Dynamic Systems & Control
THOMAS BEWLEY
Associate Professor
+1-858-534-4287
Thomas Bewley joined the Dynamic Systems & Control group of MAE in 1998, after completing his Ph.D. at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. Prof. Bewley directs the Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Labs at UCSD. The Flow Control Lab specializes in the development of new approaches to the control, forecasting, and optimization of laminar and turbulent flows. This work involves a blend of large-scale simulations of chaotic fluid systems, modern linear and nonlinear control and optimization theory, characterization of controlled fluid systems with the inequalities available for Navier-Stokes systems, and the synthesis of these several tools in order to provide fundamental new insights. This line of research has relevance to problems in drag reduction, mixing enhancement, noise mitigation, weather prediction, etc. The Coordinated Robotics Lab is developing a new class of highly agile mobile robots, focusing on both component-level and systems-level design issues as well as the coordination and control strategies required for these robots to perform complex maneuvers robustly and efficiently.
ROBERT BITMEAD
Professor
rbitmead@ucsd.edu
+1-858-822-3477
Robert Bitmead hails from Sydney, Newcastle, Townsville and Canberra Australia. His research interests encompass theoretical and applications sides of dynamical system modeling and control. In particular he has a long history of collaborative research with US and Australian industries concentrating on theories and techniques for modeling, signal processing and control. He joined Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1999 after more than 16 years at the Department of Systems Engineering at The Australian National University in Canberra where, inter alia, he was for 8 years the Executive Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Robust & Adaptive Systems, an incorporated joint venture between the university, government labs and industry.
Professional Distinctions:
•Fellow of the IEEE
•Council Member of International Federation of Automatic Control 1996-
•General Chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Sydney, December 2000
RAYMOND A. DE CALLAFON
Associate Professor
+1-858-534-3166
Raymond de Callafon received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in October 1998. After one year as a research assistant at UCSD in 1997, he joined the faculty in the Dynamic Systems and Control Program of MAE as an assistant professor in July 1998. His current research interests lie in the theory of modeling using system identification techniques and the interaction between modeling and control. He is interested in modeling and control applications that involve mechanical, servo and structural systems.
JORGE CORTES
Assistant Professor
cortes@ucsd.edu
+1-858-822-7930
Jorge Cortes received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in June 1997, and a Ph.D. in engineering mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in December 2001. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Systems, Signals, and Control Department, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands (from January to June 2002), and at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (from August 2002 to September 2004). From 2004 to 2007, he was an assistant professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCSD in July 2007 as an assistant professor. He received a NSF CAREER award in 2006. He is the author of the book Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002) and the recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Young Researcher Prize. He is currently an associate editor for the European Journal of Control and the IEEE-CSS Conference Editorial Board. His research interests are in systems and control, sensor networks, engineering mathematics, and geometric mechanics.
MIROSLAV KRSTIC
Professor
krstic@ucsd.edu
+1-858-822-1374
Miroslav Krstic received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1994. After two years as assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland, he joined UCSD in 1997. His research efforts have included adaptive nonlinear control, continuous-time stochastic nonlinear control, extremum seeking, and applications to turbulent fluid flows and fusion. His current focus is on developing design tools for boundary control of systems modeled by partial differential equations.
Professional Distinctions:
•UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Research in Science and Engineering, 2005
•Vice President of the IEEE Control System Society, 2002-2003
•IEEE Fellow, elected 2001
•Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 1999
•George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 1998
•ONR Young Investigator Award, 1998
•NSF Career Award, 1996
•O.Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control Council, 1996
•Best Dissertation Award, UCSB, 1995
SONIA MARTINEZ
Assistant Professor
+1-858-822-4243
Sonia Martinez received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain in May 2002. Following a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, she received a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship and held appointments at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at the Center for Control Engineering and Computation of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main reseach interests include systems and information theory, nonlinear control theory and robotics. Her current research focuses on the development of distributed coordination algorithms for the deployment of sensor networks and highly-autonomous vehicle systems. For her work on the control of underactuated mechanical systems she received the Best Student Paper award at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
WILLIAM MCENEANEY
Professor
+1-858-822-1269
William McEneaney began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1984 as a member of the Future Missions Group. In 1989 he returned to academia, and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1993. After three years as the Duffin Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, he moved to North Carolina State University where he remained until moving to UCSD in the Fall of 2001. His research interests are in nonlinear, stochastic, and robust control theory, dynamic games, estimation, max-plus algebraic methods, and partial differential equations. He has worked on applications to spacecraft guidance and navigation, aerospace vehicle tracking, mathematical finance, and command and control of military operations.
