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Lucy Pao Professor Control Systems, Sensor Fusions, and Robotics Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309 More about Lucy Pao

Contents 1 Recent Publications 2 Projects 3 Teaching 4 Students 4.1 Current Students 4.2 Past Students

Recent Publications

• D. Y. Abramovitch, S. B. Andersson, L. Y. Pao, and G. Schitter. "A Tutorial on the Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Control of Atomic Force Microscopes," Proc. American Control Conf., New York, NY, pp. 3488-3502, July 2007.
• L. Y. Pao, J. A. Butterworth, and D. Y. Abramovitch. "Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Atomic Force Microscopes," Proc. American Control Conf., New York, NY, pp. 3509-3515, July 2007.
• V. Yousefzadeh, A. Babazadeh, B. Ramachandran, E. Alarcon, L. Pao, and D. Maksimovic. "Proximate Time-Optimal Digital Control for DC-DC Converters," Proc. IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conf., Orlando, FL, June 2007.
• V. V. Kulkarni, L. Y. Pao, and P. L. Falb. "Stability Multipliers for Memoryless Positive Nonlinearities: Parameterizations Based on the Nonlinearity Graph," submitted in July 2006 for publication in the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control.
• M. D. Baumgart and L. Y. Pao. "Discrete Time-Optimal Command Shaping for Single- and Multi-Input Systems," Automatica, 43(8): 1403-1409, Aug. 2007.
• M. D. Baumgart and L. Y. Pao. "Robust Control of Nonlinear Web-Winding Systems with and without Tension Sensors," ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 129(1): 41-55, Jan. 2007.
• K. E. Johnson, L. Y. Pao, M. J. Balas, and L. J. Fingersh. "Control of Variable Speed Wind Turbines: Standard and Adaptive Techniques for Maximizing Energy Capture," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 26(3): 70-81, June 2006.
• More Publications

Projects

• Control Architectures and Adaptive Model-Inverse Based Methods for Nonminimum Phase Uncertain Systems, with Applications to Atomic Force Microscopes
• Design of Lidar, Data Processing, and Control Algorithms for Optimal Wind Farm Performance
• Control of Atomic Force Microscopes to Achieve Faster Sample Measurements
• Time Optimal Repetitive Control Algorithms
• Projected Phase-Plane Control of Flexible Structures with Applications to Hard Disk Drives
• Data Association Algorithms for Tracking Satellites
• Disaster Tolerant and Interoperable Communications
• More Projects

Teaching

• ECEN 3300 - Linear Systems
• ECEN 4138 - Control Systems Analysis
• ECEN 5418 - Automatic Control Systems (Spring 2007)
• ECEN 5448 - Advanced Linear Systems
• ECEN 5458 - Sampled-Data and Digital Control Systems (Fall 2007)

Students

Current Students

• Jeffrey A. Butterworth (Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Atomic Force Microscopes)
• Brian P. Rigney Adaptive Settle-Optimal Control of Servomechanisms
• Matthew J. Travers (Multisensor Data Fusion / Satellite Tracking)
• Hua Zhong (Reel Eccentricity Disturbance Control for Tape Drives)
• Jason H. Laks (Blade Pitch Control for Wind Turbines)
• Mathew A. Merkow (Blade Pitch Control for Wind Turbines)

Past Students