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CURRICULUM VITAE FIRDAUS E. UDWADIA Business Address Home Address University of Southern California 2100 South Santa Anita Avenue 430K Olin Hall, Los Angeles Arcadia California 90089-1453 California 91006-4611 Tel. No: (213) 740-0495 Tel. No: (626) 574-9642 FAX No: (213) 740-8071 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] AREAS OF Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, and Analytical Dynamics SPECIALIZATION Motion of Constrained Mechanical/Structural Systems Variational Methods and Optimal Control Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control Structural Dynamics, Structural Identification, and Earthquake Engineering Characteristics of Strong Ground Motion Structural Response and Control Linear and Nonlinear Structural Analysis Parametric and Nonparametric Structural Identification Computational Methods Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Structural Systems Optimization Methods and Dynamic Programming Computation of Lyapunov Exponents for NL Systems EMPLOYMENT Professor of Civil Engineering HISTORY Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California, 1983 - present Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering with Tenure Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California, 1986 – present Professor of Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business Administration

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Page 1: CURRICULUM VITAE FIRDAUS E. UDWADIA - USC · PDF fileCURRICULUM VITAE FIRDAUS E. UDWADIA Business Address Home Address University of Southern California 2100 South Santa Anita Avenue

CURRICULUM VITAE

FIRDAUS E. UDWADIA

Business Address Home Address

University of Southern California 2100 South Santa Anita Avenue430K Olin Hall, Los Angeles ArcadiaCalifornia 90089-1453 California 91006-4611Tel. No: (213) 740-0495 Tel. No: (626) 574-9642FAX No: (213) 740-8071 e-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]

AREAS OF Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, and Analytical DynamicsSPECIALIZATION

Motion of Constrained Mechanical/Structural SystemsVariational Methods and Optimal ControlNonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control

Structural Dynamics, Structural Identification, and EarthquakeEngineering

Characteristics of Strong Ground MotionStructural Response and ControlLinear and Nonlinear Structural AnalysisParametric and Nonparametric Structural Identification

Computational Methods

Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Structural SystemsOptimization Methods and Dynamic ProgrammingComputation of Lyapunov Exponents for NL Systems

EMPLOYMENT Professor of Civil EngineeringHISTORY Viterbi School of Engineering

University of Southern California, 1983 - present

Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering with TenureViterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California, 1986 – present

Professor of Information and Operations Management,Marshall School of Business Administration

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University of Southern California, 1986 – present

Professor of MathematicsCollege of Letter, Arts, and SciencesUniversity of Southern California, 1999 – present

Professor of Systems Architecture EngineeringViterbi Shool of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California, 2005 – present

Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engg. and Applied MechanicsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadena, California, 1993-1994

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering with TenureViterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California, 1977 - 1982

Assistant Professor of Civil EngineeringViterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California, 1974 -1976

Research Fellow in Applied Science and EngineeringDivision of Engineering and Applied ScienceCalifornia Institute of Technology, 1972 - 1974

EDUCATION Ph.D. California Institute of Technology,Civil Engineering, Pasadena, California, 1972

M.S. California Institute of Technology,Civil Engineering, Pasadena, California, 1969

MBA University of Southern California,Information and Operations Mangement, 1985

B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,Civil Engineering, India, 1968

SOME Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, ASCEJOURNAL (2002-2010)EDITORSHIPS Associate Editor, Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME

Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Computation

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Associate Editor, Associate Editor, Nonlinear Studies

Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Associate Editor, International Journal of Mathematical Modeling,Simulation, and Applications

Associate Editor, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

Associate Editor, Nonlinear Dynamics

Associate Editor, Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, ASME

Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PMM)

Honorary Editor, Journal of Mathematical Control Science andApplications

SOME AWARDS, Cited in Marquis’s Who’s Who in America, 1993 - presentHONORS & NASA Award for Outstanding Contributions toCITATIONS Technological Innovation, 1983

Press Release from the Royal Society of London on A New Perspectiveon Constrained Motion, 1992First Recipient of the President of India Distinguished AlumnusAward, Indian Institute of Technology, for Outstanding Reseach, 1983Cited in Marquis’s Who's Who in the World, 1988 - presentCited in Who's Who in California, 1984 - presentCited in Marquis’s Who's Who in Frontiers of Science andTechnology, 1985-presentCited in Who's Who in Technology Today, 1980 - presentCited in Marquis’s Who's Who in the West, 1987 - presentCited in Marquis’s Who's Who in Emerging Leaders in America,

1988 – presentOutstanding Achievement Award, AIAA , 2000University of Southern California, Senior Research Award, ViterbiSchool of Engineering, 2000Fellow, ASME, for Seminal Contributions to Analytical and StructuralDynamics, 2004Outstanding Technical Contributions Award, ASD, ASCE, 2005Fellow, AIAA, for Highly Original and Seminal Contributions toAerospace Engineering, 2006Distinguished Lecturership, Institute for Advanced Studies,Government of India, 2007Distinguished Lecturership, Soochow University, Taiwan, 2010

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Leitmann Lecture, UC Berkeley, 2015Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 8th World Congress onMathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace, and the Sciences,2010, Brazil

RECENT Chair, 12th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control, LosPROFESSIONAL Angeles, 2002.ACTIVITIES & Editor-in-Chief, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2002NATIONAL OFFICES 2010

General Technical Chair, 43rd Joint AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/SDMConference, Atlanta, 2000Keynote Speaker at:

International Conference in Honor of Pontryagin 1998, Moscow2nd International Conf. On Nonlinear Oscillations and Chaos, 2000,St. Petersburg4th International Conference in Avaition and Aerospace, 2002,Florida4th International Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, 2004, Orlando,Florida11th International Conference on Dynamics and Control(DINAME), 2005, Rio de Janeiro

World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, 2006, FloridaInternational Conference on Nonlinear Problems in AerospaceEngineering and Aviation, Budapest, 2006International Congress on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 2007,St. Petersburg, Russia.9th Chataev Conference on Dynamics, Stability and Control,Irkutsk, Russia, June 12-16, 2007.World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, Florida,2008.ICNPAA-2008, Mathematical Problems inEngineering, Aerospace and Sciences, Genoa, Italy, June2008US Academy of Mechanics Conference, New Orleans,June 17-20, 200813th International Conference on Dynamics and Control(DINAME), Brazil, 2009NSF Workshop on Dynamics and Control: Horizons in Infinite-Dimensional Deterministic and Stochastic Systems, UCLA, Jan.,200915th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control,Tossa de Mar, Spain, May 2009.8th World Comgress on Mathematical Problems in Engineering,Aerospace and the Sciences, Brazil, June, 2010

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12th Conference on Dynamical Systems Theory and Application,Opening Address, Lodz, Poland, December, 2013Organizing Committee, 5-13th US-European Workshop onDynamics and Control, 1992-2008Steering Committee, International Earth and Space Conference,2006, 2009Publications Committee, Journal of Aerospace Engineering,

1993–2011Member of Structural Dynamics Technical Committee, AIAA, 2004-presentMember of Dynamics and Controls Committee, ASCE AerospaceDivision, 1992-1995Member of Panel on Modeling and Identification, ASME, 1991-1993Member of the Committee on Dynamics, ASCE, 1983 - 1990, 1992-1995.Member of the Committee on Probabilistic Methods, ASCE, 1992-presentMember of the Committee on Probabilistic Methods, ASME, 2001-presentMember of the Steering Committee, Third ASCE Conference onDynamicsChair, Editorial Board Committee, Aerospace Division, ASCE, 2002-presentMember of the Air Force Task Force on System Identification forLarge Space Structures, 1985Session Chairman at more than eighteen Engineering MechanicsConferences

SOME RECENT Session Chair at 6th-15th US-European Workshop on Dynamics andSESSION Control, 1994-presentCHAIRMANSHIPS Session Chair AIAA AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures,AT CONFERENCES Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference Conference,

1998-presentSession Chair, 12th Applied Mechanics Conference, ASME, LosAngeles, 1994Session Chair, Engineering Mechanics Congress, 1995Session Chair, Engineering Mechanics Conference, 1995, 1996, 1997Session Chair, Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Daytona, 1995Session Chair, International Conference on Dynamics and ControlConference DINAME, Brazil, 1996, 2004, 2009Session Chair, Congress on Nonlinear Systems, Greece, 1996Session Chair, IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics and Control,

Amsterdam, 1996Session Chair, Structural Control, 11th World Conf. on Earthquake

Engineering, Mexico, 1996

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Session Chair, Numerous (over 18) Engineering MechanicsConferences, 1975-presentSession Chair, Numerous Applied Mechanics and ASMEConferences, 1985-present.Session Chair, Intl. Conference in Honor of Pontryagin, Moscow,1998Session Chair, 2nd Intl. Conference on Control and Chaos,St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000Session Chair 4th Intl. Conference in Avaition and Aerospace, 2002Session Chair, 6th Intl. Conference on Math. Problems in Engg. andAerospace Sciences, Budapest, 2006Session Chair, 8th World Congress on Mathematical Methods inEngineering, Aerospace and the Sciences, Brazil, 2010.Session Chair, Engineering Mechanics Conference, Los Angeles,2010.

