Department of
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Petros G. Voulgaris Visiting ADGAS Chaired Professor   Office: Umm Shaif, Room 4015 Phone: 971 2 6075273 Fax: +971 2 607 5200 Email: pvoulgaris@pi.ac.ae

• Ph.D.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991

Since 1991 Dr. Voulgaris has been with the faculty at the Univercity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where  he is a professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering and in the Coordinated Laboratory.  He is known for fundamental contributions in the areas of robust and multi-objective control and estimation, and distributed control.  He has published over 100 refereed publications in journals and conference proceedings  and has been funded for numerous research projects from government and industry.

Honors and awards:

UIUC Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 1996
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1995
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993

Service:

Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1997-1999
Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control,
1998-2001

Expertise:

• Hierarchical, Distributed and Multi-agent Control
•  Robust and Multi-objective Control and Estimation
• Applications of Control and Estimation Theory to Communication Systems
• Analysis and Synthesis of Time Varying and Adaptive Systems
• Applications of Advanced Control Methods to Engineering Systems

Representative Publications:

• P.G. Voulgaris, M.A. Dahleh and L.S. Valavani, “H∞ and H2 optimal controllers for periodic and multirate systems,” Automatica, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 1994, pp. 252-263.
• P.G. Voulgaris, “Optimal H2 / l1  control via duality theory,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-40, No. 11, pp. 1881-1888, November 1995.
• M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh and P.G. Voulgaris, “MIMO optimal control design:  The interplay between the H2 and the l1 norms,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 43, no. 10, pp. 1374-1388, October 1998.
• Z. Chen and P.G. Voulgaris, “Decentralized design for integrated flight/propulsion control of aircraft,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol 23, No 6, November-December 2000.
• J.W. Melody, T. Basar, W.R. Perkins and P. G. Voulgaris, Parameter identification for inflight detection of aircraft icing,” Control Engineering Practice, 8 (2000), 985-1001.
• X. Qi, M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Khammash, “Structured optimal control with multiple objectives: A convex solution,” IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 49: 10 , 1623 – 1640, Oct. 2004.
• B. Bamieh and P.G. Voulgaris, “A convex characterization of distributed control problems in spatially invariant systems with communication constraints,” Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 54: 575-583, June 2005.
• S. Jiang and P.G. Voulgaris, “Design of distributed controllers with constrained and noisy links,”   International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 16:891-912, December 2006.
• S. Jiang, P.G.~Voulgaris and N. Neogi, “Failure-robust distributed controller architectures,” in press,  International Journal of Control, Vol. 80, No. 9, September 2007, 1367–1378.
• P.G. Voulgaris, C. Hadjicostis and R. Touri,  “A robust control approach for perfect reconstruction of digital signals,” IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing, Volume 55,  Issue 9,  Sept. 2007 Page(s):4444 – 4457.
• V. Sharma, M. Savchenko, E. Frazzoli and P. G. Voulgaris, “Time complexity of sensor-based vehicle routing,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 26(3):255--272, March 2007.