Past Students and Visiting Scholars

Graduated Ph.D. Students

• Raghu Venkataraman (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Using One Aerodynamic Control Surface, June, 2018.
• Aditya Kotikalpudi (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Robust Flutter Analysis for Aeroservoelastic Systems, April, 2017.
• Masanori Honda (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Temperature Dependent Robust Control of Hard Disk Drives Using Parameter Varying Techniques, October 2016.
• Shu Wang (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Robust LPV Control for Wind Turbines, July 2016.
• Bin Hu (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, A Robust Control Perspective on Optimization of Strongly-Convex Functions, July 2016.
• Jen Annoni (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Modeling for Wind Farm Control, May 2016.
  MS Thesis, Modeling for Wind Farm Control, May 2014.
• David Escobar Sanabria, Co-advised with Roger Arndt and Gary Balas
  Ph.D. Thesis, Modeling, Robust Control, and Experimental Validation of a Supercavitating Vehicle, June 2015.
• Dongwon Lim, Co-advised with Sue Mantell
  Ph.D. Thesis, Development of Self-Powered Wireless Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for Wind Turbine Blades, January 2015.
• Paul Freeman, Co-advised with Gary Balas (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Reliability Assessment for Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, November 2014.
  MS Thesis, Robust, model-based fault detection for commercial transport air data probes, November 2011.
• Andrei Dorobantu, Co-advised with Gary Balas (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Test Platforms for Model-Based Flight Research, September 2013.
  MS Thesis, Time Delay Margin Analysis for Adaptive Flight Control Laws, December 2010.
• Ahmet Arda Ozdemir, Co-advised with Gary Balas (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Preview Control for Wind Turbines, August 2013.
  MS Thesis, Effects of Disturbance Augmented Control Design for Wind Turbines, November 2010.
• Abhijit Chakraborty, Co-advised with Gary Balas (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Nonlinear Robustness Analysis Tools for Flight Control Law Validation & Verification, September 2012.
• Tim Wheeler, Co-advised with Andrew Packard at the University of California, Berkeley (Publications)
  Ph.D. Thesis, Probabilistic Performance Analysis of Fault Diagnosis Schemes, Fall 2011.

Graduated M.S. Students

• Sally Ann Keyes (Publications)
  MS Thesis, A Newtonian Development of the Mean-Axis Dynamics with Example and Simulation, May 2017.
• Inchara Lakshminarayan
  MS Thesis, Model-based Fault Detection for Low-cost UAV Actuators, September 2016.
• Adrià Serra Moral
  MS Thesis, Flutter Suppression of a Flexible Flying-Wing UAV Using the Leading Edge Stagnation Point Sensor, September 2016.
• Raghu Venkataraman (Publications)
  MS Thesis, Reliability Assessment of Actuator Architectures for Unmanned Aircraft, May 2015.
• Daniel Showers
  MS Thesis, System Identification for the Clipper Liberty C96 Wind Turbine, June 2014.
• Janos Polgar, Co-advised with Gary Balas
  MS Thesis, Confidence metrics analysis of a fixed-wing UAV, December 2013.
• Will Thorson
  MS Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Control System for the Mesabi V27 Wind Turbine, May 2013.

Past Visitors and Post-doctoral Researchers

• Daniel Ossmann, August 2015-January 2017. (Publications)
  Individual Blade Pitch Control for Wind Turbines
  Previously at: German Aerospace Center (DLR).
• Ann-Kathrin Schug, February 2016-April 2016. (Publications)
  Robust analysis and synthesis for flexible aircraft with IQCs.
  Visited from: Hamburg University of Technology.
• Marcio Lacerda, August 2015-July 2016. (Publications)
  Analysis and synthesis for uncertain systems
  Visited from: University of Campinas.
• Julian Theis, June 2015-May 2016. (Publications)
  Model order reduction for linear parameter-varying systems and aeroservoelastic control.
  Visited from: Hamburg University of Technology.
• Bela Takarics, December 2013-August 2015. (Publications)
  Integral quadratic constraint based gain scheduling of nonlinear systems.
  Visited from: MTA-Sztaki.
• Harald Pfifer, April 2013-May 2016. (Publications)
  Robust analysis of parameter varying systems and aeroservoelastic control.
  Previously at: German Aerospace Center (DLR).
• Tamas Peni, March 2014-August 2014. (Publications)
  Lower bounds for the gain of a parameter varying system.
  Visited from: MTA-Sztaki.

Past Undergraduate Students

• Apurva Badithela, Actuator Modeling for Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Summer 2015 – Spring 2018 (UROP); Convergence Rate Analysis for the Heavy Ball Algorithm, Summer 2018.
• Joseph Habeck, Rate Table Gyro for Moment of Inertia Testing, Fall 2015 – Spring 2017 (UROP)
• Katherine Wilson, Model predictive control of a quadcopter, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017 (EE Honors Thesis)
• Lindsay Taylor, Design of a small scale turbine, Fall 2015- Spring 2017 (NSF REU)
• Katherine Glasheen, Design of a small scale turbine, Spring 2015- Spring 2016 (UROP and NSF REU)
• Thomas Georgiou, Control of multiple turbines, Spring 2014- Spring 2015 (UROP)
• Erik Bergquist, Build and flight tests of reliable UAV, Summer 2014-Fall 2015
• Kieran McCabe, UAV Bus Architectures, Summer 2013-Spring 2014
• Caleb Carlson, Turbine Yaw Control, Spring 2012-Spring 2013 (UROP)
• Ryan Carlson, UAV Actuator Modeling, Fall 2012-Spring 2013 (UROP)
• Brian Comiskey, UAV Dynamometer Development, Spring 2013