BOOKS, AND SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE EDITORSHIPS

1. Editor, Special Issue in Applied Mechnaics and Mathematics, AppliedMathematics and Computation, 217, 2010

2. Editor, Special Issue on Dynamics and Control, Journal of the Franklin Institute,Vol. 347, 2010.

3. Advances in Dynamics and Control: Theory, Method, and Applications, Editors:S. Sivasundaram, J. V. Devi, F. E. Udwadia, I. Lasiecka, Cambridge ScientificPublishers

4. Editor, Dynamical Systems and Control, Taylor and Francis, London, 2004.

5. Editor, Special Issue on Dynamics and Control of Structural and MechanicalSytems, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 338, Nos. 2 & 3, 2001.

6. Editor, Dynamics and Control, Gordon and Breach, London, 1999.

7. Analytical Dynamics: A New Approach, with R. E. Kalaba, Cambridge UniversityPress, 1996.

8. Editor, Special Issue on Dynamics and Control, Applied Mathematics andComputation, 78, Nos. 2-3, 1996.

9. Editor, Special Issue on Dynamics and Control, Applied Mathematics andComputation, 70, Nos. 2-3, 1995.

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10. Editor, Special Issue on Applied Mechanics, Applied Mathematics andComputation, 67, Nos. 1-3, 1994.

PATENTS AWARDED

A method patent entitled, “Computer Control of Nonlinear Mechnical and Structural Systems,” F.E. Udwadia, Patent Number US 6,266,578 B1, US Patent and Trademark Office, July, 2001.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Mechanics and Control, Plenum Press, 1993.

2. Topics in Mathematical Physics, Allied Publishers, New York,1995.

3. Recent Trends in Optimization Theory and Applications, World Scientific, Singapore,1995.

4. Complex Dynamical Systems with Incomplete Information, Shaker Verlag, Germany, 1999.

5. Dynamics and Control, Gordon and Breach, London, 1999.

6. Dynamical Systems and Control, Chapman and Hall, London, 2003.

7. Advances in Dynamics and Control, Chapman and Hall, London, 2004.

8. Advances in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Science, Nauka, 2009.

9. Advances in Dynamics and Control: Theory, Method, and Applications, CambridgeScientific Publishers, 2009.

10. Advances in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Method, and Applications,Cambridge Scientific Publishers, 2009.

11. Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications, Springer, 2011.

12. Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications, Springer, 2013.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Udwadia, F. E., and Mylapilli, H., "Energy Control of Inhomogeneous NonlinearLattices", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 471, pp. 20140694, 2015.

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Udwadia, F. E., and Mylapilli, H., Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and TrackingControl of Nonlinear Systems: Connections and Closed-form Results, Nonlinear Dynamics andSystems Theory, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 73-89, 2015.

Udwadia F. E, A New Approach to Stable Optimal Control of Complex Nonlinear DynamicalSystems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, March, Vol. 81, 031001-1 to 031001- 6, 2014.

Udwadia F. E., P. Koganti, T. Wanichanon, and D. Stipanovic, Decentralized Control ofNonlinear Dynamical Systems, International Journal of Control, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 827-843,2014.

Udwadia, F.E., Wanichanon, T., and Cho, H., "Methodology for Satellite Formation-Keeping inthe Presence of System Uncertainties.", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics,Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 1611-1624, 2014.

Udwadia F. E., and Thanapat Wanichanon, Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Multi-bodyMechanical Systems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 81, 041021-1 to 041021-11, 2014.

H. Cho and F. E. Udwadia, Explicit Control Force and Torque Determination for SatelliteFormation-Keeping with Attitude Requirements, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and

Dynamics, Vol. 2, March-April, pp. 589-605, 2013.

Udwadia F. E. and H. Cho, First Integrals and Solutions to Duffing-van der Pol Type Equations,Journal of Applied Mechanics, July, Vol. 80, 041023-1, 041023-10, 2013.

Udwadia F. E., and Thanapat Wanichanon, On General Nonlinear Constrained MechanicalSystems, Numerical Algebra, Control, and Optimization, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 425-443, 2013.

Udwadia F. E. and H. Cho, Lagrangians for Damped Linear Multi-degree of Freedom Systems,Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 80, pp. 041023-1 to 041023-10, July, 2013.

Udwadia F. E. and A. Schutte, A Unified Approach to Rigid Body Rotational Dynamics andControl, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 468, pp. 395-414, 2012

Udwadia F. E., On the longitudinal vibrations of a bar with viscous boundaries: Super-stability,super-instability, and loss of damping, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 50,pp. 79-100, 2011.

Schutte A. and F. E. Udwadia, New Approach to the Modeling of Complex Multi-bodyDynamical Systems , Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 78, 021018-1 to 021018-11, 2011.

Udwadia F. E., G. Leitmann, and H. Cho, Some Further Remarks on Hamilton's Principle,Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 78, 011014-1 to 011014-4, 2011.

Udwadia F. E. and G. da Massa, Sphere rolling on a moving surface: Application of thefundamental equation of constrained motion, Simulation, Modeling Practice and Theory, Vol.19, pp. 1118-1138, 2011.

Udwadia F. E. and T. Wanichanon, Hamel's Paradox and the Foundations of Analytical Dynamics,Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 217, pp. 1253-1265, 2010.

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Udwadia F. E. and T. Wanichanon, Hamel's Paradox and the Foundations of AnalyticalDynamics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 217, pp. 1253-1265, 2010.

Udwadia F. E. and A. D. Schutte, An Alternative Derivation of the Quaternion Equations ofMotion for Rigid-Body Rotational Motion, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 77, 044505, 1-4,2010.

Udwadia F. E. and A. D. Schutte, Equations of Motion for General Constrained Systems inLagrangian Mechanics, Acta Mechanica, Vol. 213, pp. 111-130, 2010.

H. Cho and F. E. Udwadia, Explicit Solution to the Full Nonlinear Problem of Satellite FormationKeeping, Acta Astronautica, Vol. 67, pp. 369-387, 2010.

Udwadia F. E. and Schutte A., "Equations of Motion for General Constrained System inLagrangian Mechanics," Acta Mechanica, Vol. 213, 2010, pp. 111-130.

Udwadia F. E. and Schutte A., "An Alternative Derivation of the Quaternion Equations of Motionfor Rigid-Body Rotational Dynamics," Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 77, July, 2010,044505.

Udwadia F. E. and Wanichanon T., "Hamel’s Paradox and the Foundations of Analytical Dynamics,"Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 217, 2010, pp. 1253-1265.

Cho H., and Udwadia F. E., "Explicit Solution to the Full Nonlinear Problem for SatelliteFormation-keeping, " Acta Astronautica, Vol. 67, 2010, pp. 369-387.

Udwadia F. E. “A Note on Non-Proportional Damping,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 135,pp. 1248-1256, November, 2009.

M. S. Waters, M. Y. El-Naggar, L. Hsu,3 C. A. Sturm, A. Luttge, F. E. Udwadia, D. G. Cvitkovitch, S. D.Goodman, and K. H. Nealson, “Simultaneous Interferometric Measurement of Corrosive orDemineralizing Bacteria and Their Mineral Interfaces,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol.75, No. 5, 2009, pp. 1445–1449.

Waters, M. S., Salas, E. C., Goodman, S. D., Udwadia, F. E. and Nealson, K. H., “Early detection ofoxidized surfaces using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 as a tool,” Biofouling, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 163 -172,2009.

Udwadia, F. E. and Farahani, A., "Accelerated Runge-Kutta Methods", Discrete Dynamics in Natureand Society, Vol. 2008, Article ID 790619, 38 pages, 2008.

Udwadia, F. "Optimal Tracking Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems", Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of London, Series A, Vol. 464, pp. 2341-2363, 2008.

Waters, M.S., Sturm, C.A., El-naggar, M.Y., Luttge, A., Udwadia, F.E., Cvitkovitch, D.G., Goodman,S.D., and Nealson, K.H. "In Search of the Microbe/Mineral Interface: Quantitative Analysis of Bacteriaon Metal Surfaces Using Vertical Scanning Interferometry", Geobiology, Vol. 6 , pp. 254-262, 2008.

Peters, J., Mistry, M., Udwadia, F., Nakanishi, J., Schaal, S., "A Unifying Framework for Robot Controlwith Redundant DOFs", Autoomous Robot, Vol. 24 , pp. 1-12, 2008.

Udwadia, F., Han, B., "Synchronization of Multiple Chaotic Gyroscopes Using the FundamentalEquation of Mechanics", Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 75 ,02011, 2008.

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Di Carlo T., Khoshnevis B., and Udwadia F., Whole-Brain Thinking in Systems Architecting, Journal ofSystems Engineering, DOI 10.1002/sys.20121, 2008

D. Kim, F. E. Udwadia and W. Proskurowski, “A Perturbation Approach to Approximate InertialManifolds,” International Journal of Computation and Applied Mathematics, 2, pp. 15-41, 2007.

Udwadia F. E and P. Phohomsiri, “Generalized LM-Inverse of a Matrix Augmented by a Column Vector,”Applied Mathematics and Computation, 190, pp. 99-1006, 2007.

Udwadia, F. E. and P. Phohomsiri, "Explicit Poincare equations of motion for general constrained systems.Part I. Analytical results," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1825, pp. 1-14, 2007.

