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Michael A. Demetriou

Associate Professor

Office: Higgins Laboratories, 246
Phone: +1-508-831-5459
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
mdemetri@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Controls Laboratory

Educational Background

• B.S., University of Southern California,1987
• M.S., University of Southern California, 1989
• M.S., University of Southern California, 1990
• Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1993
  

Research & Teaching Interests

Adaptive estimation and control of flexible smart structures; robust control of fluid-structure interaction systems; fault detection; diagnosis and accommodation of dynamical systems; active noise control of cavities; optimal location of actuators and sensors in control problems

Recent Publications

• "On-line monitoring and accommodation of nonlinear actuator faults in positive real infinite dimensional systems" , M. A. Demetriou, R. C. Smith and K. Ito, Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004.

• "An adaptive control scheme for a class of second order distributed parameter systems with structured perturbations" , M. A. Demetriou and F. Fahroo, Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004.

• "Second order observers for second order distributed parameter systems ", M. A. Demetriou, in Systems and Control Letters,volume 51, no. 3-4, pp. 225-234,2004.

• "Compensation of Spatiotemporally Varying Disturbances in Nonlinear Transport Processes via Actuator Scheduling ", M. A. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 14, pp. 191-197, 2004.

• "A New Actuator Activation Policy for Performance Enhancement of Controlled Diffusion Processes ", M. A. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, in Automatica, vol. 40, pp. 415-421, 2004.

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Honors & Awards

• Engineering Honors Program Award, University of Southern California, 1987
• Best Presentation Award, American Control Conference, San Francisco, 1993
• Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society
• Golden Key, National Honor Society

Professional Experience & Activities

• Member, IEEE-CSS Conference Editorial Board, 1997-present.
• Guest Editor, Kybernetika, 1997.
• Member, Program Committee, for
  • 1997 IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems (MED97)
  • 1999 IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED99)
  • 2000 IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED00)
  • 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC01)
  • 2001 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA01)
  • 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC04)
  • 2004 American Control Conference (ACC04)
  • 2004 11th Annual Int'l Symposium on Smart Materials and Structures
  • 2005 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC05)
  • 2005 American Control Conference (ACC05)
• Chair, IEEE-CSS Membership Retention Committee, 1999, 2000.
• Chair, Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems (IEEE-CSS), May 2003-present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 2004-present.

Professional Societies/Memberships

• Student Member, SAE, 1984 -1987
• Student Member, ASME, 1984 -1988
• Senior Member, IEEE, 1988 - Present
• Member, AMS, 1989 -1996
• Member, SIAM, 1992 - Present
• Member, AIAA 1997 - Present
• Member, SPIE, 2000 - Present