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LEWIS, FRANK L., Ph.D. Wednesday, August **, ****

Professional Engineer, State of Texas

Chartered Engineer, U.K. Engineering Council

Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Fellow, Institute of Measurement and Control, U.K.

University Distinguished Scholar Professor, UTA

University Distinguished Teaching Professor, UTA

Moncrief-O'Donnell Chair, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UTA

Institute Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute UTARI

Elected Member, UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers

Head, Advanced Controls and Sensors Group, UTA Research Institute

Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Elected Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China.

Consulting Guest Professor, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Distinguished Professor, Univ. Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu

Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China

RESUME

See separate listing of Publications. Author of 15 textbooks, 250 journal papers, 24 reprint

volumes/journal special issues, 47 book chapters, 364 fully refereed & published conference papers.

ADDRESS UTA Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington

7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S, Ft. Worth, Texas 76118

tel 817-***-****, fax 817-***-****, internet *****@***.***, http://arri.uta.edu/acs

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL 2

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2

OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS 3

MAIN PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 3

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS 3

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY 3

ACTIVE RESEARCH INTERESTS 4

PUBLICATIONS--- (See Separate Listing) 5

PH. D. STUDENTS 5

SELECTED MASTERS STUDENTS 7

SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND AWARDS 9

SOCIETIES 10

HONORS AND AWARDS 10

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED 13

CONSULTING 20

PATENTS AWARDED 21

TEACHING AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT 21

SEMINARS AND SHORT COURSES OFFERED 22

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 24

PLENARY AND INVITED SPEAKER 25

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES 27

JOURNAL ACTIVITIES 32

REFERENCES, F. L. Lewis 33

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL

B.A. in physics/electrical engineering 1971

Rice University, Houston, Texas

M.E.E., Rice University, Houston, Texas 1971

M.S. in aeronautical systems 1977

University of West Florida, Pensacola

Ph.D. in electrical engineering 1981

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Dissertation Title: A Geometrical Approach to Linear Systems Based on the Riccati

Equation

Dissertation Advisor: Dr. E. W. Kamen

This thesis won the Monie Ferst Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Doctoral

Research.

Senior Member, IEEE 1986

Fulbright Fellow, Greece 1988

Professional Engineer, State of Texas, reg. nr. 72200 1992

Fellow, IEEE 1994

IEEE Control Systems Soc. Distinguished Lecturer 1998-2002

Elected to UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars, Charter Member 2004

UTA Research Institute Senior Research Fellow 2005

Fellow, U.K. Institute of Measurement and Control 2005

Chartered Engineer, U.K. Engineering Council, reg. nr. 562***-****

Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2008

Senior Member, Int. Neural Network Society 2010

Elected to UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers 2012

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

UTA Res. Inst., Univ. Texas at Arlington

Head, Advanced Controls and Sensors Group 1990-pres

Moncrief-O'Donnell Endowed Chair 1990-pres

Professor of Electrical Engineering 1990-pres

Georgia Institute of Technology

Adjunct Professor 1990-pres

Professor 1990

Associate Professor 1986-1990

Assistant Professor 1981-1986

Graduate Research Assistant 1977-1981

Lockheed Advanced Research Organization 1983-1987

Consulting in aircraft adaptive controls

Colonial Pipeline Company, Atlanta, GA 1978

Microprocessor design technician

Florida Junior College, Jacksonville, FL 1977

Instructor

United States Navy (Final Rank Lt.) 1971-1977

Acting Commanding Officer, USS SALINAN 1977

Executive Officer, USS SALINAN (ATF-161-****-****

Navigator & Division Officer, USS TRIPPE (FF-107*-****-****

Rice University, Houston, TX 1966-1971

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Columbia Scientific Company, Austin, TX 1970

Texas Nuclear Company, Austin, TX 1969

OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China

Elected Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China.

Consulting Guest Professor, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Adjunct Professor, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta

Steering Committee, Centre for Intelligent Control, National Univ. of Singapore, 2008-pres

External Academic Adviser, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering

Automation (MEEM), City University of Hong Kong, 1 Oct 2009-30 Sept. 2012.

