RESEARCH TOPICS

• Automatic DSP Code Generation Tools
• Computer-Aided Control Design
• Fluid Model-Based Controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows
• Robust Control Design
• System Biology

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Steve Merrill           
A Dynamics Model and Analysis of Radioactive  Therapy for Graves' Disease

RECENT GRADUATES and VISITORS

• Paul van Dongen Internet Congestion Control
• Varodom Toochinda Active noise control
• Armin Huseinovic AQM Routers supporting TCP flows
• David M. Cushing Rapid Prototyping of DSP-Based Control Systems
• Nicole Veilleux Multi-level AQM Routers
• Orhan Beker Reset control theory and application
• Thomas Klawitter - Active noise control
• Qian Chen - Reset control theory and applications
• Li Lijun - Active noise control
• Daniel G. Benshabat - application of QFT design to robust control of missiles
• Benoit Berthomme - nondiagonal MIMO QFT design
• Craig Borghesani - the QFT Toolbox
• Anil Chinniah - QFT design with time-domain specifications
• Jehwon Lee - Multivariable control (visiting professor)
• Prashant Mehta - active noise control
• Nicolas Reffe - microprocessor controllered dry powder dispersing instrument
• Julie M. Rodrigues - efficient algorithms for QFT design
• Myoung Soo Park - multivariable QFT
• Chidambaram Vaidyanathan - robust control of flexible arms
• Yuan Zheng- reset control theory and active noise control

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Follow a link to a paper to get an abstract and a link to the postscript or .pdf file (in an almost final form).

• Throughput Differentiation Using Coloring at the Network Edge and Preferential Marking at the Core (Y. Chait, C.V. Hollot, V. Misra, D. Towsley, H. Zhang and Y. Cui)
• A Quantitative Model of the Human Thyroid: Development and Observations (M. Degon , Y. Chait , C.V. Hollot , S. Chipkin and T. Zoeller)
• Stability Analysis of a DiffServ Network Having Two-Level Coloring at the Network Edge and Preferential Dropping at the Core (Cui, Chait and Hollot)
• Fixed Point of a TCP/RENO DiffServ Network with a Single Congested Link (Chait and Hollot)
• Nonlinear Stability Analysis for a Class of TCP/AQM Networks (Hollot and Chait)
• Dynamic Analysis of Congested TCP Networks," Proceedings of the American Control Conference (Chait, Hollot, Misra, Han and Halevi)
• The Dynamic of pricing in TCP/AQM Networks (Hollot and Chait)
• Fundamental Properties of Reset Control Systems (Beker, Hollot and Chait)
• Disturbance Attenuation in a SITO Feedback System (Toochinda, Hollot and Chait)
• Tech Report: Throughput Guarantees for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two Color Marking and Multi-Level AQM (Chait)
• Providing Throughput Differentiation for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two-Color Marking and Two-Level AQM (Chait, Hollot, Misra, Towsley, Zhang and Lui)
• Plant with Integrator: An Example of Reset Control Overcoming Limitations of Linear Feedback (Hollot, Beker and Chait)
• On Selecting Sensor and Actuator Locations for ANC in Ducts (Toochinda, Hollot and Chait)
• A Single-Input Two-Output Feedback Formulation for ANC Problems (Toochinda, Klawitter, Hollot and Chait)
• An Adaptive Control Strategy for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows (Yossi Chait, Salomon Oldak, C.V. Hollot and Vishal Misra)
• Fixed and Adaptive Model-Based Controllers for Active Queue Management (Yossi Chait, C.V. Hollot, Vishal Misra, Salomon Oldak, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong)
• On Establishing Classic Performance Measures for Reset Control Systems (C.V. Hollot, Orhan Beker, Yossi Chait, and Qian Chen)
• On QFT Tuning of Multivariable MU Controllers (J.W. Lee , Yossi Chait , Maarten Steinbuch)
• Analysis of Reset Control Systems Consisting of a FORE and Second-Order Loop (Chen, Chait and Hollot)
• Stability and Asymptotic Performance Analysis of a Class of Reset Control Systems (Chen, Hollot and Chait)
• BIBO Stability of A Class of Reset Control Systems (Chen, Hollot and Chait)
• On the Convexity of QFT Bounds and its Relations to Automatic Loop-Shaping (Chen, Chait and Hollot)
• Stability of A Reset Control System Under Constant Inputs (Beker, Hollot, Chen and Chait)
• Stability of A MIMO Reset Control System Under Constant Inputs (Beker, Hollot and Chait)
• Automatic Loop-Shaping of QFT Controllers Via Linear Programming (Chait, Chen and Hollot)
• Experimental Demonstration of Reset Control Design (Zheng, Chait, Hollot, Steinbuch and Norg)
• Automatic Loop-Shaping of QFT Controllers via Linear Programming (Chait)
• On the Zero-Input Stability of Control Systems Having Clegg Integrators (Hu, Zheng Hollot and Chait)
• A "New" Approach to Active Noise Control in Ducts (Mehta, Zheng, Chait, and Hollot)
• Active Noise Control Ducts: Feedforward/Feedback Design by Blending Hinfinity and QFT Methods (Mehta, Zheng, Hollot and Chait)
• The QFT Control Design Toolbox for MATLAB (Borghesani, Chait and Yaniv)
• An Efficient Algorithm for Computing QFT Bounds (Rodrigues, Chait and Hollot)
• Inversion-free Design Algorithms for Multivariable Quantitative Feedback Theory: An Application to Robust Control of A CD-ROM (Park, Chait and Steinbuch).
• Robust Control Design of A High Performance Flexible Electro-mechanical System (Chait and Steinbuch)

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QFT LINKS
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QFT Frequency Domain Control Design Toolbox by Craig Borghesani, Yossi Chait and Oded Yaniv
Quantitative Feedback Design Theory (QFT) Vol. 1 by Isaac M. Horowitz
Quantitative Feedback Design of Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems by Oded Yaniv
Quantitative Feedback Theory by Constantine H. Houpis and Steven J. Rasmussen
DESIGN OF ROBUST CONTROL SYSTEMS: From Classical to Modern Practical Approaches by Marcel Sidi

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