Students
Prospective Ph.D. Students
I am looking for Ph.D. students interested in mathematical control theory, mechanics, and robotics. Please see this note.
Former Ph.D. Students
| Emily Vukovich | 2025 | Gait Synthesis for Planar Bipedal Robots via Virtual Holonomic Constraints |
| Luiz Dias Navarro | 2025 | Hybrid Virtual Constraints for Stabilization of Closed Orbits |
| Ashton Roza (w/ L. Scardovi) | 2019 | Distributed Coordination Theory for Ground and Aerial Robot Teams |
| Alireza Mohammadi | 2016 | Virtual Holonomic Constraints for Euler-Lagrange Control Systems |
| Edoardo Serpelloni (w/ C. Damaren) | 2016 | Bang-Bang Practical Stabilization of Rigid Bodies |
| Mohamed I. El-Hawwary | 2011 | Passivity methods for the stabilization of closed sets in nonlinear control systems |
| Barry Rawn (w/ P. Lehn) | 2009 | Ensuring safe exploitation of wind turbine kinetic energy: An invariance kernel formulation. |
| Chris Nielsen | 2008 | Set stabilization using transverse feedback linearization |
| Zhiyun Lin (w/ B.A. Francis) | 2005 | Coupled Dynamic Systems: From Structure Towards Stability |
Former M.A.Sc. and M.Eng. Students
| Adan Moran-MacDonald | 2021 | Energy Injection for Mechanical Systems Through the Method of Virtual Nonholonomic Constraints |
| Emily Vukovich | 2020 | Virtual Constraint Generation for Stable Acrobot Gaits |
| Rein Otsason | 2020 | Virtual constraint generation |
| Joshua Lee (M.Eng.) | 2018 | Implementation of a Spherical Manipulator |
| Xingbo Wang | 2016 | Motion Control of a Gymnastics Robot Using Virtual Holonomic Constraints. |
| Catalin Arghir (M.Eng.) | 2014 | Virtual Holonomic Constraints for Swing-Up of the Pendubot: Experimental Results |
| Ashton Roza | 2012 | Motion control of rigid bodies in SE(3) |
| Dame Jankuloski | 2012 | Virtual Holonomic Constraints and the Synchronization of Euler-Lagrange Systems |
| Farid Zare Seisan | 2011 | Modeling and Control of a Co-Axial Helicopter |
| Tyson John | 2010 | Set Stabilization for Systems with Lie Group Symmetry |
| Cameron Fulford | 2007 | Control of a High-Precision Positioning System Using Magnetic Levitation |
| David Langen (w/ L. Pavel) | 2007 | Finite Dimensional Approximations to a Raman Amplifier Model |
| Payam Fakhri | 2005 | Application of Polytopic Separation Techniques to Nonlinear Observer Design |
| Brydon Owen | 2005 | Implementation of High-Precision Positioning Systems Using Contactless Magnetic Levitation |
| Barry Rawn (w/ P. Lehn) | 2004 | Wind Energy Conversion Systems As Power Filters: A Control Methodology |
| Chris Nielsen | 2004 | Maneuver Regulation, Transverse Feedback Linearization, and Zero Dynamics |
| Mitch Levis | 2003 | Nonlinear Control of a Planar Magnetic Levitation System |
| Ali Rajaeesani (M.Eng.) | 2003 | Robust output feedback stabilization, compressor stall and surge example |
| Rafael Becerril Arreola | 2003 | Nonlinear Control Design for a Magnetic Levitation System |
| Atsuhiko Sakurai (w/ B.A. Francis) | 2001 | Sliding Mode Control of Switched Reluctance Motors |
Former Postdoctoral Researchers
| Philip McCarthy | A Noether theorem and symmetry reduction for virtual holonomic contraints with Symmetry | 2019-21 |