MAIN PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Editor, Taylor & Francis Book Series on Automation & Control Engineering

Editor, Trans. Inst. Measurement and Control, Great Britain

Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief, J. Control Theory & Applications, South China Univ. Tech.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Hong Kong Univ. Science and Technology, Feb-April 1996, with Dr. Zexiang Li and Dr.

Xiren Cao.

Chinese Univ. Hong Kong, with Dr. Jie Huang- March 2003, March 2004, March 2005, May

2007, Jan 2008.

National Univ. Singapore, Oct. 2003, with Dr. Sam Ge.

Data Storage Institute, A-Star, National University of Singapore campus, August 2005, with

Dr. Guoxiao Guo and Dr. Sam Ge.

A-Star Institute for Infocom Research / Nanyang Technological University, March 2006,

with Dr. Lihua Xie and Dr. Wendong Xiao.

National University of Singapore, April 2006, with Dr. Ben Chen.

Nanyang Technological University, with Youyi Wang and Lihua Xie- Aug 2006, Jan 2008.

Data Storage Institute, A-Star, National University of Singapore campus, with Dr. Ong Eng

Hong and Dr. Sam Ge- Aug.-Sept. 2006, Aug 2007.

Singapore Manufacturing & Technology Institute, A-Star SIMTech, Visiting Research

Professor, August 2008-August 2010

Data Storage Institute, A-Star, National University of Singapore campus, with Dr. Ong Eng

Hong and Dr. Du Chunling- Aug.-2009-Aug 2011.

Singapore Manufacturing & Technology Institute, A-Star SIMTech, Distinguished Scholar

Professor 2009-2011.

City University of Hong Kong, Senior Research Fellow, August 2011.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Board of Governors of international associations including IEEE Control Systems Society, Ft.

Worth International Science and Engineering Fair 1998, Mediterranean Controls Association

(Founding Member). Editor, CRC Press/T&F Book Series on Automation & Control Engineering,

Serve/Served as Editor of International Journals incl. Automatica, Optimal Control & Methods,

Systems Man & Cybernetics B (AE). Served as member of NAE Committee on Space Station and

various advisory panels including Fulbright/Greece Selection Panel, NSF reviews, U.N. Umbrella

Project Warsaw, NSF/Portugal joint workshop on undersea vehicles. Principal Investigator on NSF

grants since 1982. Received $7 million in funding. Director, UTARI Controls DoD Small Business

Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Organizer of international workshops and conferences incl.

General Chair IEEE CDC Maui 2003, Gen. Chair Mediterranean Control Conf., Thessaloniki, June

2009.

1990-pres. At UTA, Professor in Elect. Eng. Dept., developing curriculum and teaching

courses on robotics and controls. At UTARI, Institute Senior Research Fellow and Principal

Research Engineer in charge of a research group of 8 Ph.D. students, 2 visiting faculty, and staff

engineers. Designed, financed, set up, and supervised: (1) Wireless Sensor Networks Lab, (2)

MEMS Design, Testing, Calibration Lab, (3) Research Lab on Real-Time Control of Industrial and

Military Systems, (4) Robotic Intelligent Manufacturing Handling Cell with 3 robots, and (5) EE

Systems & Control Undergraduate Teaching Lab.. Principal Investigator on research contracts.

Research in robust and adaptive nonlinear controls, intelligent control (neural nets, fuzzy logic,

decision-making systems), wireless sensor networks, MEMS sensors and actuators, robotics,

manufacturing processes, and DoD vehicle systems.

1980-1990. At Georgia Tech, Professor in Systems and Controls. Principal research topics:

generalized state-space systems, aircraft control, and robotics. Principal Investigator of research

projects, directing the research efforts of between 6 and 10 Ph.D. students and coordinating research

with several visiting faculty associates. Organization of and participation in international research

workshops and conferences. Served on and chaired various campus committees.

1983-1987. Consulting in adaptive systems and controls in aircraft applications for Lockheed

Advanced Research Organization, Atlanta, GA.

Experience in digital signal processing, including two-dimensional signal processing and

linear predictive coding. Experience with programming digital signal processors for controls

applications. 1977-1978- At Colonial Pipeline, repair and design of microprocessors using

MOTOROLA 6800 series components. At Columbia Scientific, research in nuclear scattering and

theories of vision. At Texas Nuclear, research in linguistics and vision. At Florida Junior College,

instructor in computer logic and construction. At Rice University, teaching signal analysis and

circuit design, researching applications of holography.

