Areas of Advanced Research - Intelligent
Control, Robotics and Automation: Faculty
The following list of faculty members are associated with intelligent control,
robotics and automation and should be useful to those students looking for research
advisors for the 2001-2002 academic year.
Murat Arcak
No information at this time
Joe Chow
Control systems
Power system modeling, dynamics, and control
Multivariable and robust control design
Large scale system modeling, analysis, and computation
Decentralized control
Singular perturbation theory and model reduction
Flexible Structure Control
Nonlinear control systems
Alan Desrochers
Modeling and control of flexible manufacturing systems
Petri nets in computer integrated manufacturing
Control of robotic systems
Les Gerhardt
Communication systems
Digital signal processing
Adaptive systems
Pattern recognition
Computer integrated manufacturing
Voice processing
Image processing
Bandwidth compression.
3-D vision and modeling
Biometrics (fingerprints, voice) for personnel ID
Computer integrated manufacturing and inspection
Technology aids to the handicapped
Robert Kelley
Sensor-based robotics and automation systems
Task-driven techniques for vision-guided grasping of arbitrary objects
Task-driven techniques for vision guided alignment for minimum reaction
Machine vision techniques for high contrast scenes
Task characterization using fuzzy rules
Behavioral control of robotic manipulation tasks
Sensing techniques and assembly contact phenomena
George Nagy
Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence
Digitized document analysis and character recognition
Computational geometry and solid modeling
Spatial databases and geographic information systems
Knowledge-based computer vision
Art Sanderson
Task planning and architectures for robotic systems
Knowledge-based systems
Computer vision and pattern recognition
Flexible manufacturing systems
Harry Stephanou
Intelligent robotics and automation systems
Multifingered robot hands
Intelligent process control
Robotic Inspection Systems
James Tien
No information at this time
John Wen
Research Interests:
Multi-body Mechanical Systems: Kinematic and dynamic modeling,
real time control, off-line planning for multi-body mechanical systems, including
flexible structures, articulated robots, cooperative manipulators, and mobile
vehicles.
Material Processing: Modeling and control of metal deformation
processes such as extrusion and forging, metal joining processes such as resistive
welding, and coating processes such as plasma spraying.
Active Materials and Smart Structures: Controller design using
piezoceramic and shape memory alloy as control and sensing elements in flexible
structures.
Multi-Objective Controller Synthesis: Synthesis methodology for
linear time invariant systems under multiple design objectives including performance
optimization in H-infinity, H-2, or l-1 norms and robustness constraints in
terms of H-infinity norm or controller positive realness.
Specific Research Topics:
Feedback control of nonholonomic systems
Path planning for nonholonomic systems
Contact planning for cooperative manipulators
Vehicle stability analysis
0utput tracking control for a multi-link flexible structure
Modeling and control of aluminum extrusion
Detection and correction of process variations in resistive welding
Hysteresis characterization and compensation
Higher harmonic reduction in helicopters
Mixed objective controller design for linear time invariant systems