Degrees

Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1963.

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Knoxville, TN, 1958.

Research Interests

Control of Dynamical Systems in the Face of Uncertain Disturbances and Parameter Variations

For the past 36 years I have been actively involved in the development of new approaches to the design of high-performance stabilization, set-point regulation, servo-tracking, guidance laws and adaptive control systems for rockets, missiles and other dynamical systems which must operate in environments with uncertain, persistently-acting disturbances and parameter-variations. These research efforts have led to the development of a wide variety of new control techniques including the theories of: subspace-stabilization control, disturbance-accommodating control, Chebyshev-minimax control, optimal bang-bang control, optimal linear-saturating control, optimal disturbance-utilizing control, linear adaptive control, inter-sample control for discrete-time systems, “smart” active-control of vibrations and structures, inverse-system realization methods, new methods for real-time system identification and deconvolution, singular-solution methods in optimal control, optimal real-time allocation of scarce resources, and exact time-varying eigenvalue methods for linear time-varying dynamical systems.

Publications

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