Technical Lead: F.L. Lewis, Ph.D.
            Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC
            PE Texas, Chartered Engineer U.K. Eng. Council
            University Distinguished Scholar Professor
            Senior Fellow, Automation & Robotics Research Institute
                                    lewis@uta.edu

            Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair
                        2004 annual report
                        2005 annual report
                        2006 annual report
                        2007 annual report

Research Areas:

Intelligent Nonlinear Control

Neural network feedback control

Hamilton Jacobi equation solution using neural networks

Optimal control for nonlinear systems

H-infinity (game theory) control

Approximate Dynamic Programming

ADP for discrete time systems

Policy Iteration for continuous-time systems

ADP for continuous-time systems

Discrete Event Supervisory Control

For robotic assembly cells

For wireless sensor networks

Intelligent Diagnostics and Prognostics

Labs

Distributed Intelligence & Autonomy Lab (DIAL)

Autonomous Systems Lab (UAV helicopters and UGV)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Wireless Sensor Networks, Inst. Infocom Research & NTU, Singapore, March 2006
Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues, Advances, Open Problems, CIS-RAM Conference Bangkok, June 2006
Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, plenary talk, Workshop on ADP/RL, Hawaii, 2007.
Intelligent Diagnostics & Prognostics, Fort Worth METROCON, 2007.
Adaptive Dynamic programming for Continuous-Time systems, Mike Sain 70^th BD workshop, Oct. 2007

INFORMATION FOR NEW STUDENTS APPLYING – Apply through Graduate Adviser, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. Students:

Draguna Vrabie, Neural Networks for Control- Approximate Dynamic Programming for continuous-time systems
Prasanna Ballal, Wireless Sensor Networks
Emanuel Stingu, autonomous aerial vehicles, helicopters
Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, neural networks for feedback control
Abhijit Das, nonlinear autopilots for UAV helicopters

MS and U-Grad students:

· Chris McMurrough, U-Grad, semiautonomous small disposable UAV

· Matt Middleton, U-Grad, semiautonomous small disposable UAV

· Rushikesh Khasqiwale, MS, Vision processing and SLAM for UAV/UGV

Former Ph.D. Students:

Pritpal Dang, Man-Machine Interface
J. Gadewadikar, H-infinity control, output feedback control, helicopter UAV control
Asma AL-Tamimi, Approximate Dynamic Programming for discrete-time systems
M. Abu-Khalaf, Nonlinear Control and HJB Equation Design
B. Borovic, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
J. Mireles, Intelligent Robot Control, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)