Udwadia, F. E. and P. Phohomsiri, "Explicit Poincare equations of motion for general constrained systems.Part II. Applications to multi-body dynamics and nonlinear control," Proceedings of the Royal Society ofLondon, Series A, Doi: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1830, pp. 1-12, 2007.

Sturm, C. A., Waters, M. S., Arvidson, R. S., El-Naggar, M., Goodman, S. D., Nealson, K. H., Luttge, A.,Udwadia, F. E., “Bugs in Stress: microbial control of surface reactivity in a stress field,” Geochimica etCosmochimica Acta, Vol. 71, A982, 2007.

Udwadia F. E., Hubertus von Bremen, Phailaung Phohomsiri, "Time-delayed control design for activecontrol of structures: principles and applications," Structural Control Health Monioring., Vol. 14 (1), pp.27-61, 2007.

Udwadia, F. E., G. Leitmann, and L. Lambertini, "A Dynamical Model of Terrorism," Discrete Dynamicsin Nature and Society, Doi:10.1155/DDNS/2006/85653, pp. 1-32, 2006.

Udwadia, F. E. and Phohomsiri P., "Active control of structures using time delayed positive feedbackproportional control designs," Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Vol. 13 (1) pp. 536-552, 2006.

Udwadia, F. E. and Phohomsiri P., "Recursive Formulas for the Generalized LM-Inverse of a Matrix,"Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 131 (1) pp. 1-16, October 2006.

Udwadia, F. E., "Recent Advances in Multi-body Dynamics and Nonlinear Control," J. of the Braz. Soc. ofMech. Sci. & Eng., Vol. XXVIII (3) pp. 311-315, July-September 2006.

Udwadia, F. E. and Phohomsiri P., "Explicit equations of motion for constrained mechanical systems withsingular mass matrices and applications to multi-body dynamics," Proceedings of the Royal Society, SeriesA, 462, pp. 2097-2117, July, 2006.

Phohomsiri P., Udwadia, F. E., and H. Von Bremmen, "Time-Delayed Positive Velocity Feedback ControlDesign for Active Control of Structures," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 132 (6) pp. 690-703,June 2006.

Udwadia F. E., “Structural Identification and Damage Detection from Noisy Modal Data,” Journal ofAerospace Engineering, 18 (3), pp. 179-187, 2005.

Udwadia F. E., R. Kalaba, and Y. Fan, Is Analytical Dynamics a a Theoretical or Experimental Science?,Nonlinear Analysis, 63, pp. 692-697, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E., "On Constrained Motion", Applied Mathematics and Computation, 164, pp. 313-320,2005.

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Udwadia, F. E., R. Kalaba, Y. Fan, Is Analytic Dynamics a Theoretical or Experimental Science?,Nonlinear Analysis, 63, 692-697, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E, Phohomsiri, P., Recursive Determination of Generalized Moore-Penrose M-Inverse of aMatrix, Journal of Optimization Theroy and Applications, 127, 639-663, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E, Equations of Motion for Constrained Multi-body Systems and their Control, Journal ofOptimization Theroy and Applications, 127, 627-638, 2005.

Fan Y., Natsuyama H., Kalaba R. E., and Udwadia F. E., Reflections on the Gauss Principle of LeastConstraint, Journal of Optimization Theroy and Applications, 127, 475-484, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E., "Boundary Control, Quiet Boundaries, Super-stability, and Super-instability," AppliedMathematics and Computation, 164, pp. 327-349, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E., "New General Principle of Mechanics and Its Application to General NonidealNonholonomic Systems," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 131 (4), pp. 444-450, 2005.

Udwadia, F. E, Kalaba, R. E., Phohomsiri, P., "Mechanical Systems with Nonideal Constraints: ExplicitEquations Without the Use of Generalized Inverses," Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 71 (5), pp. 618-621, 2004.

Wiederein R. and Udwadia F, Global Patterns from Local Interactions: A Dynamical Systems Approach,Intl. Journ. of Bifurcations and Chaos, 14 ( 8), pp. 2555-2578, 2004.

P. Phohomsiri and F. E. Udwadia, Acceleration of Runge-Kutta Integration Schemes, Discrete Dynamicsin Nature and Society, 2, pp. 307-314, 2004

R. E. Kalaba, H. Natsuyama F. E. Udwadia, An Extension of Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint, Journ.of General Systems, 33, pp. 63-69, 2004

Udwadia F. E., A New Perspective on the Tracking Control of Nonlinear Structural and MechanicalSystems, Proc. of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 459, pp. 1783-1800, 2003

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, Recursive Determination of the {1,4}-Generalized Inverse, Journ.Optimization Theory and Appl., 117, pp. 1-7, 2003

Udwadia F. E., H. von Bremen, R. Kumar, M. Hossienei, Time Delayed Control of Structural Systems,Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 32, pp. 495-535, 2003.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, What is the General Form of the Explicit Equations of Motion forConstrained Mechanical Systems?, Journ. Applied Mechanics, 69, pp. 335-339, 2002.

Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, Computational Explorations into the Dynamics of Rings of CoupledNonlinear Oscillators, Applied Math. and Computation, 129, pp. 55-85, 2002.

Udwadia F. E., and H. von Bremen, Computation of Lyapunov Characteristic Exponents for ContinuousDynamical Systems, Zeitschrift fur Angawandte Mathematik und Physik, 53, pp.123-146, 2002.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, On the Foundations of Analytical Dynamics, Intl. Journ. NonlinearMechanics, 37, pp. 1079-1090, 2002.

Udwadia F. E., and R. Kalaba, Explicit Equations of Motion for Systems with Non-Ideal Constraints,Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 68, pp. 462-467, 2001.

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Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, An Efficient and Stable Approach for Computation of LyapunovCharacteristic Exponents of Continuous dynamical System, Applied Math. and Computation, 121, pp.219-259, 2001.

Udwadia F. E., Editorial Preface, Special Issue on Dynamics and Control, Journ. Franklin Institute, 338,pp. 111-112, 2001.

Kalaba R. and F. Udwadia, Analytical dynamics With Constraint Forces that Do Work, Applied Math andComputation, 121, pp. 211-217, 2001.

Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, Computation of the Largest p-Lyapunov Characteristic Exponents forNonlinear Dynamical Systems, Applied Math and Computation, Vol. 114, No. 2, pp. 205-214, 2000

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, Nonideal Constraints and Lagrangian Dynamics, Journal of AerospaceEngineering, 13, No. 1, pp. 17-22, 2000

Udwadia F. E., Fundamental principles of Lagrangian dynamics: Mechanical systems with non-ideal,holonomic, and nonholonomic constraints, Journ. Math. Analy. & Appl., 252 (1), pp. 341-355, 2000.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kalaba, General Forms for the Recursive Determination of Generalized Inverses,Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 101, No. 3, pp. 509-523, 1999.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kalaba, A Unified Approach for the Recursive Determination of GeneralizedInverses, to appear in Comp. Math. Appl., 37, pp. 125-130, 1999.

Udwadia F. E. and N. Raju, Some global properties of a pair of coupled maps: Quasi-symmetry,Periodicity, and Synchronicity, Physica D, 111, pp. 16-26, 1998.

Udwadia F. E., M. Hosseini and B. Wada, Distributed Control of Large-Scale Structural Systems, invitedpaper for Special Issue on Structural Control, Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and InfrastructureEngineering, 13, pp. 377-387, 1998.

Udwadia F. E. and W. Proskurowski, A Memory-Matrix-Based Identification Methodology for Structuraland Mechanical Systems, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 27, 1465-1481, 1998.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, The Gibbs-Appell Equation and Generalized Inverse Forms, Quarterly ofApplied Mathematics, 56, No. 2, pp. 277-288, 1998.

Udwadia F. E. and N. Raju, Dynamics of Coupled Nonlinear Maps and its Application to EcologicalModeling, Applied Math and Computation, 82, pp. 137-179, 1997.

Udwadia F. E., Equations of Motion for Structural and Mechanical Systems: a unified approach,International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, 31, No. 6, pp. 951-958, 1997.

S. Beifus, W. Proskurowski and F. E. Udwadia, A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Incorporating ManagerialThinking in Prediction and Control, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 92, No. 2, pp. 225-248, 1997.

H. Von Bremmen, F. E. Udwadia and W. Proskurowsi, An Efficient Method for the Computation ofLyapunov Numbers in Dynamical Systems, Physica D, 110, pp. 1-16, 1997.

Udwadia, F.E., R. E. Kalaba, and Eun Hee-Chang, “Equations of Motion for Constrained MechanicalSystems and the Extended D’Alembert Principle,” Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 56, pp. 321-331,1997.

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C. Itiki, R. Kalaba and F. E. Udwadia, Inequality Constraints in the Process of Jumping, AppliedMathematics and Computation, 78, pp. 163-173, 1996.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, Equations of Motion for Mechanical Systems, Journal of AerospaceEngineering, 9, pp. 64-69, 1996.

Udwadia F. E., R. E. Kalaba and M. Z. Nashed, On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution of theEquation of Motion for Constrained Mechanical Systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 1, pp.37-39, 1995.

