Model-Based Control over Networks: Architecture and Performance"
MSEE, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2006.
BSEE, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, June 2003.
Matthew Zyskowski (Ronald Diersing co-advisor, MK Sain Original Advisor)
Hamilton Sundstrand, Electric Systems
Website
Ph.D. December 2010, "Cost Density-Shaping for Stochastic Optimal Control."
MSEE, University of Pennsylvania, May 2006.
BSEE Mathematics, Drexel University, December 2003.
Tomas Estrada, Ph.D.
Elizabethtown College, PA
Website
Ph.D. May 2009. "Model-Based Networked Control Systems with Intermittent Feedback."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2005.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2002, University of Costa Rica.
Hui Fang, Ph.D.
JP Morgan-Chase, NYC
Ph.D. January 2008. "Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems with Information Flow Constraints."
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2006.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2001, University of Science and Technology of China.
Nicholas Kottenstette, Ph.D.
Principal Robotic Control Systems Engineer, Corindus Vascular Robotics, Natick, MA
(Previously) Department of EE&CS, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Website
Ph.D. August 2007. "Control of Passive Plants with Memoryless Nonlinearities over Wireless Networks."
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1995, Catholic University of America.
Lei Fang, Ph.D.
Magnetar Capital LLC, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. August 2006. "Control of Distributed Systems with Interconnection Constraints."
M.S., 1999, University of Macau. M.S., 2002, University of Connecticut.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1996, Zhejiang University.
Anastasios Tzimas, M.S.
Siemens, Athens, Greece
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006.
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nov. 2003, National Technical University of Athens.
Emmanuel Sifakis, M.S.
Tradition
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006. "Routing Protocols for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control."
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, Dec. 2005, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite-Supelec.
Erez Abittan, M.S.
Bearing Point, New York, NY
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006. "Model-Based Approach for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks."
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, Dec. 2005, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite-Supelec.
Hai Lin, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Website
Ph.D. August 2005. "Robust Analysis and Synthesis of Uncertain Linear Hybrid Systems with Networked Control Applications."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2002, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
B.S. 1997, University of Science and Technology.
Luis Montestruque, M.S., Ph.D.
EmNet LLC, Granger, IN; EmNet
Ph.D. January 2005. "Model-Based Networked Control Systems."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2001.
B.S. 1997, Pontificia University Catholica, Peru.
Ioannis E. Koutroulis, M.S.
Solutia Business Innovations Ltd, Athens, Greece
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, January 2004.
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2002, University of Patras, Greece.
Marian V. Iordache, M.S., Ph.D.
School of Engineering and Engineering Technology
LeTourneau University, Longview, TX
Website
Ph.D. January 2004. "Methods for the Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems Based on Petri Net Abstractions."
M.S. May 1999. "Deadlock Prevention in Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering--Microsystems, 1997, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.
Diploma in Electronics and Computing Systems, 1996, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.
Vishwani Silochan, M.S.
Bechtel, Trinidad and Tobago
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2002.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Summer 2001, Louisiana State University.
Xuping Xu, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
California Baptist University, Riverside, CA
Ph.D. July 2001."Analysis and Design of Switched Systems."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1999. M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 2000.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 1995, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Ph.D.
Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D. October 2000. "Explicit Rate Congestion Control for Data Networks."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1996.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 1992, University of Michigan.
Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Website
Ph.D. July 2000. "Analysis and Design of Piecewise Linear Hybrid Dynamical Systems."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1998. M.S. in Applied Mathematics, 1998.
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1993, National Technical University of Athens.
Jean-Kesney Auguste, M.S.
BAE Systems Controls
M.S. May 1999. "Modeling and Hinf Control of a Hot Strip Steel Mill."
B.S. May 1992, Boston University.
John O. Moody, M.S., Ph.D.
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Owego, NY
Ph.D. May 1998. "Petri Net Supervisors for Discrete Event Systems."