1971-1977. In U.S. Navy, acting Commanding Officer of USS SALINAN (ATF-161).

Navigator and Executive Officer on 86 man salvage vessel, in charge of materiel, vessel and

personnel readiness, and shipboard administration. Division Officer on the frigate USS TRIPPE

(FF-1075), Navigator, Gunnery/Missile Officer responsible for readiness for combat of Mk 54 five-

inch gun mount, two advanced missile systems, ISSM and BPDMS, using UNIVAC-based fire-

control system. Personnel and Administrative Officer, in charge of all ship's correspondence and

maintaining service records of 250 men, and Supervisor of shipboard clearance and security

program. Held Top-Secret Clearance, member and supervisor of Personnel Nuclear Reliability

Program.

ACTIVE RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cooperative multi-agent distributed systems.

Intelligent Control, Nonlinear Control Systems, Neural Networks in Control

Wireless Sensor Networks for area security monitoring & condition-based maintenance

Robotic System Control

Robust and Adaptive Systems and Control

Control of Complex Mechanical Systems with Vibration, Actuator Nonlinearities, etc.

Discrete-Event Systems

Manufacturing Process Control, Scheduling

PUBLICATIONS--- (See Separate Listing)

Books--- 14

Proceedings, Reprint Volumes, Journal Special Issues--- 24

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Articles--- 51

Journal papers--- 248

Refereed and Published Conference Papers--- 362

PH. D. STUDENTS

1. R.P. Malham, A Statistical Approach for Modeling a Class of Power System Loads, Feb.

1983. (Final adviser)

2. K. z aldiran, Control of Descriptor Systems, May 1985.

3. C.T. Abdallah, Robust Control and Game Theory for Nonlinear Systems with Applications to

Robotics, Sept. 1988.

4. G. Beauchamp, Algorithms For Singular Systems, Mar. 1990.

5. G.N. Maliotis, Adaptive Control of Partially Known Robotic Manipulators, Mar. 1990.

6. D.M. Dawson, Uncertainties in the Control of Robot Manipulators, Mar. 1990.

Darren Dawson won the NSF Young Investigator Award and the

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.

7. K. Liu, Decentralized Control of Interconnected Systems With Applications to Mobile Robots,

Sept. 1990.

8. A. Karamancioglu, Two-Dimensional Implicit Linear Systems, May 1991.

9. D. Fountain, Implicit Systems: Orthogonal Functions Analysis and Geometry, June 1991.

10. V. Syrmos, Feedback Design techniques in Linear System Theory: Geometric and Algebraic

Approaches, June 1991.

11. F. AL-Sunni, Applied Control of Linear Systems, May 1992.

12. C. Temponi, Dynamic Decision Model for an Integrated Manufacturing Enterprise: System

Theory Approach, May 1992.

13. J. Lin, Dynamic Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Flexible Structural Systems, May 1994.

This dissertation won the Republic of China "National Science Council

Award", 1995, the top honor for Ph.D. theses in Taiwan.

14. S. Jagannathan, Intelligent Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems using Multilayer Neural

Networks, Aug. 1994.

This dissertation won the UTA Sigma Xi Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 1994.

S. Jagannathan won the NSF Career Award.

15. A. Yesildirek, Nonlinear Control of Continuous-Time Systems Using Neural networks, Dec.

1994.

This dissertation was selected for publication as a book by Taylor and Francis.

16. M. Vandegrift, Nonlinear and Intelligent Control of Flexible Robotic Systems, May 1995.

17. H.-H. Huang, Modeling and Control of Discrete Event Manufacturing Systems, June 1995.

This dissertation won the Republic of China "National Science Council Research

Award", 1997.

18. S. Commuri, A Framework for Intelligent Control of Nonlinear Systems, May 1996.

This dissertation won the UTA Sigma Xi Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 1996.

19. R. Fierro, A Hybrid System Approach to a Class of Intelligent Control Systems, July 1997.

This dissertation won the Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Nacional Best Research Award,

1998.