Kalaba R. E., F. E. Udwadia and R. Xu, The Bellman-Gauss-Vasudevan Principle of Constrained Motion,Topics in Mathematical Physics, Allied Publishers, 1995.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, The Geometry of Constrained Motion, Zeitschrift fur AngawandteMechanik und Mathematik, 75, No. 8, pp. 637-640, 1995.

R. Kalaba, F. Udwadia, R. Xu and C. Itiki, The Equivalence of Lagrange's Equations of Motion of the FirstKind and the Generalized Inverse Form, Nonlinear World, 2, pp. 519-526, 1995.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, An Alternate Proof for the New Equations of Motion for ConstrainedMechanical Systems, Applied Math. and Computation, 70, pp. 339-342, 1995.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kumar, Time-Delayed Control of Classically Damped Structural Systems,International Journal of Control, 60, No. 5, pp. 687-713, 1994.

Xu. R, F. E. Udwadia, J. Moore and R. Kalaba, Lagrange's Problem Without Lagrange Multipliers: TheHolonomic Case, Nonlinear World, 1, pp. 229-243, 1994.

Kalaba R. E. and F. E. Udwadia, Lagrangian Mechanics, Gauss’s Principle and Generalized Inverses: NewEquations of Motion for Nonholonomically Constrained Discrete Dynamical Systems, Quarterly ofApplied Mathematics, 52, No. 2, pp. 229-242, 1994.

Udwadia F. E., A Methodology for Optimal Sensor Locations for Parameter Identification of Structural andMechanical Systems, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 120, No. 2, pp. 368-390, 1994.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kumar, Converge of Iterative Methods for Nonclassically Damped DynamicSystems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 61, No. 1, pp. 61-97, 1994.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kumar, New Iterative Schemes for Nonclassically Damped Dynamic Systems, Inter-national Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 23, No. 2, pp. 137-152, 1994

Kalaba R. E. and F. E. Udwadia, Equations of Motion for Nonholonomically Constrained DiscreteDynamical Systems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 60, pp. 662-668, September, 1993.Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, On Motion, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 330, No. 3, pp. 571-577,1993.

Kalaba R. E. and Udwadia F. E., An Associative Memory Approach to the Rapid Identification ofNonlinear Structural and Mechanical Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 76, No.2, pp. 207-223, 1993.

Udwadia F. E., Further Results on the Iterative Solution of Nonclassically Damped Linear DynamicSystems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 60, No. 1, pp. 235-239, 1993.

Kalaba R. E. and F. E. Udwadia, On Constrained Motion, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 51, No.1, pp. 85-86, 1992.

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Udwadia F. E., Intelligent Control of Tall Building Structures Subjected to Strong Earthquake GroundShaking, Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain, July 14-19, 1992.

Udwadia F. E., Noncollocated Control of Continuous Systems with Tip-Inertias Using Time Delays,Applied Mathematics and Computation, 47, No. 1, pp. 47-75, 1992.

Udwadia F. E., Some Convergence Results Related to JOR Iterative Schemes used in Structural MechanicsDealing with Positive-Definite Symmetric Matrices, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 47, No. 1,pp. 37-45, 1992.

Kalaba R. E. and F. E. Udwadia, An Adaptive Learning Approach To the Identification of Structural andMechanical Systems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 67-75, 1991.

Udwadia F. E., Noncollocated Point Control of Nondispersive Continuous Systems Using Time Delays,Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 23-63, 1991.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Esfandiary, Nonclassically Damped Dynamic Systems: An Iterative Approach,Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 57, pp. 423-433, June 1990.

Udwadia F. E., Optimal Sensor Locations for Structural Identification, Air Force Astronautics Laboratory,Report AFAL-TR-87-087, March 1989.

Guttalu R. and F. E. Udwadia, Period Three May not Mean Chaos: An Example of a Piecewise LinearMap, Journal of Computational Mechanics, 5, pp. 113-118, 1989.

Eugene E. Denman, Timothy K. Hasselman, Jer-Nan Juang, John L. Junkins, Manohar Kamat, C. T. Sun,Firdaus Udwadia, and V. B. Venkayya, Identification of Large Structures on Orbit : A survey, ActaAstronautica, 20, pp. 21-27, 1989.

Udwadia F. E., Some Results on Maximum Entropy Distributions for Parameters Known to Lie in FiniteIntervals, SIAM Reviews, 31, No. 1, pp. 103-109, March 1989.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Guttalu, Chaotic Dynamics of a Piecewise Cubic Map, Physical Reviews, Series A,40, No. 7, pp. 4032-4044, 1989.

Udwadia F. E. and H. Flashner, Tradeoffs between Identification and Control in Dynamic Systems,Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 939-945, December 1988.

Udwadia F. E., M. Dryja, and F. Mantel, On the Optimal Design of Structures Subjected to Periodic BaseExcitations, SIAM Journal of Optimization and Control, 26, No. 6, pp. 1306-1320, 1988.

M. Salama and J. Garba, L. Demsetz and F. E. Udwadia, Simultaneous Optimization and Control ofStructures, Journal of Computational Mechanics, 3, pp. 275-282, 1988.

Udwadia F. E., Uniqueness in the Identification of a Bending Beam Modeled by Finite Elements, SIAMJournal of Applied Mathematics, 48, No. 6, pp. 1350-1361, 1988.

Udwadia F. E., The Dynamics of Uncertain Systems: Part II, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 22,No. 2-3, pp. 151-187, 1987.

Udwadia F. E., The Dynamics of Uncertain Systems: Part I, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 22,No. 2-3, pp. 115-150, 1987.

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Bloch R. and F. E. Udwadia, A Constitutive Relation for Ottawa Sand, Journal of EngineeringMechanics, 112, No. 3, pp. 238-248, 1986.

Udwadia F. E., Some Results on the Optimal Spacing of Measurements in the Identification of StructuralSystems, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 43, No. 3, pp. 263-274, 1985.

Udwadia F. E., Uniqueness Results in the Identification of Soil and Structural Systems, SIAM Journal ofApplied Mathematics, 45, No. 4, pp. 674-685, 1985.

Udwadia F. E., Identification of Structural Systems from Forced Vibration Testing, Canadian Journal ofApplied Mechanics, 9, No. 1, pp. 19-25, 1985.

Udwadia F. E. and D. K. Sharma, On the Identification of Vibrating Systems modeled by HyperbolicPartial Differential Equations, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 42, No. 4, pp. 411-424, 1985.

Udwadia F. E., J. Garba, and A. Ghodsi, Some Problems in the Identification of Structural andGeotechnical Systems, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 110, No. 9, pp. 1409-1432, 1984.

Westermo B. and F. E. Udwadia, The Dynamic Response of a Sliding Oscillator to Harmonic Excitation,International Journal of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 11, 135-146, 1983.

Udwadia F. E. and S. Tabaie, Pulse Control of Structural and Mechanical Systems, Journal ofEngineering Mechanics, 107, No. 6, 1011-1028, 1981.

Udwadia F. E. and S. Tabaie, Pulse Control of a Single-Degree-of- Freedom System, Journal ofEngineering Mechanics, 107, No. 6, 997-1009, 1981.

Udwadia F. E., Controllability, Observability and Identification of Classical Linear Dynamic Systems,Solid Mechanics Archives, 6, No. 2, pp. 193-211, 1981.

Udwadia F. E., A Note on the Reliability of Redundant Systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics andComputations, 8, pp. 35-49, 1981.

Udwadia F. E. and C. P. Kuo, Nonparametric Identification of a Class of Close-Coupled Dynamic Systems,International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 9, pp. 385-409, 1981.

Masri S. F., V. Z. Marmarelis, F. E. Udwadia, T. K. Caughey, and G. Jong, Analytical and ExperimentalStudies of the Modeling of a Class of Nonlinear Systems, Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design,55, pp. 471-491, 1980.

Udwadia F. E. and N. Jerath, Time Variations of Structural Properties During Strong Ground Shaking,Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 106, No. 1, pp. 111-121, 1980.

Trifunac M. D. and F. E. Udwadia, Effect of Initial Base Motion on Response Spectra: A Discussion,Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 105, No. 1, pp. 204-206, 1980.

Udwadia F. E. and H.C. Miura, A Methodology for Optimally Locating Strong Motion Arrays, Inter-national Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 8, pp. 439-453, 1980.

Shah P. C. and F. E. Udwadia, A Method for Estimation of the Crustal Velocity Structure IncludingRelocation of Seismic Events from First P-Wave Arrivals, Report CE 78-17, University of SouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles.

Udwadia F. E., P. C. Shah, and D. K. Sharma, Uniqueness of Damping and Stiffness Distributions in theStudy of Soil and Structural Systems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 45, pp. 181-187, 1978.

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Shah P.C. and F. E. Udwadia, A Methodology for Optimal Sensor Locations for Identification of DynamicSystems, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 45, pp. 188-196, 1978.

Udwadia F. E. and D. K. Sharma, Some Uniqueness Results Related to Building Structural Identification,SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 34, No. 1, pp. 104-118, 1978.

Masri S. F. and F. E. Udwadia, Transient Response of a Shear Beam to Correlated Boundary Excitation,Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 44, pp. 487-491, 1977.

