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Robust Control and Aerospace Systems Expert Consultant Resume

Resume of RVT, Ph.D. Consultant
Principal Industries Served:
  • Aerospace
  • Aeronautics
  • Astronautics
  • Control Systems
  • Research

Education:

This expert has a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (Dynamics and Control Systems) from Purdue University.

While attending the Indian Institute of Science, this expert earned a M.E. in Aerospace Engineering, and a B.E. in Electrical Technology.

This expert earned a B.Sc. in Math, Physics, and Chemistry from Andhra University in India.


Expertise and Services:

Robust Control and Aerospace Systems Expert Consultant Resume

This expert specializes in flight control systems, industrial control systems, PID controllers, and satellite attitude control systems. Further expertise includes smart structural control systems, control systems applications, propulsion control systems, and fault diagnostics. Other related areas of expertise include electromechanical actuators, actuators and sensors in feedback control systems, regulation control systems, automotive control systems, and control systems analysis and design.

Additional areas of expertise and experience include system dynamics and control systems, robust control systems analysis and design, modem control theory and applications, and optimization in dynamic systems. Further areas are dynamics and control of flexible structures, control of smart structures, control of robot manipulators, and aircraft/spacecraft control systems design. This expert also has experience with integrated control systems analysis and design and active control of propulsion/fluid flow systems.

This expert offers extensive background and knowledge in areas including automatic control systems, modern control theory, discrete systems, robust multivariable control, and orbital mechanics. Other skilled areas are optimal control theory, computer control of robotic systems, optimization methods in aerospace engineering, and flight mechanics and control. This associate has also demonstrated expertise specific to stability and control of aerospace vehicles and system dynamics.


Professional Experience:

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing expertise in robust control systems, industrial control systems, smart structural control systems, control systems applications, propulsion control systems, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, major university

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation, major university

Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, major university

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

Research and Teaching Assistant, David Ross Fellowship Holder, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

Summer Faculty Research Fellow, Wright Labs, Wright Patterson Air Force Base (FIBD)

Summer Faculty Research Fellow, NASA Lewis Research Center

Consultant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


Additional Experience:

Summer Faculty Research Fellow

Wright Patterson Air Force Base (FIGC)

Consultant

Purdue University

REVIEWER

  • Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR)
  • Journal of Optimal Control: Applications and Methods
  • Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (AIAA)
  • Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (ASME Transactions)
  • AIAA Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • NSF Proposals
  • Automatica (IF AC)
  • IEEE, CDC, ACC Conferences
  • International Journal of Control

Research Related Professional Services

  • Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems
  • Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control
  • Robust Analysis
  • Linear System Stability
  • Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control
  • Navigation and Control
  • Stability of Linear Systems
  • Robust Stability
  • Descriptor Systems
  • Stability of Dynamic Systems
  • Switched systems
  • Robustness
  • Robustness Analysis
  • Robust Design
  • Control Theory
  • Aircraft Control
  • Stabilization
  • Stability
  • Future Directions in Robustness Research
  • H-Infinity and Robust Control
  • Control Methods for Active Systems
  • Flight Controls
  • Linear Control System Design
  • Active Control of Vibrations and Noise: Adaptive Materials, Actuators and Sensors
  • Numerical Methods
  • Robust Control for Distributed Systems

Funded Research

Secured in excess of $1.8 Million in sponsorship of research during the professorial career up to the present, including:

AFOSR for research on robust control design for large flexible structures. Research performed is applicable to the control of flexible robot manipulators.

WPAFB for research on robustness analysis and design of LQG regulators with applications to large space structures. Research extendable to the control of flexible robot manipulators.

NASA Langley Research Center for research on robust control with application to aircraft control

WPAFB for research on robust control design for uncertain systems.

Research Challenge Grant, of the University of Toledo, by the Ohio Board of Regents (OBOR) for research on the control of robot manipulators.

Research Challenge Seed Grant at OSU for research on control of flexible robot manipulators.

WPAFB for research on robust control.

NASA/USRA Senior design project

McDonnell Aircraft Company for robust control design for advanced fighter.

NASA Langley for research on robust control

Research Seed Grant at OSU from IVHS-OSU Center (Center for Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems) for research on Curve Speed Alert in IVHS framework

Research grant by AFOSR for research on Control Design tailored to Smart Structural Systems

DAGSI Fellowship

AFRL Inter Personnel Agreement (IPA)

AFRL as a Co PI of the Collaborative Center of Control Science

Universal Technology Corporation for research on Turbine Engine Control and Health Management

NASA Glenn for NASA Dryden Flight research Center for research on Stability and Robustness Guarantees for Advanced Nonlinear Flight Controllers

NASA Dryden Research Center for research on stability and robustness guarantees for nonlinear flight controllers

NASA Glenn/GEAE for research on adaptive controllers for fault diagnostics and estimation for turbine engine control and health management

Army Research Office (ARO) for research on Robust Stability and Control of Multi-body Ground Vehicles under Uncertainty and Failures

National Science Foundation for research on robust control design using Ecological Sign stability approach

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, CA for research on stability and performance analysis of Distributed Engine Control Systems under Communication Constraints


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