Prof. Alleyne has been active in the Automotive Control arena since 1992. He has been primarily focused on Vehicle Dynamics and Vehicle Control. Original interests were in the Active Suspension or controllable suspension area. Since 1994 he has been investigating the control of a vehicle's dynamic performance from the driver's input-output point of view. He has also focused on the development and validation of scaled vehicles with respect to Vehicle Dynamics and Vehicle Controls. Most recently, he has begun an investigation of powertrain control for off highway earthmoving machines. Currently, he uses both classical and modern control tools to handle the various control problems under investigation. In addition to his automotive related work, Prof. Alleyne does an extensive amount of research on Fluid Power systems and their applications to various fields. These include manufacturing processes such as Injection Molding as well as vibration control processes and many applications in the off highway machinery arena. He is active in ASME and IEEE, previously serving as the Vice Chair and Chair of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Transportation Panel.
Julie Buckland / TopJulie Buckland received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1988 and 1993 respectively. She worked several years in the defense industry developing flight control systems for advanced military aircraft. In 1994, she joined Ford Motor Company, where she is currently a technical expert in the Powertrain Controls R&D Department. Her work focuses on modeling and control of advanced technology powertrain systems.
Vincent J. Winstead / TopVincent J. Winstead received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities in 1994. He spent four years as an officer and engineer with the United States Air Force working on various avionics and navigation system development programs and currently serves as a reservist working part time with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. He is presently a dissertator in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison completing his Ph.D. degree. Mr. Winstead joined Ford Motor Company full time in 2002 and is currently a controls engineer in Powertrain Control at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan. His research interests include automotive and fuel cell powertrain control, observer design for stochastic delay-differential systems, fault detection and the application of model-predictive control techniques. Mr. Winstead is a registered P.E. in both Minnesota and Michigan.
Matthew A. Franchek / TopMatthew A. Franchek is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at PurdueUniversity. He received his B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1987, and his M.S.M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from TexasA&MUniversity in 1988 and 1991 respectively. He began his academic career in January of 1992 at PurdueUniversity. In addition to his academic experience, Professor Franchek has over 10 years of industrial experience including machine design, hydraulic circuit design, and instrumentation and control system design. Currently, Professor Franchek's research activities are directed toward the diagnostics/prognostics and control of internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines and hydraulic systems. A partial list of his current I.C. engine projects include PZEV fueling control, exhaust after-treatment health monitoring, automated online diesel engine governor reconfiguration, diesel fueling system control, online diesel engine cylinder balancing, diesel engine EGR control with VGT, and a variety of spark ignition and diesel engine prognostic technologies for detecting engine health. His research laboratories are maintained at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories of Purdue University. This graduate research facility contains two Ford 4.6 L V-8 fuel injected engines coupled to 175-hp eddy current dynamometers, a Cummins diesel engine coupled to an 800-hp eddy current dynamometer, and a 16-hp Tecumseh engine coupled to a magneto-rheological braking system developed by Lord Corporation. This research facility has recently installed both Cambustion and Horiba transient emission analyzers. Each engine and the emission analyzers are interfaced through an open architecture control platform (OACP) comprised of Matlab, RealTime Workshop, and dSpace boards. Complete control over the engine fueling, load, and speed are achieved with the OACP system.
In addition to his engine related research, Professor Franchek is collaborating with other PurdueUniversity faculty in the area of perception engineering. One application of this research is to fully integrate amputees with smart, articulate
electro-mechanical hands. Skin surface mounted sensors and vibrators are used to create the sensation of touch and gripping as well as effortless movement of the hand fingers. The ultimate goal of this research is to create new job opportunities for people of limited motor skills through advanced control and hardware technologies.
Professor Franchek has received the 1997 Feddersen Faculty Fellow award for his research efforts in mechatronics, and has won the 1994 and 1999 Harry L. Solberg best teaching award in the School of Mechanical Engineering at PurdueUniversity.
Luigi Glielmo (pronounced yel'moh) received a "laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering in 1986 and a research doctorate degree in Automatic Control in 1990, both from Universita` di Napoli Federico II (Italy), where now he is an Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Computer and System Engineering. His theoretical research interests include analysis and robust control design through Lyapunov and singular perturbation techniques, and extended Kalman filtering. On the application side he has worked on ship dynamic
positioning, and plasma shape identification and control for tokamak fusion reactors. Since 1995 he has been involved in automotive control, particularly reduced order modeling of three-way catalytic converters during the warm-up phase, idle speed and A/F control, supervision control for vehicle subsystems integration, dry clutch control, hybrid vehicle simulation. He is a member of IEEE and ASME, and an associate editor of the journal Dynamics & Control (Kluwer).