Yoganathan A., F. E. Udwadia, R. Gupta, J. W. Miller and W. Corcoran, Use of the Fast Fourier Transformfor the Frequency Analysis of the Second Heart Sound in Normal Man, Medical and BiologicalEngineering Journal, 14, pp. 455-460, 1976.

Yoganathan A., F. E. Udwadia, R. Gupta, J. W. Miller and W. Corcoran, Use of the Fast FourierTransform for the Frequency Analysis of the First Heart Sound in Normal Man, Medical and BiologicalEngineering Journal, 14, pp. 69-73, 1976.

Gupta R., F. E. Udwadia, J. W. Miller, A. Yoganathan, B. Kim and W. Corcoran, Spectral Analysis ofArterial Sounds: A Noninvasive Method of Studying Arterial Disease, Medical and BiologicalEngineering Journal, 13, pp. 700-705, 1976.

Marmarelis P. Z. and F. E. Udwadia, Identification of Building Structural Systems , Part II: The NonlinearCase, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 66, pp. 152- 171, 1976.

Udwadia F. E. and P. Z. Marmarelis, Identification of Building Structural Systems , Part I: The LinearCase, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 66, pp. 125- 151, 1976.

Udwadia F. E., Full-Scale Three Dimensional Test of Structural Deformations During Forced Excitation ofa Nine-Story Reinforced Concrete Building, Proceedings of the U.S. National Conference on EarthquakeEngineering, 1975.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Time and Amplitude Dependent Response of Structures, InternationalJournal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2, pp. 359-378, 1974.

Trifunac M. D. and F. E. Udwadia, Variation of Ground Shaking in the Los Angeles Area, Bulletin of theSeismological Society of America, 64, pp. 1429-1454, 1975.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Parkfield, California, Earthquake of June 17, 1966: A ThreeDimensional Moving Dislocation Model, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 64, pp. 511-533, 1974.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Characterization of Response Spectra through the Statistics ofOscillator Response, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 64, pp. 205-219, 1974.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, The Fourier Transform, Response Spectra, and Their Relationship tothe Statistics of Oscillator Response, Engineering Research Laboratory, Report EERL 73-01, CaliforniaInstitute of Technology, 1973.

Trifunac M. D., F. E. Udwadia, and A. G. Brady, Analysis of Errors in Digitized Strong MotionAccelerograms, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 63, pp. 157-187, 1973.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Ambient Vibration Tests of Full-Scale Structures, Proceedings of theFifth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1973.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Comparisons of Earthquake and Microtremor Ground Motions,Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 63, pp. 1227-1253, 1973.

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Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Damped Fourier Spectrum and Response Spectra, Bulletin of theSeismological Society of America, 63, pp. 1775-1783, 1973.

Udwadia F. E., Investigation of Earthquake and Microtremor Ground Motions, Earthquake EngineeringResearch Laboratory, Report EERL 72-02, California Institute of Technology, 1972.

Hudson D. E., M. D. Trifunac, F. E. Udwadia, A. Vijayaraghavan, and A. G. Brady, Strong MotionEarthquake Accelerograms, Volume IV - Fourier Amplitude Spectra, Earthquake Engineering ResearchLaboratory, Report EERL 72-05, California Institute of Technology, 1972.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN DECISION THEORY AND MANAGEMENTSCIENCE

S. Beifus, W. Proskurowski and F. E. Udwadia, A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Incorporating ManagerialThinking in Prediction and Control, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 92, No. 2, pp. 225-248, 1997.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kumar, Impact of Customer Coconstruction in Product/Service Markets, InternationalJournal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 40, pp. 261-272, 1991.

Udwadia F. E. and I. Mitroff, Crisis Management and the Organizational Mind: Multiple Models for CrisisManagement from Field Data, International Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol.40, pp. 33-52, 1991.

Udwadia F. E., Creativity and Innovation in Organizations, International Journal of TechnologicalForecasting and Social Change, Vol. 38, pp. 65-80, 1990.

Udwadia F. E., Super Image Managers: A Growing Concern for Productivity Decline, ASCE Journal forManagement in Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 228-236, July 1989.

Udwadia F. E. and T. Agmon, Trade Deficits: A Look Beyond the Economic View, International Journal ofTechnological Forecasting and Social Change, 33, No. 2, pp. 109-118, 1988.

Udwadia F. E. and I. Mitroff, Errors of the Third Kind in Engineering, International Journal ofTechnological Forecasting and Social Change, 33, No. 1, p 1-12,1988.

Mitroff I., P. Srivastava, and F. E. Udwadia, Effective Crisis Management, Academy of ManagementExecutive, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 282-292, 1987.

Udwadia F. E., Cooperation in Space Exploration: An Assessment of Economic Risks, International Journalof Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 31, No. 2, pp. 173-188, 1987.

Udwadia F. E., Management Situations and the Engineering Mindset, International Journal of TechnologicalForecasting and Social Change, 29, pp. 387-397, 1986.

Udwadia F. E., Organizational Management -- A Look Beyond the Rational View, ASCE Journal ofEngineering Management, ASCE, 2, No. 1, pp. 57-68, 1986.

Canto V. and F. E. Udwadia, The Effect of Immigration Quotas on the Average Quality of Migrating Laborand Income Distribution, The Southern Economic Journal, 52, No. 3, pp. 785-793, 1986.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Control of Uncertain Multi-body Systems, IUTAM Workshop, Proceedings of the IUTAMconference on Design of Uncertain Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, 2014.

Synthesis of Stable Optimal Controls from Lyapunov Based Constraints, Proceedings of theASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Prasanth Koganti and F. E. Udwadia,DETC2013-12395, August 4-7, pp. 1-9, Portland, Oregon, 2013.

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Energy Control of Nonlinear Non-homogeneous Chains, F. E. Udwadia and Harsha Mylapilli,IMECE2013-63251, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Nov.13-21, pp. 1-9,San Diego, California, 2013.

Nonlinear Damping Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Multi-body Systems, F. E. Udwadia, and T.Wanincanon, 4th TSME International Conference on Mechnaical Engineering, October 16-18, pp.1-15, Pattaya, Thailand, 2013.

Connections between Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and Tracking Control ofNonlinear Systems, F. E. Udwadia, 12th Conference on Dynamical Systems Theory andApplications, December 2-5, pp. 27-38, Lodz, Poland, 2013.

Formation-Keeping for Uncertain Satellites, F. E. Udwadia, T. Wanichanon, and H. Cho, 4 th

TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, October 16-18, pp. 1-13, Pattaya,Thailand, 2013.

A Closed Form Approach to Tracking Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems Using theFundamental Equation, F. Udwadia and T. Wanichanon, Proceedings of the 13 th ASCE Earth andSpace Conference, Pasadena, California, pp. 1399-1348, 2012.

A unified approach to the modeling and control of multi-scale dynamical systems, F. Udwadi andA. Schutte, Proceedings of the 13th ASCE Earth and Space Conference, Pasadena, California, pp.1361-1370, 2012.

Inverse Problem for Lagrangian Dynamics for Multi-degree-of freedom Systems with LinearDamping, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Nov.2012.

Application of the generalized transfer equation to mission planning, D. Garber, and F. Udwadia,Proceedings of the 22nd AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Conference, Charleston, SC, Paper No. AAS12-267, 2012

New solutions to the exact formation-keeping control of satellites with attitude constraints, F.Udwadi and H. Cho, Proceedings of the 13th ASCE Earth and Space Conference, Pasadena,California, pp. 1423-1432, 2012.

A constrained motion approach to the Synchronization of Multiple Coupled Slave Gyroscopes, H.Mylapilli and F. Udwadia, Proceedings of the 13th ASCE Earth and Space Conference, Pasadena,California, pp. 1349-1360, 2012.

Connections between Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and Tracking Control ofNonlinear Systems, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung,Taiwan, September 5,2010.

Accelerated Runge Kutta Methods, Soochow University, Distinguished Lecturer,September 2, Taipe, Taiwan, 2010.

Udwadia F. E, The Geometry of Constrained Motion, Soochow, University, DistinguishedLecturer, August 31, Taipe, Taiwan, 2010.

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Udwadia F. E, Connections between Constrained Motion and Nonlinear Control, University ofCalifornia, Irvine, June 2, 2010.

Udwadia F. E., A New Formulation for Rotational Dynamics and Control, Joint ASCE- ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, 2009, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Udwadia F. E., Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and Nonlinear Control, NSFWorkshop on Dynamics and Control: Horizons in Infinite-Dimensional Deterministic andStochastic Systems, UCLA, January 30-31, 2009

Udwadia F. E., Advances in Dynamics and Control of Nonlinear Systems, First American Academy ofMechanics Conference, New Orleans, June 17-20, 2008.

Udwadia F. E., Optimal Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems, ICNPAA-2008, Mathematical Problems inEngineering, Aerospace and Sciences, Genoa, Italy, June 25-27, 2008.

Udwadia F. E., Duality Between Constrained Motion and Nonlinear Control, First International Academy ofMechanics Conference, New Orleans, June 17-20, 2008.

Schutte, A., Udwadia, F. E., and Lam, T., "Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of a Dumbbell Spacecraft UsingConstrained Motion," Earth and Space Conference 2008, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008.

