Process Estimation and Control

Masters Theses

• Michael Barngrover, Investigation of Precision Control for Nonlinear Plants with High Degrees of Friction and Load Variation, August 2007.
• Christopher Wynkoop, Robust Control of Aftertreatment System Temperature May 2007.
• Joseph Faivre, Development of Force Control Capability for a Backhoe Loader Test Bed, August 2005.
• Jose A. Lopez, Nonlinear Control of a Magnetic Suspension System Using Lyapunov Methods, August 2005.
• Kevin Brehm, Voice Recognition Applied to a Home Automation System, August 2002.
• Megan Bern, Evaluation of an Analytical Method for Optimum Frequency Domain Design in Control Applications, May 2002.
• Jeff Alig, Investigation of Conventional and Neural Control Methods for Nonlinear Plants, December 1997.

Masters Design Projects

• Troy Resetich, Evaluation of Model-Based Controller Designs and PID Tuning Methods for Robot Arm System, August 2007.
• Stephen Friedrechs, Design of a Low-Power Data Acquisition System for Embedded Controls, May 2007.
• Rama Krishna Nallamalli, Design of Controllers for a Hard Disk Drive Servo System, December 2006.
• Mona S. Chaudhary, Modeling and Control of a DC Motor Speed Using dSPACE DS1102, May 2006.
• Pavan Kumar Chebolu, Design, Analysis and Simulation of Feedback Linearization Controller for Arm-Rotor-Platform System,May 2006.
• Prasan Kumar Tata, Feasibility Study of using Internet and xPC Target for Real Time Control of a Magnetic Suspension System, May 2006.
• Michael Armstrong, Development of Simulink Model for Catalyst Implement Features, December 2005.
• Paul Friend, Inductrack Disc Magnetic Levitation, May 2005.
• Namik Kemal Akyil, Control of a Magnetic Suspension System Using State Feedback, Optimal, and Neural Network Controllers, December 2003.
• Brett Marshall, Controller and Power Electronics Design for a DC Motor, January 2003.
• Hervé P. Roca, A User’s Manual for dSPACE DS1102 Embedded Control Workstation, August 2001.
• Todd Ciccone, Conventional Controller Design and System Identification for a Small Inverted Robot Arm, December 1998.
• Thomas McCauley, Investigation of Neural Algorithms for Noise Cancellation Applications, December 1998.
• Ashley Greer, Neural Network Modeling of Customer Satisfaction Survey Data, May 1997.
• Sophia Fang, Artificial Neural Networks and Digital Signal Processing, August 1996.
• Ramireddy Narender, A Neural-Based Circuit Tester, May 1994.