Research Information for Venkatarmanan Balakrishnan

Research Interests

• Systems and Control
• Numerical methods and optimization for systems and control
• Control theory
• Control system analysis and design
• Signal processing
• Fault-tolerance in robots
• Model-reduction of large-scale VLSI systems

Publications and Presentations

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Graduate Students

Selected activities

• Associate Editor of the Journal of Control Science and Engineering (JCSE), Hindawi Publishing Corporation, May 1, 2006-present.
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transcations on Automatic Control (IEEE-TAC), Jan 1, 2001 - Dec 31, 2003.
• Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), Jan 1, 2000 - Dec 31, 2005.
• Registration chair for the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska.
• Past chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Robust Control (part of the IEEE Control Systems Society), and editor of the TCRC Newsletter.
• Past chairman of the Working Group on Robust Control (part of the IEEE Control Systems Society), and editor of the RCWG Newsletter.
• ONR Young Investigator Research Program (May 1997-April 2000):
  • Gain-scheduled control of the ONR Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles
  • Robust Estimation Algorithms
  The psfile of the Final Report is available.
• Interim Director of Graduate Admissions, School of ECE, Purdue University, 1999-2000.
• Technical Program Committee member, 2000 American Control Conference
• Co-Registration chair for the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications and IEEE International Symposium on Computer Aided Control System Design , Hawaii
• Technical Program Committee member, 1999 American Control Conference