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Technical Lead: F.L.
Lewis, Ph.D. Moncrief-O’Donnell
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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 continuous-time systems Discrete Event Supervisory Control Intelligent Diagnostics and Prognostics Software
from sponsored research Labs Distributed Intelligence & Autonomy Lab (DIAL) Autonomous Systems Lab (UAV helicopters and UGV) |
RECENT
PRESENTATIONS
Online
Learning of Optimal Controllers for Continuous-Time systems, Asian Control
Conference ASCC, Hong Kong, Aug. 2009.
Adaptive dynamic programming and reinforcement learning for control
applications, Invited Workshop, Int. Symposium on ADP/RL, Nashville, April,
2009.
Adaptive Optimal
Control, Semi-Plenary Talk, IEEE Conf. Decision & Control, Cancun, Dec.
2008
Neuro
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 70th BD workshop, Oct. 2007
Adaptive
Dynamic programming for Continuous-Time systems, Mike Sain 70th
BD workshop, Oct. 2007
Adaptive
Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, plenary talk, Workshop on ADP/RL,
Hawaii, 2007.
Online Learning Design of Optimal Flight Controllers, Int.
Symp. Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics (ISSCAA 2010),
Harbin, China. June 2010.
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
Intelligent diagnostics
& prognostics for structural health monitoring, A-Star Data Storage
Institute, Singapore, Aug 2009.
Intelligent
Diagnostics & Prognostics, Fort Worth METROCON, 2007.
INFORMATION
FOR NEW STUDENTS APPLYING – Apply through Graduate Adviser, Dept. of
Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. Students:
- Abhijit Das, nonlinear
autopilots for UAV helicopters
- Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, neural
networks for feedback control
- Emanuel Stingu, autonomous
aerial vehicles, helicopters
- Mohammed
Abouheaf, nonlinear control of electric power systems
- Hongwei
Zhang, optimal control
- Erick
Trofimoff, nonlinear control systems
- Muhammad
Aurangzeb, trust-based control
- Kristian
Hengster-Movric, trust-based control
MS and U-Grad
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Chris McMurrough, U-Grad,
semiautonomous small disposable UAV
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Drew Morgan
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Anthony Sala
Former Ph.D. Students:
- Draguna
Vrabie, Neural Networks for Control- Approximate Dynamic Programming
for continuous-time systems
- 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)
Research
Supported by:
National Science Foundation
Army Research Office, Army National Automotive Center, TARDEC/RDECOM
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
ONR, NASA, and ARO SBIR Contracts
F.L. Lewis Professional Details-
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