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Anuradha Annaswamy

Anuradha Annaswamy

Senior Research Scientist

Room 3-339A
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-0860  
Fax: 617-253-5981  
Email:
Web: http://web.mit.edu/aaclab

Administrative Contact:
Lorraine Rabb
Room 3-342
Phone: 617-253-2210  
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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.

 

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
Adaptive Control Theory and Applications to Propulsion and Transportation; Control of Thermo-fluid Systems; Active Combustion Control; Active-adaptive Flow Control; Dynamic Instability; Control using Neural Networks.

 

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.
  • A.F. Ghoniem, S. Park, A. Wachsman, A. Annaswamy, D. Wee, and H.M. Altay, “Mechanism of combustion dynamics in a backward-facing step stabilized premixed flame,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 30, pp. 1783-1790, 2005.
  • A.F. Ghoniem, A. Annaswamy, S. Park, and Z. Sobhani, “Stability and emissions control using air injection and H2 addition in premixed combustion,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute , vol. 30, pp. 1765-1773, 2005.
  • K.S. Narendra, and A.M. Annaswamy, Stable Adaptive Systems, Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2005.
  • D. Opila, A.M. Annaswamy, W.P. Krol, and S. Raghu, “Biomimetic reduction of wake deficit using tail articulation at low Reynolds number,” IEEE Transactions on Ocean Engineering , vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 766-776, July 2004.
  • A.J. Riley, S. Park, A.P. Dowling, S. Evesque, and A.M. Annaswamy, "Adaptive Closed-Loop Control on an Atmospheric Gaseous Lean-Premixed Combustor," ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power , vol. 126, October 2004.
  • S. Evesque, S. Park, A.J. Riley, A.M. Annaswamy, and A.P. Dowling, "Adaptive Combustion Instability Control with Saturation: Theory and Validation," AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1086-1095, 2004.
  • S. Evesque, A.P. Dowling, and A.M. Annaswamy, “Self-tuning regulators for combustion oscillations,” Royal Society Journal Proceedings of the Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , Vol 459, Issue 2035, pp 1709-1749, 2003.
  • S. Evesque, A.M. Annaswamy, S. Niculescu, and A.P. Dowling, “Adaptive Control of A Class of Time-delay Systems," ASME Transactions on Dynamics, Systems, Measurement, and Control, Special Issue on Time-delay Systems, vol. 125, pp. 186-193, 2003.
    • S.-I. Niculescu and A.M. Annaswamy, “An Adaptive Smith-Controller for Time-delay Systems with Relative Degree n*<=2,” Systems and Control Letters, vol. 49, pp. 347-358, 2003.
  • S. Murugappan, S. Park, A.M. Annaswamy, A.F. Ghoniem, S. Acharya, and D.C. Allgood, “Optimal Control of a Swirl Stabilized Spray Combustor Using System Identification Approach,” Combust. Sci. and Tech., vol. 175, pp.55-81, 2003.
  • C. Cao and A.M. Annaswamy, “Parameter convergence in nonlinearly parametrized systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 397-412, 2003.
  • A.M. Annaswamy and A.F. Ghoniem, “Active Control of Combustion Instability: Theory and Practice,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 37-54, Dec 2002.
  • A. Krupadanam, A.M. Annaswamy, and R. Mangoubi, “A Viable Multivariable Adaptive Controller for Autonomous Helicopters,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Navigation, and Control, vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 843-851, Sep 2002.
  • R. Prasanth, A.M. Annaswamy, J.P. Hathout, and A.F. Ghoniem, “When do open-loop strategies for combustion control work?, ” AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, vol. 18, no. 3, pp.658-668, May-June 2002.
  • A. Kojic and A.M. Annaswamy, ``Adaptive Control of Nonlinearly Parametrized Systems with a Triangular Structure,'' Automatica vol. 38, pp. 115-123, 2002.
  • S. Park, A.M. Annaswamy, and A.F. Ghoniem,``Heat release dynamics modeling of kinetically controlled burning,'' Combustion and Flame vol.128, pp.217-231, 2002.
  • J.P. Hathout, M. Fleifil, A.M. Annaswamy, and A.F. Ghoniem, ``Role of actuation in combustion control,'' Combustion Science and Technologyvol.167, pp. 57-82, 2001.
  • A.M. Annaswamy, M. Fleifil, J.W. Rumsey, R. Prasanth, J.P. Hathout, and A.F. Ghoniem, ``Thermoacoustic Instability: Model-based Optimal Control Designs and Experimental Validation,'' IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 8, 2000.

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  • US Office of Naval Research
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Boeing Company
  • NASA
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