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Cluster Treatment of Characteristic Equations

 

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Rifat Sipahi, PhD

Rifat

Photo: Courtesy of Mary Knox Merrill/Northeastern University

 

Office: 321 Snell Engineering Center.

Phone: (617) 373 6011.

Email: rifat AT coe DOT neu DOT edu

Professional Services:

  • ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division
    • Newsletter Associate Editor 2006-2008
    • Newsletter Editor 2008-2011
    • DSC Magazine News Editor 2013 - current
    • Vice-chair (2011-2014) and chair (2014 - current) of Technical Committee on Vibration Control of Smart Structures
  • Review service since 2002 multiple times for 14 different conferences and over 40 different journals
  • co-creator with Prof. Niculescu the e-delay systems email list. Click here to subscribe. Currently we have about 1,500 members on the list
  • co-edited three volumes with Springer (see News below) each with about 400 pages
  • co-organized and the Editor/Program Chair of 2012 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems
  • Associate Editor roles for ACC (2010, 2012-2015), ASME DSCC (2011-2015), ECC (2014-2016), IFAC TDS (2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016), ASME IDETC (2009, 2011, 2015)
  • co-organized three educational Workshops on Time Delay Systems at major controls conferences (see below)
  • Program Committee Member, ACC 2010, ASME DSCC 2009, 2011 2015,, IEEE CCA MSC 2016
  • co-organized several invited sessions on time delay systems at major control conferences since 2006
  • chair/co-chair of sessions on time delay systems at major controls conferences under ASME, IEEE, IFAC.

 

WORKSHOP SERIES ON TIME DELAY SYSTEMS

  • 2013 European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2013 IEEE Conference On Decision And Control, Florence, Italy
  • 2014 European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France
  • 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Confernce, USA

Lecturers: Fatihcan M. Atay (GERMANY), Dimitri Breda (ITALY), Wim Michiels (BELGIUM), Silviu-Iulian Niculescu (FRANCE), Hitay Ozbay (TURKEY), Rifat Sipahi (USA)

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Active research & engineering education topics
  • Novel results in LTI systems with multiple delays, both in delay-dependent and delay-independent stability (since 2001)

  • Novel control design techniques to enhance effectiveness of man-machine systems (since 2010)

  • Engineering solutions in ways to suppress hand tremors in daily tasks (since 2010)

  • Mechatronics based portable Braille writing device (since 2009)

  • Development of new hands-on mechatronics curriculum covering energy systems, bioengineering, biomedical devices, and sustainability (since 2011)

  • Responsible Eigenvalue concepts in networked systems in presence of delays. Design of network topologies that can withstand larger delays without losing stability (since 2006)
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