Prof. Luigi Glielmo
Department of Computer and System Engineering
Universita` di Napoli Federico II Tel. +39 (081) 768-3181
via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy Fax +39 (081) 768-3186
Jessy W. Grizzle received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1983. Since September 1987, he has been with The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a past Associate Editor of the Transactions on Automatic Control and Systems and Control Letters, and from 1997-1999 served on the IEEE Control System Society's Board of Governors. Prof. Grizzle has worked on a wide range of theoretical issues in nonlinear control and observer design, and is
actively pursuing applications of system theory in the automotive industry and semiconductor manufacturing. Prof. Grizzle has worked on spark ignition engine control systems since 1986, with primary emphasis on emissions reductions and fuel economy improvement. His work covers control-oriented modeling of spark ignition engines and Emissions after-treatment systems (catalysts and NOx traps), the use of classical and modern control techniques to deal with the multi-variable, nonlinear and hybrid aspects of dynamic engine control, and optimization
techniques to study performance capabilities of novel powertrain systems.
Prof. Jessy W. Grizzle
University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor,MI 48109-2122 USA TEL: +1(734)-763-3598
FAX: +1(734)-763-8041
Rolf Johansson received the doctorate in control theory 1983, was appointed Docent in 1985, and received the Doctor-of-Medicine degree (M.D.) in 1986, all from Lund University, Lund, Scandinavia. He is member of SIAM and IEEE and is fellow of the Swedish Society of Medicine. He has held visiting appointments at Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France, Uppsala University, CalTech, Rice University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Supelec, UT Compiegne, U. Napoli Federico II.
In his scientific work, he has been involved in research in adaptive system theory, mathematical modeling, system identification, robotics and signal processing. In automotive control, he has been involved with adaptive cruise control, driver modeling and combustion engine control.
Dr. Rolf Johansson
Professor, Control Science
Dept. of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology
Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 8791
P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118
e-mail:
Ilya V. Kolmanovsky received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. He is currently a Technical Leader in Powertrain Control at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan where he leads a group of controls engineers and specialists responsible for control system development within a larger, cross-functional, "game-changing" powertrain technology developmentprogram. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (1997-1999), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2002-2004), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2005-present) and he was a Program Committee Member of 1997, 1999 and 2004 American Control Conferences. Dr. Kolmanovsky was a recipient of 2002 Donald P. Eckman award of American Automatic Control Council for contributions to nonlinear control and for pioneering work in automotive engine control of powertrain systems and of 2002 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology outstanding paper award. In addition to his main area of expertise in the automotive engine and powertrain control, Dr. Kolmanovsky's research interests are in the potential of advanced control techniques as an enabling technology for advanced automotive systems, and in several areas of control theory which include constrained control, optimization-based and model-predictive control, and control of nonlinear mechanical, nonholonomic and underactuated systems.
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Powertrain Control Systems Department
Ford Research Lab.
Dearborn, MI
Dr. Giuseppe Police joined Istituto Motori (IM) of National Research Council (CNR) in the summer of 1973. He was professor of Internal combustion engines at Cassino University in the period 1987-1991. He was member of the National Committee of CNR for the coordination of research in the engineering and of environmental field. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of IM-CNR. Dr. Giuseppe Police is currently managing the Spark Engine Division of IM. Main scientific interests include engine combustion analysis by 3D simulation, engine combustion system optimisation, modelling of engine and pollutant formation for the optimisation of control strategies.
Giuseppe Police
Istituto Motori CNR
Spark Ignition Engines and Fuels div.
Via Marconi, 8
80125 Naples-Italy
Tel. +39-081-7177112
Fax +39-081-2396097
e-mail:
Istituto Motori's
Gianfranco Rizzo (Naples, 1952) received in 1975 a laurea degree "cum laude" in Mechanical Engineering at University of Naples. He worked at FIAT in Turin, at Istituto Motori CNR (Research National Council of Italy) and at University of Naples as assistant professor. Since 1992, he has been at the Dept.of Mechanical Engineering of University of Salerno as associate professor (courses of "Machines" and "Internal Combustion Engines"). He is member of ASME, SAE, EAFE. His research interests include: Modeling and Control of Thermo- Fluidodynamic Processes and Emissions in Internal Combustion Engines; Optimal Design of Turbomachinery; Modeling and Optimal Management of Bio-Economic Systems (Fishery and Aquacolture). His main research activity in automotive field include: Development of Hierarchical Structure of Models for Analysis and Optimal Design of Engine Control Strategies (ECS), Neural Network applications, Stochastic Optimization of ECS, Thermodynamic Models, Combustion and Emission Model Identification, On-line Estimation of NOx Emissions, Cylinder Wall Temperature and A/F from Cylinder Pressure Cycle. He has developed educational software and multimedia applications for energy systems, fluid machines and steam power plants, and industrial codes for Optimal Design of Engine Control Strategies (ODECS) and Gas Turbine Emissions. Cooperations with automotive (Magneti Marelli, FIAT-ELASIS) and energy (SNAM) industry. Chairman and reviewer for ASME and IEEE Conferences, ASME Journals. Research project reviewer for Italian and international research organizations. Session Organizer for international conferences (IEEE, AVEC2000, IFAC). International partnerships within Erasmus, Tempus and FAIR-EU projects. Hobbies: Accordeonist in the Jazz Orchestra of the University of Salerno.
