F. L. Lewis,
Ph.D.
Fellow IEEE, Fellow
IFAC, Fellow U.K. Inst. MC
Professional
Engineer Texas, Chartered Engineer
U.K.
Moncrief-O'Donnell
Endowed Chair
University Distinguished Scholar Professor
Senior
Fellow, Automation & Robotics Research Institute
Ph.D. Georgia Tech. 1981
M.S. Univ. West Fla. 1977
M.E.E. Rice University
1971
B.A. Rice University
1971
Areas of
Expertise: Feedback control systems, intelligent adaptive systems, neural
networks for control, discrete event systems, nonlinear process control, optimal
and robust control, wireless sensor networks, robotics, manufacturing dispatching
and control
Dr.
Lewis was born in Würzburg,
Germany, subsequently
studying in Chile and Gordonstoun School
in Scotland. He obtained the Bachelor's Degree in
Physics/Electrical Engineering and the Master's of Electrical Engineering Degree
at Rice University in 1971. He spent six years in the U.S. Navy, serving as Navigator aboard the frigate USS Trippe
(FF-1075), and Executive Officer and
Acting Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan (ATF-161). In 1977 he received the Master's of Science
in Aeronautical Engineering from the University
of West Florida. In 1981 he obtained the Ph.D. degree at The
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he was employed as a professor from 1981 to
1990. He is a Professor of Electrical
Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, where he was awarded the Moncrief-O'Donnell
Endowed Chair in 1990 at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute. Fellow of the IEEE,
Fellow of IFAC, Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Measurement
& Control, Member
of the New York Academy of Sciences. Registered
Professional Engineer in the State of Texas
and Chartered Engineer, U.K.
Engineering Council. Charter Member
(2004) of the UTA
Academy of Distinguished
Scholars and Senior Research Fellow of the Automation & Robotics Research
Institute. Founding Member of the Board
of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association. Has served as Visiting Professor at Democritus University
in Greece, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
City University of Hong Kong, National
University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Elected Guest Consulting
Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and South China
University of Technology.
Current interests include
intelligent control, distributed
control on graphs, neural and fuzzy
systems, wireless sensor networks, nonlinear systems,
robotics, condition-based
maintenance, micro-electro-mechanical
systems (MEMS) control, and
manufacturing process control. Author of
6 U.S. patents, 216 journal papers, 44 chapters and encyclopedia articles, 330 refereed conference papers, and 14 books including Optimal Control, Optimal
Estimation, Applied Optimal Control
and Estimation, Aircraft Control and
Simulation, Control of Robot
Manipulators, Neural Network Control, High-Level Feedback Control with Neural Networks
and the IEEE reprint volume Robot Control.
Editor of Taylor & Francis Book Series on
Automation & Control Engineering. Served/serves on many Editorial Boards including International
Journal of Control, Neural
Computing and Applications, Optimal Control & Methods, and Int. J. Intelligent Control Systems. Served as Editor for the flagship journal Automatica. Recipient of NSF Research Initiation Grant
and continuously funded by NSF since 1982.
Since 1991 he has received $7 million in funding from NSF, ARO,
AFOSR and other government agencies,
including significant DoD SBIR and industry funding. His SBIR program was instrumental in ARRI’s
receipt of the US SBA Tibbets Award
in 1996. Received Fulbright Research
Award 1988, American Society of
Engineering Education F.E. Terman Award 1989,
Int. Neural Network Soc. Gabor Award
2009, U.K. Inst Measurement &
Control Honeywell Field Engineering Medal
2009, three Sigma Xi Research
Awards, UTA Halliburton Engineering
Research Award, UTA Distinguished
Research Award, ARRI Patent Awards, various Best Paper Awards,
IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter Award (as Founding Chairman of DFW
Chapter), and National Sigma Xi
Award for Outstanding Chapter (as President of UTA Chapter). Received Outstanding Service Award from the
Dallas IEEE Section and selected as Engineer of the year by Ft. Worth IEEE
Section. Listed in Ft. Worth
Business Press Top 200 Leaders in Manufacturing. Appointed to NAE Committee on Space Station in
1995 and IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors in 1996. Selected in 1998 as an IEEE Control Systems
Society Distinguished Lecturer.
Office Tel. No.: (817) 272-5972
Fax.: (817) 272-5989
Laboratory Tel. No.: (817) 272-5955
Email Address: lewis@uta.edu