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