Control Systems
The Systems and Controls program includes nine graduate courses in the areas of linear and nonlinear control systems, real-time and digital control systems, optimal control, distributed parameter systems, adaptive control, and neural networks. In addition, the theoretical material taught in the upper division undergraduate and graduate courses is enhanced through the use of computer and experimental projects.
Research activities
The control systems program concentrates on Ph.D. education sponsored by various federal and private sources. Most of the Ph.D. students receive financial support in the form of research assistantships or fellowships.
Courses
Elective courses
EEE 480 – Feedback Systems
EEE 481 – Computer Controlled Systems
Graduate Courses
EEE 511 – Artificial Neural Computation Systems
EEE 550 – Transform Theory and Applications
EEE 554 – Random Signal Theory I
EEE 581 – Filtering of Stochastic Processes
EEE 582 – Linear System Theory
EEE 586 – Nonlinear Control Systems
EEE 587 – Optimal Control
EEE 588 – Design of Linear Multivariable Control Systems
EEE 686 – Adaptive Control Theory
Control systems faculty research interests
Aerospace systems
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Automation in life sciences
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
Complex systems
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Computational biology
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Lab-on-a-chip single cell, ecogenomics
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
Low power electronics
Chaitali Chakrabarti
Chaitali Chakrabarti
Professor
Research Interests
VLSI architectures for media processing and wireless communications, algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing systems including medical imaging, low-power embedded systems, reliable memory system design
Lawrence Clark
Lawrence Clark
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Circuits and architectures for low power and high performance VLSI for harsh environments, CAD for VLSI
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Micro- and nanotechnologies
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
Network science
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Nonlinear dynamics and control
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Vijay Vittal
Vijay Vittal
ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems
Ira A. Fulton Chair
Research Interests
Electric power, power system dynamics and controls, nonlinear systems, computer applications in power, sustainable energy, modeling and simulation of complex systems
Real-time control, embedded systems
Pitu Mirchandani
Pitu Mirchandani
Professor, The Avnet Chair in Supply Chain Networks
Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
Optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, real-time control and logistics, application interests in urban service systems, transportation, and homeland security
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Real-time health monitoring
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Robotics and automation
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures
Stochastic control, adaptive control
Deirdre Meldrum
Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery
Research Interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
Jennie Si
Jennie Si
Professor
Research Interests
Learning and approximate dynamic programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes, neural networks, neurophysiological basis for learning and cognitive processing, cortical neural information processing
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures
System optimization
George Pan
George Pan
Professor
Research Interests
Computational electromagnetics, high-speed electronics packaging, magnetic resonant imaging RF coil design and analysis, inverse scattering, rough surface scattering, millimeter-wave antenna systems
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures
Target tracking
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Jennie Si
Jennie Si
Professor
Research Interests
Learning and approximate dynamic programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes, neural networks, neurophysiological basis for learning and cognitive processing, cortical neural information processing
