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Author:: Lotfi Gaskarimahalle, Amir
Title:: VIBRATION CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS AND FLUIDIC FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITES
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Semi-active Control
Tuned Vibration Absorbers
Variable Stiffness Systems
Input Shaping
Vibration Control
File:: Download AmirLotfi-Dissertation_7.29.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhao, Haiyu
Title:: Passive, Iterative, and Repetitive Control for Flexible Distributed Parameter Systems
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Feedforward control
flexible distributed parameter systems
vibration control
BIBO stability
File:: Download Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhou, Jing
Title:: Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation
File:: Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member

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Author:: Smith, Kandler A.
Title:: Electrochemical Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lithium Ion Batteries
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: lithium ion
battery
hybrid electric vehicle
model order reduction
diffusion systems
state of charge estimation
File:: Download Dissertation_KandlerSmith2006.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

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Author:: Mao, Xiaofeng
Title:: Nonlinear Robust Control Design for a High-speed Supercavitating Vehicle
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: nonlinear system
robust control
supercavitating vehicle
LPV
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Xiaofeng_Mao_after_defense.pdf
Committee Members:: Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

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