R. Fierro won the NSF Career Award.

20. Y. Kim, Dynamic and High-Level Neural Networks for Control, July 1997.

This dissertation was selected for publication as a book by World Scientific Press.

21. R. Selmic, Neurocontrol of Industrial Motion Systems with Actuator Nonlinearities, May

2000.

This research won the UTA ARRI Best Paper Award in 1997 and the IEEE Ft. Worth

Section Graduate Student Paper First Place Award in 1999.

22. J. Campos, Intelligent Control of Complex Mechanical Systems, May 2000.

This research won the UTA ARRI Best Paper Award in 1998 and the IEEE Ft. Worth

Section Graduate Student Paper Second Place Award in 1999. Campos won the

Outstanding UTA International Student Award, 2000.

23. S. Ikenaga, Real Time Digital Controller for Active Suspension Control of Ground Vehicles,

May 2000.

24. B. Harris, Improving the Efficiency and Applicability of Machine Planning: Applications in

Manufacturing Scheduling and Routing, May 2002. Co-advised with Prof. Diane Cook, CSE

Dept.

25. J. Mireles, Matrix-Based Intelligent Discrete Event Control for Flexible Manufacturing

Systems, August 2002.

Mireles won the Best Presentation Award at the UTA Graduate Research Symposium in

2000, and the ARRI Student Paper Award in 2002.

26. O. Kuljaca, Intelligent Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Control of Industrial and Power

Systems, May 2003.

Kuljaca won the ARRI Best Paper Award, 2003.

27. N. Swamy, Control Algorithms for Networked Control and Communication Systems, May

2003.

28. M. Abu-Khalaf, Nonlinear H2/H-infinity Constrained Feedback Control: A Practical

Approach Using Neural Networks, Aug. 2005.

This thesis won the Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award, ARRI, 2005

This thesis was published as a book by Springer-Verlag.

29. V. Giordano, Experimental Implementation of Intelligent Controls for Autonomous

Robotic Systems, co-adviser with B. Turchiano, Tech. Inst. Bari, Italy, Aug. 2005.

30. B. Borovic, Modeling, Actuation, and Control of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS),

December 2005.

This thesis won the Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award, ARRI, 2005.

This thesis resulted in US Patent 7,548,011, awarded 16 June 2009.

31. Cheng Tao, Neural Network Solution for Fixed-Final Time Optimal Control of Nonlinear

Systems, December 2006.

32. J. Gadewadikar, H-Infinity Output Feedback Control: Application to Unmanned Aerial

vehicle, May 2007.

This thesis work resulted in the Institute Outstanding Student Research Award 2006.

This dissertation was selected for publication as a book by lambert Academic Publishing.

J. Gadewadikar won the Dept. of Homeland Security Early Career Faculty Scientific

Leadership Award

33. Asma Al-Tamimi, Discrete-Time Control Algorithms and Adaptive Intelligent Systems

Designs, May 2007.

34. P. Dang, Distributed Recognition, Actuation, and Control, Dec. 2007.

35. P. Ballal, Decision and Control in Distributed Cooperative Systems, May 2008

This thesis was published as a book by National Technology & Science Press, 2011.

36. Draguna Vrabie, Online Adaptive Optimal Control for Continuous-Time Systems, Dec.

2009.

Vrabie won the ARRI Outstanding Student Award, 2009.

Best Paper Award at Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks, Barcelona, 2010.

37. Abhijit Das, Control of Complex and Distributed Nonlinear Systems, Aug. 2010.

Abhijit was awarded the UTA Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship

38. Hongwei Zhang, Learning Techniques in Receding Horizon Control and Cooperative

Control, jointly advised with Jie Huang at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2010.

39. K. Vamvoudakis, Online Learning Algorithms For Differential Dynamic Games And

Optimal Control, May 2011.

Vamvoudakis won the ARRI Outstanding Student Award, 2010.