Schutte, A. and Udwadia, F. E. "Lagrangian Formulation of Rigid-Body Rotational Dynamics and Control",First American Academy of Mechanics Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 17-20, 2008.

Somarakis, C., Papavassilopoulos, G., Udwadia, F., A Dynamic Rule for Cellular Automata, EuropeanConference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS), Nicosia, Cyprus, June 3-6, 2008.

Udwadia F. E., Duality between Tracking Control and Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems,Proceedings of the International Conference on Variational Methods and Aerospace Engineering, Erice,September, 2007.

Schutte A. and Udwadia F. E., Formation Flight of Multiple Rigid Body Spacecraft, Proceedings of the 48th

SDM Conference, Hawaii, April, 2007.

Schutte A., T. Lam, and Udwada F., Multibody Dynamics and Control of Spacecraft Systems, Proceedings ofthe 14th Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Zvenegorod, Russia, 2007.

Han B. and Udwadia F. E., Synchronization of Chaotic Gyroscopes, Proceedings of the InternationalCongress on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, St. Petersburg, June, 2007.

Udwadia F. and P. Pohomsiri, Explicit Poincare Equations of Motion, Proceedings of the 9th ChataeyevConference on Dynamical Systems and Control, Irkutsk, Russia, June, 2007.

Udwadia F. E., The Geometry of Contrained Motion, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference onMath. Problems in Engineering and Aerospace Sciences, Budapest, June, 2006.

Udwadia F. E. and P. Phohomsiri, Constrained Equtions of Motion for Singular Mass Matrices, Proceedingsof the 13th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Wiesensteig, Germany, May, 2005.

Jan Peters, Udwadia F. E. and M. Mistry, A Unified Methodology for Robotic Control, Proceedings of theIEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, Canada, August, 2005.

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Udwadia F. E., Is Analytical Dynamics an Experimental or a Theoretical Science?, Proceedings of the 6th

World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, September, 20004.

Udwadia F. E., New Methods for Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems, ICTAM, Proceedings of the XXIInternational Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, August, 2004.

Udwadia F. E., , Recent Advances in Analytical Dynamics, Proceedings of the World Congress ofNonlinear Analysts, June, Orlando , Florida, 2004.

H. von Bremen and Udwadia F. E., Accurate Computation of Lyapunov Exponents for Low-DimensionalContinuous Systems, Proceedings of the 43rd SDM Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2002.

Udwadia F. E., Towards finding Exact Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, Proceedings of the 2nd

International Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos, St. Petersburg, Russia, June, 2000.

H. von Bremen and Udwadia F., Can time delays be beneficial in the Control of Mechanical Systems?,Proceedings of the 43rd SDM Conference, Atlanta, 2000.

Udwadia F. E. and Kalaba R., Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems: A new appproach, Proceedingsof the 43rd SDM Conference, Atlanta, 2000.

Udwadia F. E., Equations of Motion when d’Alembert’s Principle may Not be Valid, Proceedings of the 10thInternational Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Rio de Janeiro, October, 2000.

Udwadia F. E., H. Von Bremen and M. Wilson, Some Experimental and Analytical Results related to theTime-Delayed Control of Structural Systems, Proc. 12th Engineering Mechanics Conference, La Jolla,1998.

Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, Time delayed Control of Classically Damped and Nonclassically DampedStructural Systems, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Engg. Science, September,1998.

Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, Numerically Stable Computation of Lyapunov Exponents for Low-OrderContinuous Systems, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Engg. Science, September,1998.

Udwadia F. E., Explicit Equations of Motion and New Directions in the Control of Nonlinear Systems,Proceedings of the International Conference in honor of L. Pontryagin, August, 1998.

von Bremen H. and Udwadia F., On Computing the Largest p LCE’s of Discrete Dynamical Systems,Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Engg. Science, September, 1998.

Udwadia F. E. and H. von Bremen, Computation of Lyapunov Exponents, Proceedings of the 1st

International Conference on Control of Oscillations, St. Petersburg, August, 1997.

Udwadia F. E. and Kalaba R., Distributed Control of Structural Systems, Proceedings of the 9th Workshopon Dynamics and Control, Rio de Janeiro, August, 1996.

Udwadia F. E. and R. Kumar, Time-delayed Control of Structural Systems, Proceedings of the 11th WorldConference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, 1996.

Hosseini M. and Udwadia F. E., Robust Stabilization of Systems with Time Delays, Proc. of 7th Conferenceon Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, Worcester, MA, pp. 438-441, 1996.

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Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, Inequality Constraints in the Process of Jumping, Proceedings of the 8th

Dynamics and Control Workshop, Sopron, Hungary, 1995.

Udwadia F. Eun Hee-Chang, Numerical Studies in the control of Nonholonomic Systems, Proceedings of theEngineering Mechanics Conference, Boulder, Co., March, 1995.

Udwadia F. and Kalaba R., An alternative Proof of the Equations of Motion for Constrained MechanicalSystems, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Ulm, Gernmany, July, 1994.

Udwadia F. E. and Kumar R., Time delayed Control of Flexible Structural Systems, Proceedings of the FirstWorld Conference on Structural Control, Los Angeles, August, 1994.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, New Approaches to the Control of Mechanical Systems, in Proceedings ofthe 8th Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Los Angeles, 1993.

Udwadia F. E., A New Perspective on Constrained Motion, Proceedings of the Cornelius Lanczos,International Conference, Rayliegh, December, 1993.

Udwadia F. E., Adaptive Learning Technicques for Identification of Mechanical Systems, Proceedings of theEngineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, ASCE, College Station, May, 1992.

Udwadia F. E., Intelligent Control of Tall Building Structures Subjected to Strong Earthquake GroundShaking, Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain, July 14-19, 1992.

Udwadia F. E., Motion Control, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Control Mechanics, Los Angeles,January, 1992.

Udwadia F. E. and R. E. Kalaba, A New Perspective on Constrained Motion, Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of London, Series A, 439, November, pp. 407-410, 1992.

Udwadia F. E., New Approaches to Active Control of Structural and Mechanical Systems, Proceedings ofCONCOM III, Vancouver, October, 1991.

Udwadia F. E., New Methods in the Intelligent Control of Large-Scale Structural Systems, Proceedings ofthe First International Conference on Intelligent Structures, July 1990.

Udwadia F. E., New Parallel Algorithms for the Response Determination of Nonclassically Damped Systems,Proceedings of the Conference on Structural Dynamics, Taipei, July, 1990.

Udwadia F. E., Nonclassically Damped Systems, Proceedings of the ASME Conference, Chicago, 1990

Udwadia F. E., Noncollocated Control of Continuous Systems, Proceedings of the XV SoutheasternConference on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990.

Udwadia F. E., Control and Identification of Building Structures Subjected to Strong Earthquake GroundShaking, Proceedings of the 7th Structures Congress, May 1-5,1989.

Udwadia F. E. and H. Flashner, Tradeoffs between Identification and Control in Dynamic Systems, Proceed-ings of the American Control Conference, 1989.

Udwadia F. E., Optimal Sensor Locations in System identification, Proceedings of the Joint ASCE/ASMEMechanics Conferemce, La Jolla, July, 1989.

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Udwadia F. E., Multiple Perspective Approaches to Ill-Structured Problems, Proceedings of theInternational Symposium on Forcasting, Vacouver, June, 1989.

Udwadia F. E., Tradeoffs between Identification and Control of Large Space Structures, Proceedings of theJoint NASA/DOD Conference on Model Determination for Large Space Structures, California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, March 22-24, 1988.

Udwadia, F. E., Control and Identification of Large Structures, Proceedings of the 9th World Conference onEarthquake Engineering, Tokyo-Kyoto, Japan, August 2-9, 1988.

Udwadia F. E., Methodologies for Optimal Sensor Locations for Identification of Large Space Structures,Proceedings of the NASA/DOD Conference on Control-Structure Interactions, Denver, 1987.

On the Optimal Design of Structures Subjected to Base Excitation, Proceedings of the 26th Control andDecision Conference, Los Angeles, December, 1987.

Udwadia F. E., Risk Analysis in Seismic Zones, Proceedings of the Second Indo-US Workshop onEarthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1986.

Udwadia F. E., Uniqueness of Structural Identification in Tall Buildings, Proceedings of the Second Indo-US Workshop on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1986.

Udwadia F. E. and J. Garba, Optimal Sensor Location for Dynamic Systems, Proceedings of the Conferenceon Control and Identification of Large Space Structures, pp. 247-261, 1984.

Udwadia F. E., Parametric Identification Methods in Structural and Geotechnical Systems, Proceedings ofthe ASCE Specialty Conference on Engineering Mechanics, 1983.

Udwadia F. E., Identification of Continuous Systems Modeled by Partial Differential Equations, Proceedingsof the 6th IFAC Conference on Identification and Parameter Estimation, 1982.

Udwadia F. E. and C. P. Kuo, A Non-Parametric Method for the Identification of a Class of Close-CoupledMechanical Systems, Proceedings of the Joint AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS 22nd Structures, StructuralDynamics and Materials Conference, 81-0527-CP, pp. 166-171, 1981.

