Anuradha Annaswamy

Senior Research Scientist

Room 3-348
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-0860
Fax: 617-253-5981
Email: aanna@mit.edu
Web: http://aaclab.mit.edu/

Curriculum Vitae

Administrative Contact:
Lorraine Rabb
Room 3-343
Phone: 617-253-2210
Email: lrabb@mit.edu

Education
B.E. 1979 Indian Institute of Science; Ph.D. 1985 Yale University

Honors and Awards
The Alfred Hay Medal, Indian Institute of Science, 1979; IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1985-86; The George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (Best Paper IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1986-88); The Presidential Young InvestigatorAward, NSF, 1991-95; George N. Hatsopoulos Career Development Chair, 1992-93; D. Fort Flowers Jr. Career Development Chair, 1994-95; IEEE Fellow, 2002, IEEE Control Systems Magazine Best Paper Award (2010-11)

Positions Held
Assistant Professor, December 1991- June 1996 Associate Professor, July 1996 - June 1999 Principal Research Scientist July 1999 - June 2003 Senior Research Scientist July 2003 - Present

Research Interests
Active Combustion Control; Active-adaptive Flow Control; Adaptive Control Theory and Applications to Flight Control and Automotive Systems; Adaptive Emission Control in Automotive Systems; Adaptive Control of Cyber-Physical Systems; Adaptive Estimation in Distribution Systems and Weak Grids Control using Neural Networks; Control of Thermo-fluid Systems; Dynamic Instability; Codesign of Control and Embedded Systems; Modeling and Stability of Electricity Markets in Smart Grids.

Society Memberships
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers

Teaching Interests
Systems and Control; Adaptive Control

Recent Publications:

J. Choi, A.M. Annaswamy, and F.S. Alvi, “Active control of supersonic impingement tones using steady and pulsed microjets,” Experiments in Fluids, vol. 41, pp. 841-855, 2006.
C. Cao and A.M. Annaswamy, "A hierarchical discretized-parameter polynomial adaptive estimator for nonlinearly parameterized systems," International Journal of Control , Vol. 79, No. 8, pp. 831–844, August 2006.
D. Macumber, A.M. Annaswamy, D. Beal, and S. Huyer, “Noise Control Due to the Stator Wake Blade Interaction via Tail Articulation,” IEEE J. Ocean Engineering, vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 551-564, July 2007.
J. Cheong, S-I. Niculescu, A.M. Annaswamy, and M.A. Srinivasan, “Synchronization control for physics-based collaborative virtual environments with shared haptics,” Advanced Robotics, Volume 21, Number 9, pp. 1001-1029, 2007.
A. Morgans and A.M. Annaswamy, ”Adaptive control of combustion instabilities for combustion systems with right-half plane zeros,” Combustion Science and Technology, vol. 180: 1549-1571, 2008.
S.Huyer, D. Beal, D. Macumber, and A. Annaswamy, “Unsteady Vortex Flows Produced by Trailing Edge Articulation,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol.130, No. 3, March 2008.
P.R. Bandyopadhyay, S.N. Singh, D. P. Thivierge, A. M. Annaswamy, H A. Leinhos, A. R. Fredette, and D.N. Beal, “Synchronization of Animal-Inspired Multiple High-Lift Fins in an Underwater Vehicle Using Olivo-Cerebellar Dynamics,” IEEE J. Ocean Engineering, Vol. 33, NO. 4, Oct. 2008.
A.M. Annaswamy, J. Choi, and F.S. Alvi, “Pulsed Microjet Control of Supersonic Impinging Jets via Low Frequency Excitation,” Proc. IMechE, Part I: J. Systems and Control Engineering, Special Issue on Flow Control, vol. 222(I5), pp. 279-296, 2008.
H.M. Altay, S. Park, D. Wee, A.M. Annaswamy, and A.F. Ghoniem, “Modeling the dynamic response of a laminar perforated-plate stabilized flame,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009.
Y. Yildiz, A.M. Annaswamy, I. Kolmanovsky, and D. Yanakiev, Adaptive Posicast Controller for Time-delay Systems with Relative Degree n 2, Automatica, vol. 46, pp. 279-289, Feb. 2010.
Z.T. Dydek, A.M. Annaswamy, and E. Lavretsky, “Adaptive Control and the NASA X-15 Program: A Concise History, Lessons Learned, and a Provably Correct Design,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June 2010.
H. Voit, R. Schneider, D. Goswami, A.M. Annaswamy, and S. Chakraborty, Optimizing Hierarchical Schedules for Improved Control Performance, IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, Trento, Italy, July 2010.
C. Ong, A. Annaswamy, I. Kolmanovsky, P. Laing, and D. Reed, An Adaptive Proportional Integral Control of a Urea Selective Catalytic Reduction System Based on System Identification Models, SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubricant, 3(1): 625-642, 2010.
A. Kiani and A.M. Annaswamy, The effect of a smart meter on congestion and stability in a power market, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, December 2010.
Y. Yildiz, A.M. Annaswamy, D. Yanakiev and I. Kolmanovsky, “Spark Ignition Engine Fuel to Air Ratio Control: An Adaptive Control Approach,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1369-1378, Dec. 2010.
A.M. Annaswamy and S. Hong, “Control of unstable oscillations in flows,” The Control Handbook (Second Edition), Taylor and Francis, 2010.
A. Kiani and A. Annaswamy, “Wholesale energy market in a smart grid: Dynamic modeling, and stability,” Joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control/European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2011.
H. Voit and A.M. Annaswamy, R. Schneider, D. Goswami, and S. Chakraborty, “Adaptive Switching Controllers for Systems with Hybrid Communication Protocols,” American Control Conference, 2012 (to appear).

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Boeing Company
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