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

Adaptive Optimal Control, Semi-Plenary Talk, IEEE Conf. Decision & Control, Cancun, Dec. 2008
Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) for continuous-time systems, Int. Conf. Intelligent Control, Shanghai, Sept. 2008
Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) for discrete-time systems, Bill Wolovich 70 BD Workshop, Cancun, Dec. 2008
Notes on Optimal Control, Mike Athans 70^th BD workshop, Oct. 2007
Adaptive Dynamic programming for Continuous-Time systems, Mike Sain 70^th BD workshop, Oct. 2007
Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, plenary talk, Workshop on ADP/RL, Hawaii, 2007.

Flight Control for UAV: helicopter platform control and cooperative formation discrete event control, 2008

Discrete Event Decision & Control Using a Matrix Framework, IEEE Conf. Industrial Electronics & Applications, Singapore, June 2008.
Discrete Event Control Framework and deadlock in Petri nets, Workshop on Petri nets and Agile Manufacturing, Xian, June 2008.

Wireless Sensor Network Applications in UAV Helicopters and Intelligent Diagnostics, IDGA Military Conf, Washington DC, May 2008
Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues, Advances, Open Problems, CIS-RAM Conference Bangkok, June 2006
Wireless Sensor Networks, Inst. Infocom Research & NTU, Singapore, March 2006

Intelligent Diagnostics & Prognostics, Fort Worth METROCON, 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
Emanuel Stingu, autonomous aerial vehicles, helicopters
Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, neural networks for feedback control
Abhijit Das, nonlinear autopilots for UAV helicopters
Mohammed Abouheaf, nonlinear control of electric power systems
Xiaodong Zhao, Adaptive dynamic programming

MS and U-Grad students:

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

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

· Vishal Coelho, localization system for UAV/UGV in urban environments

Former Ph.D. Students:

Prasanna Ballal, Wireless Sensor Networks
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
Cheng Tao, finite horizon optimal control for nonlinear systems
M. Abu-Khalaf, Nonlinear Control and HJB Equation Design
B. Borovic, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
J. Mireles, Intelligent Robot Control, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)