Gianfranco Rizzo
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Salerno
Via Ponte Don Melillo
84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
Tel/FAX +39 089 964069
FAX +39 089 964037
URL
Giorgio Rizzoni received the B.S. (1980), M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Between 1986 and 1990 he served as the Assistant Director of the Vehicular Electronics Laboratory and Assistant Research Scientist and Lecturer with the EECS Department, both at the University of Michigan. Dr. Rizzoni has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University since 1990, and was recently appointed Director of the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation.
Dr. Rizzoni is the Director of the Powertrain Control and Diagnostics Laboratory, and of the DOE Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center on Hybrid Drivetrains and Controls, both affiliated with the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation. His research activities focus on internal combustion engine modeling, control and diagnostics, and on hybrid and alternative powertrain concepts. Dr Rizzoni has published over one hundred technical papers in international publications. He is the author of two textbooks, including Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineeringi, now in its third edition, and of the chapter Electrical Engineering in the CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Rizzoni is a past Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control and of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has served as Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Control Systems, and as General Chair of the 1998 IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control. He is a member of ASME, IEEE and SAE, Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control, and a recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, of the 1992 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award; and of various other teaching and technical awards.
Dr. Stefanopoulou received Diploma and M.S. in naval architecture and marine engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the University of Michigan in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
She also received M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering systems in 1993 and 1996, respectively. She worked as a Technical Specialist in the Scientific Research Laboratories at Ford Motor Company. During this period she developed nonlinear and multivariable models and controllers for advanced engines. Her algorithms were implemented and tested in experimental vehicle. During this period, she received three patents.
She is presently an assistant professor at the mechanical and environmental engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a joint appointment with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Stefanopoulou is Vice-chair of the Transportation Panel in ASME DSCD, a recipient of a 1997 NSF CAREER, a 1998 Ford Innovation award, and a participant of the 1999 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests are in multivariable feedback control, controller architectures for industrial applications, and powertrain and propulsion modeling.
Anna Stefanopoulou, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Ph: 805/893-8501
Engineering Building II, Room 2355, Fax: 805/893-8651
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070
Jing Sun is a senior technical specialist in the Powertrain Control Systems Department at Ford Research Laboratory. Her primary interest is powertrain modeling and control, with focus on fuel economy and emissions. She is working with her colleagues to apply modern control design tools and methods to advanced powertrain systems for improved performance and robustness.
Jing Sun
Powertrain Control Systems Department
Ford Research Lab.
Dearborn, MI
(313)-323-0369 (phone) (313)-845-0962(fax)
Francesco Vasca was born in Giugliano (Napoli), Italy on 1967. In 1991 and 1995 he received the "Laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD degree in Automatic Control both with the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica at the Università di Napoli Federico II. Since 1995 he is Ricercatore (Assistant Professor) of Automatic Control with the Università del Sannio in Benevento, Italy, where he is Temporary Professor of "Process Control". His research interests include: analysis, control and parameters identification for induction motor drives, Kalman filtering for bilinear state systems, nonlinear dynamics in piecewise smooth systems, automotive applications of automatic control. Dr. Vasca he is a member of the IEEE Control System Society, IEEE Power Electronics Society and ANIPLA.
Steve Yurkovich / TopSteve Yurkovich is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University, and heads up the Educational Activities at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) (
His primary research interests are in system identification for control and applications of control, and in recent years have focused on automotive applications, including ABS braking systems, active suspension, and (most recently) powertrain control. With colleagues Rizzoni and Srinivasan in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State, Professor Yurkovich developed a unique three-course sequence in Powertrain Dynamics and Control which has now been taught several times at Ohio State and offered via distance learning to engineers at General Motors and Ford. His current research in the powertrain area consists of applications of nonlinear control ideas for engine control, and control for hybrid electric vehicles.
Coordinates:
Stephen Yurkovich, Professor
1999 President, IEEE Control Systems Society
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1272
Main campus office: (614) 292-2586 (voice), (614) 292-7596 (fax)
Center for Automotive Research office: (614) 688-0422
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