M.S. May 1993. "A New Method for Constructing and Training Neural Networks."
B.S. May 1991, University of Notre Dame.
Ioannis K. Konstantopoulos, M.S., Ph.D.
DEH, Athens, Greece
Ph.D. January 1996. "Optimal Controller Design and Reconfigurable Control Under Stability Robustness."
M.S. November 1992. "Controller Design with Failure Diagnostic Capabilities Using Neural Networks."
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1989, National Technical University of Athens.
James. A. Stiver, M.S., Ph.D.
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL
Ph.D. May 1995. "Analysis and Design of Hybrid Control Systems."
M.S. May 1991. "Modeling of Hybrid Control Systems Using Discrete Event System Models."
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 1989, University of Notre Dame.
Zugang Hou, M.S.
M.S. May 1992. "Analysis of Automotive Powertrain Dynamics Using Neural Networks."
B.S. May 1982, Shandong University of Technology.
Michael A. Sartori, M.S., Ph.D.
Venable LLP, Washington, DC
Website
Ph.D. May 1991. "Neural Networks and their Application to the Control of Systems."
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1989.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 1987, University of Notre Dame.
Zhiqiang Gao, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Website
Ph.D. August 1990. "Reconfigurable Control Systems: Analysis and Design."
M.S. August 1987. "Model Matching and Related Control Problems: Conditions and Algorithms."
B.S. January 1984, Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications.
Mark D. Peek, M.S.
TellLabs
M.S. September 1989. "Machine Learning of Parameter Values for System Performance Adaptation."
B.S. 1985, University of Notre Dame.
Kevin M. Passino, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Website
Ph.D. May 1989. "Analysis and Synthesis of Discrete Event Regulator Systems."
M.S. Jan. 1985. "Reconstruction Methods and the Zeros of Sampled Systems."
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, January 1983, Tri-State University.
Oscar R. Gonzalez, M.S., Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Website
Ph.D. August 1987. "Analysis and Synthesis of Two Degrees of Freedom Control Systems."
M.S. May 1984. "Regulation Problem with Internal Stability (RPIS): Compensator Structure and Internal Models."
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, January 1982, University of Idaho.
Donald P. McLane, M.S.
Institute of Technology
University of Washington, Tacoma WA
Website
M.S. January 1987. "Discrete System Identification in the Frequency Domain via Least Squares."
B.S. January 1981, Indiana University South Bend.
Rodolfo F. Lopez, M.S.
Nicaragua
M.S. May 1984. "Multivariable Control Design Via Polynomial Interpolation Methods."
Students from Computing and Control and Electrical Engineering,
Imperial College, London, England
Kevin Warwick (Ph.D. under John Westcott)
School of Systems Engineering, Cybernetics
University of Reading, Reading, England
Website
Trevor W. Williams, Ph.D.
NASA Goddard Center
Formerly, University of Cincinnati, Aeronautics
Ph.D. 1981. "Inverse and Decoupling Problems in Linear Systems."
Jo?Jos?antos Sentieiro, M.S.
Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, Lisbon
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Website
M.S. 1980. "On the Flexibility Offered by State Feedback Compensation."
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Antsaklis Feedback Lab @ ND (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Lab for the Study of Feedback in
Dynamical Systems Across Disciplines
The goal is to study Feedback as it occurs in natural and man-made dynamical systems. Here the
term Feedback refers not only to sensing and sending or feeding back the actual state of the
system or a function of the actual state; but also to processing the information to decide in a
decision and control mechanism or controller what action is needed; and finally implementing that
decision as a control action on the system via actuators. All these are captured in the term
Feedback Control where Control is understood in its most general sense, that is controlling a
system to behave in a desired way.
Systems that typically use Feedback Control include:
- Biological Systems
- Physical, Environmental, Ecological Systems
- Social and Economic Systems
- Political Systems
- Manufacturing Systems
- Communication Systems
- Transportation Systems (space, air, ground, surface, underwater vehicles)
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