ROBERT E. SKELTON
Professor
+1-858-822-1054
Robert Skelton began his career at the Marshall Space Flight Center, working first with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company and then Sperry Rand for 12 years. From 1975-1996, he was a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University. He is a Fellow of AIAA and IEEE. He was the 1991 Russell Severence Springer Professor, UC Berkeley. For five years, he served on the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Engineering Board. He served on the External Independent Review Team for the second servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, and is now serving on this team for the next servicing mission. He has published three books and over a hundred journal papers.
Professional Distinctions:
•Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
•Senior Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
•Russell Severence Springer Chair, UC Berkeley, 1991 Fellow of AIAA and IEEE
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Faculty of research in Dynamic Systems & Control
The Dynamic Systems & Control group at UCSD integrates, at a fundamental level, system design, modeling, and control disciplines to obtain improved performance of the dynamic response of engineering systems using feedback. As such, the areas of research of the Dynamic Systems & Control group is a joint activity in the topics of systems integration, dynamic system modeling, feedback control design, and the fundamentals of systems theory as applied to linear and nonlinear dynamic systems, mechatronics, structural control, aerospace, and fluid-mechanical systems.
Marina Robenko (phone: +1-858-822-1269, email: mrobenko@ucsd.edu), is the administrative assistant who attempts us to keep us all organized. Please contact her for general inquiries.
Currently, the Dynamic Systems & Control group is led by eight faculty members.
Thomas Bewley directs the Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Labs. The former is developing new methods for control, estimation, forecasting, and optimization of laminar and turbulent flow systems, whereas the latter is developing a new class of highly agile mobile robots.
Robert Bitmead is interested in theoretical and applications sides of dynamical system modeling and control. His specific research interests concentrate on developing theories and techniques for modeling, signal processing and control.
Raymond de Callafon focuses on experimental dynamic modeling using system identification techniques and the use of identified models in robust control design. His applications interests include the signal processing issues and the identification, control and monitoring problems in structural systems and mechatronic servo systems.
Jorge Cortes focuses on problems in cooperative control, natural and engineered dynamical systems, and distributed optimization. Application areas include mobile robotics, environmental sensing, and wireless networks.
Miroslav Krstic heads the Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Laboratory which conducts research in nonlinear, adaptive, distributed parameter, and stochastic control theory. His applications interests include control of flow and combustion instabilities in jet engines, blade-vortex interaction on helicopter rotors, under water vehicles, and automotive systems.
Sonia Martinez has interests in systems and information theory, nonlinear control theory and robotics. Her current research applications are in the development of distributed coordination algorithms for the deployment of sensor networks and highly-autonomous vehicle systems.
William McEneaney's research interests include Nonlinear Control, Stochastic Processes, H-infinity Control and Filtering, Risk-Sensitive Control and Filtering, Differential Games, Numerical Methods for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, Max-Plus Algebra, Epsilon-Log-Plus Algebras, and applications to Command and Control.
Robert Skelton heads the Structural Systems and Control Lab, and researches the integration of control and plant design. This includes integrating signal processing and control, integrating modeling and control, integrating structure design and control. His interest in controlled tensegrity structures is motivated by biological systems.
For more detailed information on the research and teaching within the Dynamic Systems & Control group, please click on the home page links provided for each professor below.
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