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Dr. Rama K. Yedavalli

 

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RESEARCH RELATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

 

-         Chaired technical session on `Control Systems III` at the International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems

-         (ACOD'07), Feb 2007, Bangalore, India

-         Organized and chaired a technical session on 'Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control' at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) of ASME in Chicago, IL, Nov 2006

-         Co-chaired technical session on 'Robust Analysis I' at the 2006 IFAC conference on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'06), Toulouse, France, July 2006

-         Co-chaired technical session on 'Linear System Stability I' at the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2006

-         Organized and chaired a technical session on 'Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control' at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) of ASME in Orlando, FL, Nov 2005

-         Co-chaired a technical session in the 2005 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control conference, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2005

-         Co-chaired technical session on 'Stability of Linear Systems' at the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004

-         Chaired technical session on 'Robust Stability' at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June 2003

-         Co-chaired technical session on 'Descriptor Systems II' at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June 2003

-         Chaired technical session on 'Stability of Dynamic Systems' at the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, AL, May 2002

-         Chaired technical session on 'Switched systems II' at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2001

-         Chaired technical session on 'Robust stability' at the 2001 American Control Conference, June 2001

-         Chaired technical session on 'Robustness' at the 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000

-         Co-chaired technical session on 'Robustness Analysis' at the 1999 American Control Conference, June 1999

-         Served as one of the two 'Guest Editors' for an issue of the Journal 'Mathematical Problems in Engineering' commemorating the 60th Birthday celebrations of Prof. Robert E. Skelton

-         Co-chaired technical session on "Stability I" at the 1998 American Control Conference, June 1998

-         Active participant in organizing symposium honoring Prof. Robert E. Skelton of the University of California, San Diego as part of his 60th Birthday celebration.

-         Chairman of session on "Robust Design I" at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, Dec 1997

-         Chairman of session on "Control Theory IV" in the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 1997

-         Chairman of session on "Aircraft Control" at IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Detroit MI, September 1996

-         Chairman of session on "Stabilization" in the 13th IF AC World Congress, San Francisco, CA, June-July 1996

-         Chairman of session on "Stability" at the 1995 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 1995

-         Invited participant in the NSF-Sponsored International Workshop on "Future Directions in Robustness Research" organized by Prof. B. R. Barmish of University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, November 17-19, 1995.

-         Chairman of session on "Control Theory II" at the 1995 AlAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Baltimore, MA, August 1995

-         Co-Chairman of session on "H-Infinity and Robust Control" at the 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, W A, June 1995

-         Chairman of session on "Robust Control III" at the 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, W A, June 1995

-         Chairman of session on "Control Methods for Active Systems II" at the 1995

-         North American Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, February 1995

-         Chairman of session on "Flight Controls" at the First Industry/Academy Symposium on Research for Future Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles, Greensboro, NC, December 1994

-         Co-Chairman of session on "Linear Control System Design" at the 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Lake Buena Vista, FL, December 1994

-         Vice Chairman of symposium on " Active Control of Vibrations and Noise: Adaptive Materials, Actuators and Sensors", ASME International Congress and Exposition of the Winter Annual Meeting of ASME, Chicago, IL, November 1994

-         Chairman of session on "Numerical Methods" at the 1994 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 1994

-         Chairman of session on "Robust Control for Distributed Systems." 1993 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 1993

-         Served as AIAA Society Review Chairman for the 1993 American Control Conference

-         Served as Program Committee Member for the 1992 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) Dayton, OH, September 1992

-         Served as Program Committee Member for the 1992 American Control Conference held in Chicago, IL, June 1992

-         Served, by invitation, as an NSF Panel Reviewer for Selection of Research Initiation Grants and other grants administered by NSF

-         Organized and taught a tutorial workshop on "Robust Control for State Space Systems" at the 1992 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; (along with Prof. George Leitmann of University of California, Berkeley), Tucson, AZ, December 15, 1992

-         Served as member of the team of instructors for the AIAA Professional Short Course on "Robust Multivariable Control: Theory and Applications", Hilton Head Island, SC, August 13-14, 1992

-         Organized workshop on "Robust Control" sponsored by Ohio Aerospace Institute, October 18, 1991

-         Served as Technical Program Committee Chairman for the 1991 AIAA Guidance and Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 1991

-         Organizer and Chairman for an invited session on "Robust Stability Analysis for Uncertain Polynomials and Matrices", 1989 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, FL, December 1989

-         Chairman for a session on "Robust Control in State Space", at the 1988 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, December 1988

-         Chairman for a session on "Control Analysis and Design" at the 1988 AIM Guidance and Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, August 1988

-         Co-chairman for a session on "Stability of Linear Systems" at the 1988 IEEE American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 1988

-         Co-chairman for a contributed session in the 1987 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, December 1987

-         Organizer and Chairman for an Invited Session on "Robust Control via Lyapunov Methods" in the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN June 1987

-         Invited participant in the NSF Engineering Foundation Workshop on "Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics", Henniker, NH, June 1986

-         Invited participant in the NASA Lewis JIAPP Workshop, November 1985

-         Organizer and Chairman for an Invited Session on "Robustness Considerations in Time Domain" in the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 1985

-         Invited participant in the forum on "Large Space Structures" arranged by U.S. AFOSR, Washington, DC, July 1984

 

Other Professional Services

-         Served, on Invitation, as a Member of the External Review Board (EAB) of NASA-CAR (NASA Center for Aerospace Research) at North Carolina A&T State University (invited in Oct'98)

-         Continuing to serve as a Member of the PCC (Program Coordinating Committee) representing the Ohio State University for the Controls and Robotics Focus Group of the Wright State University PhD program in Engineering

-         Published a Book Review on "System Dynamics: An Introduction" by Derek Rowell and David N. Wormley for Prentice Hall in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vo150, June'97

-         Published a Book Review on "Aircraft Performance" written by Prof Vinh for the ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering., 1996

-         Supplied evaluation letters for many professional colleagues towards the advancement of their professional careers

-         Serving as a technical Associate Editor for the International Journal of Systems Science since 1992

-         Organized a workshop on "Trends and Applications in Robust Control" for the Ohio Aerospace Institute, in Oct 1991

-         Selected by Invitation to be a member of the Conference Editorial Board for IEEE. Continues to serve as a member of CEB

-         Served as a Judge for evaluating Science Projects for the Ohio Academy of Science

-         Served as an External Evaluator (which included an Honorarium) for the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (for a Ph.D thesis evaluation) and Hamilton Institute, Ireland (for a Research Proposal)