Udwadia F. E., J. Garba and S. Tabaie, On Line Pulse Control of Structural and Mechanical Systems,Proceedings of the Joint AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS 22nd Structures, Structural Dynamics and MaterialsConference, 81-0636-CP, pp. 591-601, 1981.

Dravinski M. and F. E. Udwadia, Scattering of Horizontally Polarized Shear Waves from a PeriodicBoundary, Proceedings of the 15th IUTAM Conference, Canada, 1980.

Udwadia F. E., Some thoughts on the Optimal Location of Sensors in Structures to Record Strong GroundShaking, Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Interpretation of Strong Motion Data, 1980.

Masri S. F., G. Bekey and F. E. Udwadia, On-Line Pulse Control of Tall Buildings, Proceedings of theIUTAM Conference on Structural Control, 1979.

Udwadia F. E. and P. C. Shah, Sensor Location Problems in Dynamic Systems, Proceedings of the VICanadian Conference on Applied Mechanics, 1977.

Udwadia F. E. and N. Jerath, Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Time Variations of StructuralProperties During Strong Ground Shaking, Proceedings of the VI World Conference on EarthquakeEngineering, New Delhi, 1977.

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Udwadia F. E. and V. Lee, Nonlinear Soil Identification, Proceedings of the VI World Conference onEarthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1977.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Problems in the Construction of Microzonation Maps, Proceedings of theVI World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1977.

Udwadia F. E., Optimal Sensor Location in Building Identification from Strong Motion Records,Proceedings of the VI World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1977.

Udwadia F. E., Global and Local Uniqueness in Building Identification, Proceedings of the VI WorldConference on Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi, 1977.

Udwadia F. E. and S. F. Masri, Some Identification Problems in Structural Systems, Proceedings of the IVIFAC Conference on Identification and System Parameter Estimation, Tblisi, USSR, 1976.

Bing F. J., W. Corcoran, R. Gupta, R. Sarma, F. E. Udwadia and A. Yoganathan, Frequency Analysis of theSecond Heart Sound in Normal Man Via the Fast Fourier Transform, Proceedings of the 28th ACEMBConference, Louisiana, 1975.

Udwadia F. E., On Some Unicity Problems in Identification from Strong Motion Records, Proceedings of theFifth European Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 1975.

Udwadia F. E., Identification Concepts in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the Symposium on Testing andIdentification of Nonlinear Systems, California Institute of Technology, 1975.

Udwadia F. E., Full-Scale Three Dimensional Test of Structural Deformations During Forced Excitation of aNine-Story Reinforced Concrete Building, Proceedings of the U.S. National Conference on EarthquakeEngineering, 1975.

Udwadia F. E., J. E. Luco, and M. D. Trifunac, An Experimental Study of Ground Deformations Caused bySoil-Structure Interaction, Proceedings of the U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1975.

Udwadia F. E. and M. D. Trifunac, Ambient Vibration Tests of Full-Scale Structures, Proceedings of theFifth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1973.

Brady A. G., M. D. Trifunac and F. E. Udwadia, Recent Developments in Data Processing and AccuracyEvaluations of Strong-Motion Acceleration Measurements, Proceedings of the Fifth World Conference onEarthquake Engineering, Rome, Italy, 1973.

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Some Selected Conference Presentations and Seminars (1987 — present):

Key Note Address, Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Controls, 8th World Congress onMathematical Methods in Engineering, Aerospace and the Science, Brazil, 2010.

Distnguished Lecturer, Three Seminars on "Computation, Control, and Dynamics,"Soochow University, Taiwan, August 29-September 5, 2010.

Invited Lecture, Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and NonlinearControl, NSF Workshop on Dynamics and Control: Horizons in Infinite-Dimensional Deterministic and Stochastic Systems, UCLA, January 30-31, 2009.

Key Note Address, Advances in Dynamics and Control of Nonlinear Systems, AmericanAcademy of Mechanics Conference, New Orleans, June 17-20, 2008.

Key Note Address, Optimal Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems, ICNPAA-2008,Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, Genoa, Italy, June 25-27,2008.

Key Note Address, Duality Between Constrained Motion and Nonlinear Control, FirstInternational Academy of Mechanics Conference, New Orleans, June 17-20, 2008.

Plenary Talk, Synchronization of Chaotic Gyroscopes, International Congress on NonlinearDynamical Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 4-10, 2007.

Plenary Talk: Explicit Poincare Equations of Motion for General Constrained Systems andtheir Application to Multi-body Control, 9th Chataev Conference on Dynamics, Stability andControl, Irkutsk, Russia, June 12-16, 2007.

Invited Lecture, Duality between Tracking Control and Constrained Motion of MechanicalSystems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Variational Methods andAerospace Engineering, Erice, Italy, September, 2007.

Distinguished Lecturer, Five Seminars on Analytical Dynamics and Control, Institute forAdvanced Studies, Government of India, Vizagapatnam, GVP College, India, March 29-April 3, 2007.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Multi-body Elastic Spacecraft Systems, 14thInternational Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Moscow, Russia, May 28-June 2, 2007.

Formation Flight of Multiple Rigid Body Spacecraft, 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASCStructures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 23–26, Honolulu, Hawaii,2007.

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Sturm, C.A., M.S. Waters, R.S. Arvidson, S.D. Goodman, K.H. Nealson, A. Lüttge, andF.E. Udwadia. 2007. Bugs in stress: microbial control of surface reactivity in a stress field.,2007 Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, August 19-24, 2007.

Waters, M.S., C. A. Sturm, A. Luttge, F. E. Udwadia, D. G. Cvitkovitch, S. D. Goodman, K.H. Nealson. 2007. Analysis of Bacteria Using Vertical Scanning Interferometry, 4thAmerican Society of Microbiology Biofilm Conference, Quebec, Canada, March 25-29,2007.

Waters, M.S., C. A. Sturm, A. Luttge, F. E. Udwadia, D. G. Cvitkovitch, S. D. Goodman, K.H. Nealson. 2007. Advanced Techniques in Microbial Imaging using Vertical ScanningInterferometry, Gordon Research Conference on Applied Environmental Microbiology, July15-20, South Hadley, MA, 2007.

Poincare Equations of Constrained Motion, International Conference on VariationalMethods and Aerospace Engineering, Erice, Italy, 8-16, September, 2007.

The Duality Between Constrained Motion and Tracking Control of Mechanical Systems,USC, Department of Mathematics, Nov. 3, 2006.

Key Note Address, The Geometry of Constrained Motion, 6th Intl. Conf. on Math. Problemsin Engineering and Aerospace Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, June 21-23, 2006.

General and Explicit Equations of Motion for Constrained Mechanical Systems, StructuralDynamics and Materials Conference, 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures,Austin, Texas, April 4, 2005.

Recent Advances in Analytical Dynamics and Nonlinear Control, ETH, Zurich, June 2,2005.

Equations of Motion for Constrained Systems with Singular Mass Matrices, InternationalWorkshop on Dynamics and Control, Wiesenstieg, Germany, May 22-26, 2005.

A Unified Methodology for Robotic Control, IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robotsand Systems, Edmonton, Canada, August 5, 2005.

Key Note Address, Recent Advances in Multi-body Dynamics and Nonlinear Control, XIInternational Conference on Dynamics and Control, Ouro Preto, Brazil, Feb. 28- March 4,2005.

A Novel Methodology for Deriving Robot Controllers, ASME Design EngineeringConference, Long Beach, September 26, 2005.

Time Delayed Negative Velocity Feedback Design for Active Control of Structures, ASMEDesign Engineering Conference, Long Beach, September 26, 2005.

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On Motion, University of Illinois at Urbana, November 4, 2004.

Key Note Address, New Method of Tracking Control for Nonlinear Systems, ICTAM, XXIInternational Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August15-24, 2004.

Is Analytical Dynamics an Experimental or a Theoretical Science?, Sixth World Congresson Computational Mechanics, September 5-10, 2004.

On the Foundations of Analytical Dynamics, Physics Seminar, USC, Los Angeles, Oct. 7,2002.

Approach for Computation of Lyapunov Characteristic Exponents of Low DimensionalContinuous Dynamical Systems, 43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, StructuralDynamics, and Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, Apr. 22-25, 2002

Global patterns from Local Interaction: A Dynamical Systems Approach, 12th InternationalWorkshop on Aeroelasticity, UCLA, Los Angeles, Sept. 3-6, 2002

Keynote Address, Constratined Motion in Dynamical Systems 4th Intl. Conference onNonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace Engineering, Melbourne, Florida, 2002.

Nonideal constraints and the General Equations of Motion for Mechanical Systems, 12 th

International Workshop on Dynamics and Contro, Los Angeles, August 19-21, 2001.

Time-Delayed Control of Mechanical Systems, SDM Conference, Atlanta, April 4-6, 2001.

Equations of motion when D’Alembert’s Principle is not Valid, Workshop on Dynamics andControl, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 9-11, 2000.

Invited Keynote Speaker, Exact Control of Nonlinear Mechanical and Structural Systems,Plenary Lecture, 2nd Intl Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos, St. Petersburg,Russia, June 9-11, 2000.

Can Time-Delays be Beneficial in Control of Mechanical Systems?, SDM Conference,Atlanta, April 4-6, 2000.

Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems: A new approach, SDM Conference, Atlanta,April 4-6, 2000.

Invited Keynote Speaker, Explicit Equations of Motion and New Directions in the Controlof Nonlinear Systems, International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications inhonor of L. Pontryagin, Sectional Plenary Lecture, Moscow, Russia, August 31-Sept 6,1998.

Control of Nonlinear Mechanical and Sytuctural Systems, Workshop on Dynamics andControl, Lambrecht, Germany, August 16-18, 1998.

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Numerically Stable Computation of Lyapunov Exponents for Continuous DynamicalSystems, 35th Annual Meeting of the Soc. of Engg. Science, Sept 27-30, 1998.

Time Delayed Control of Classically Damped and Nonclassically Damped StructuralSystems, 35th Annual Meetimg of the Soc. of Engg. Science, Sept 27-30, 1998.

On Computing the Largest p LCE’s of Discrete Dynamical Systems, 35th Annual Meetimgof the Soc. of Engg. Science, Sept 27-30, 1998.

Experimental and Theoretical Results on Time-Delayed Control of Systems, 12thEngineering Mechanics Conference, May 17-20, 1998.

Computation of Lyapunov Numbers, (invited) 1st International Conference on Control ofOscillations and Chaos, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 27-29, 1997.

New on-orbit methods for Rapid Identification of Structural Systems, Jet PropulsionLaboratory, April 25, 1997

Distributed Control of Structural Systems, 9th Workshop on Dynamics and Control,University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1-14, 1996

Dynamics of Nonlinear Structural and Mechanical Systems, Distinguished Lecture Series,Georgia Tech, April 18, 1996.

A Unified Approach to the Equations of Motion for Structural and Mechanical Systems, 8thWorkshop on Dynamics and Control, Sopron, Hungary, 1995.

Coupled Nonlinear Maps: Quasisymmetry, and Periodicity, 8th Workshop on Dynamics andControl, Sopron, Hungary, 1995.

Inequality Constraints in the Process of Jumping, 8th Workshop on Dynamics and Control,Sopron, Hungary, 1995.

Time Delayed Control of Building Structures, NSF Workshop on Dynamics and Control,August 7-12, 1995.

Numerical Studies in the Control of Nonholonomic Systems, Engineering MechanicsConference, Boulder, Colorado, March, 1995.

Dynamics of Non-holonomic Systems, 12th Applied Mechanics Congress, June 27- July 1,1994.

An Alternative Proof for the Equations of Motion for Mechanical Systems, 7th Workshopon Dynamics and Control, Ulm, Germany, July, 1994.

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Time-Delayed Control of Flexible Structural Systems, First World Conference onStructural Control, Los Angeles, August 4-8, 1994.

Dynamics and Control of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems, Caltech, AppliedMechanics and Civil Engineering Seminar, November 18, 1993.

A New Perspective on Constrained Motion, The Cornelius Lanczos InternationalConference, Rayleigh, December 12-17, 1993.

New Methods of Motion Control for Mechanical Systems, 6th Workshop on Dynamics andControl, Technical University of Vienna, July 6-9, 1993.

Geometry of Constrained Motion, Caltech Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Caltech, April26, 1993.

Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, MANE Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, April 15,1993.

On Motion, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,November 5, 1992.

Distributed Control of Large Scale Structural Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AppliedMechanics Division, August 12, 1992 (invited).

Intelligent Control of Large Scale Structures Subjected to Strong Ground Shaking, 10thWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Spain, Madrid, July 14-19, 1992

Adaptive Learning Techniques for the Identification of Mechanical Systems, EngineeringMechanics Specialty Conference, ASCE, College Station, Texas, May 25-27, 1992.

Motion Control, 5th International Workshop on Control Mechanics, Los Angeles, January27-29, 1992.

New Approaches to the Active Control of Structural and Mechanical Systems, Conferenceon Advances in Control and Communications, ConCom III, Vancouver, October 16-19,1991.

Time-Delayed Control of Continuous Systems, Engineering Mechanics SpecialtyConference, ASCE, Columbus, Ohio, May 20-22, 1991.

New Paradigms for Systems Science and Engineering, Catalina II, Catalina, California,March 21-24, 1991.

Time Delayed Control of Continuous Systems, MANE Seminar, UCLA, 1990.

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Recent Advances in the Identification and Control of Structural and Mechanical Systems,Plenary Presentation, First International Conference on Mathematical Theory of Control,Bombay, India, Dec. 18-21, 1990 (invited).

New Parallel Algorithms for the Response Determination of Nonclassically DampedSystems, Conference on Structural Dynamics, July, 27-29, Republic of China, Taipei, 1990(invited).

Intelligent Control of Large-Scale Systems, First International Conference on IntelligentStructures, Taipei, July 23-26, 1990.

Structural System Identification using Neural Nets, Aerospace Corporation, May 18, 1990(invited).

Non-collocated Control of Dynamic Systems, Joint NASA/DOD Conference on Modelingand Identification of Large Space Structures, Caltech, Pasadena, March 27-29, 1990.

Control of Continuous Systems, XVth Southeastern Conference on Applied and TheoreticalMechanics, Georgia Tech, March 22-25, 1990.

Nonclassically Damped Systems, Winter Annual Meeting, ASME, 1990.

Optimal Sensor Locations in System Identification, Joint ASCE/ASME Mechanics,Conference, La Jolla, July 9-12, 1989.

Tradeoffs for Dynamic Systems between Control and Identification, American ControlConference, June 21-23, Pittsburgh, 1989.

New Methods for Optimal Sensor Locations in Large Structures for System Identification,Carnegie Mellon University, February 18, 1989.

Panelist for Panel Discussion on "The Future of Forecasting," International Symposium onForecasting, Vancouver, B.C., June 18-21, 1989 (invited).

Multiple Perspective Approaches to Ill-Structured Problems, International Symposium onForecasting, Vancouver, B.C., June 18-21, 1989.

Control of Building Structures Subjected to Strong Earthquake Ground Shaking, 7thStructures Congress, San Francisco, April 2-5, 1989.

Control and Identification of Large Structures, IX World Conference in EarthquakeEngineering, Tokyo-Kyoto, August, 1988.

Tradeoffs between Identification and Control of Large Space Structures, Joint NASA/DODConference on Model Determination on Large Space Structures, California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, March, 1988.

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Nonclassically Damped Dynamic Systems, SIAM/SIGNUM Lecture, Los Angeles,November 17, 1988 (invited).

Sensor Locations for Identification of Structural Systems, Second NASA/DOD Conferenceon Control Structure Interaction, November, 1987.

On the Optimal Design of Structures Subjected to Base Excitation, 26th Control andDecision Conference, Los Angeles, December, 1987.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES Undergraduate Courses:

Advanced Strength of Materials (Senior Level)Statics (Sophomore Level)Dynamics (Sophomore Level)Strength of Materials (Sophomore Level)Computational Methods in Engineering (Senior Level)Linear Control Systems (Senior Level)Structural Dynamics (Junior level)Probability Theory and Risk Analysis (Senior Level)

Graduate Courses:

Earthquake Engineering I and IIStructural Dynamics and Vibrations I and IIRandom VibrationsEngineering Mathematics I and IINonlinear Dynamical Systems and ChaosAdvanced Analytical DynamicsNonlinear ControlVariational Methods in Physics and EngineeringMulti-body DynamicsGraduate Seminar on Inverse Problems

Director: Graduate Option in Dynamics and Control (1990-present)Co-Director: Center for Crisis Management (1986-1989)Director: Building Science Program (1977-1980)Director: System Identification Computing Facility (1977-1990)

PROFESSIONAL American Institute of Aero and AstronauticsSOCIETY American Mathematical SocietyMEMBERSHIPS American Society of Civil Engineering

American Society of Mechanical EngineeringInternational Federation of Nonlinear AnalystsSigma Xi

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Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

CURRENT Applied Mathematics and ComputationJOURNAL Applied Mechanics ReviewsREVIEWING Journal of Aerospace EngineeringACTIVITIES Journal of Applied Mechanics

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear DynamicsJournal of Differential Equations and Dynamical SystemsJournal of Dynamics, Measurement and ControlJournal of Engineering MechanicsJournal of the Franklin InstituteJournal of Guidance, Control and DynamicsJournal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsJournal of Optimization Theory and ApplicationsJournal of Sound and VibrationInternational Journal of Computational MechanicsInternational Journal of Nonlinear MechanicsInternational Journal of Numerical Methods in EngineeringInternational Journal of Solids and StructuresMeccanicaNonlinear DynamicsPhysica DPhysical ReviewsPMMProceedings of the Royal Society of LondonQuarterly of Applied MathematicsSIAM Journal of Applied MathematicsSIAM Journal of Optimization and ControlEuropean Journal of Mechanics

CONSULTING Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1978 - 1993) (1994-1996) (2005-2012)EXPERIENCE

Air Force Astronautics Laboratory (1986 - 1990)

Aerospace Corporation (1993-1995)

Romaga AG, Zurich (1987 - 89)

Argonne National Laboratory (1981 - 1983)

Avery International Research Center (1976 - 1979)

National Regulatory Commission (1977-1979)

West Coast Research (1977 - 1980)