Best Paper Award for Autonomous/Unmanned Vehicles, Army Science Conf, Orlando,

29 Nov- 2 Dec, 2010.

40. E. Stingu, Intelligent Control and Cooperation for Autonomous Mobile Robots, Dec 2011.

41. M. Abouheaf, games on graphs, RL foe electric power dispatch, in progress.

42. Kristian Movric, Distributed Cooperative Control, in progress.

43. M. Aurangzeb, Coalitional Graph Games in progress.

44. Ali Bidram, cooperative control for electric power micro-grid, inprogress

45. Rubayiat Tousif, Reinforcement learning for human/robot interfaces, in progress

SELECTED MASTERS STUDENTS

1. Murad Abu-Khalaf, Intelligent Tracking of Geostationary Satellite Systems, Master s

Thesis, Sept. 2000.

2. Chanitnan Khanthapanit, Internet Based Control, Master s Thesis, May 2002.

This thesis won the UTA ARRI Best Paper Award in 2002.

3. N. Srianekkul, Control with Nonlinearity Compensation for 2-D Flexible-Link Robot

Arm, Master s Thesis Subst., Dec. 2003.

4. A. Tiwari, Design and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Based

Maintenance, Master s Thesis, May 2004.

5. P. Dang, Controller for swing-up and balance of single inverted pendulum using SDRE-

based solution, MS Thesis, July 2004.

6. S. Ramanathan, Behavior-based vision-guided MEMS probe station with implementation

in LabVIEW, MS Thesis, Aug. 2004.

7. A. Bhilegaonkar, Design and Implementation of Advanced Control Algorithms on an

Electromechanical Plant for Trajectory Tracking, MS Thesis subst., May 2005.

8. P. Ballal, Control Structure and Decisions in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, MS

thesis, Aug. 2005.

9. K. Sreenath, Adaptive Sampling with Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, MS thesis, co-

adviser, Dec. 2005.

This work won the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Robotics,

Automation, and Mechatronics, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2006.

This thesis was published as a book by IET Press, London, 2011.

10. A. N. Das, Data-Logging and Supervisory Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, MS

Thesis, Dec. 2005.

11. S.B. Gorthi, Real-Time Data Monitoring and Manipulation in Wireless Sensor

Networks, MS Thesis, May 2006.

12. A. Patkar, Localization in noisy environment using extended Kalman filter, MS Thesis,

Dec. 2007.

13. E. Stingu, Hardware Platform for Research in Helicopter UAV Control, MS Thesis May

2008.

14. A. Ramani, Diagnosis and Prognosis of Electrical and Mechanical Faults Using Wireless

Sensor Networks and a Two-Stage Neural Network Classifier, MS Thesis May 2008.

15. Chris McMurrough, "Real Time Hardware and Software Systems for Micro Air Vehicle

Flight Control Testing, MS Thesis, Dept. of CSE, Univ. Texas at Arlingtin, May 2010.

Received the Air Force Summer Fellowship to work at Wright Patterson AFB with Dr.

David Doman and Dr. Siva Banda, in both 2008 and 2009.

Received Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Dept of CSE, UTA, 2010.

His paper C. McMurrough, K. French, D. Doman, "Real-Time MAV Flight Control

System Testbed won the Multicore Graphical Design Achievement Award at National

Instruments Week, Austin, Aug. 2009

16. Matt Middleton, A Framework for Real-Time Fault Detection and Response in Multi-

Agent Teams, MS Thesis, Dept. of CSE, Univ. Texas at Arlington, Dec. 2010.

17. Drew Morgan, Minirobot Designs for Swarm Motions, adviser Dr. Alan Bowling. MS

Thesis,Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Univ. Texas at Arlington, May 2011.

Received the Air Force Summer Fellowship to work at Wright Patterson AFB with Dr.

David Doman and Dr. Siva Banda, in 2010.

18. I. Weintraub, multi-agent systems and UAV, in progress.

Received the Air Force Summer Fellowship to work at Wright Patterson AFB with Dr.

David Doman and Dr. Siva Banda, in 2011.

SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND AWARDS

Have advised numerous women and minority students under NSF REU funding or other funds.

1. Margaret Hoffmann. Her 1992 paper on Expert Systems Control won two awards: fourth

place at the IEEE Region 5 Meeting and second place in the National IEEE Industry

Applic. Soc. paper contest.

2. Nazee Barzin. Her paper on Discrete Event Manufacturing Systems won the UTA ARRI

Best Paper Award in 1992.

3. Antoine Langston. His 1993 paper on Robotics in Construction won two awards: the Ft.

Worth City and the Texas State Student Technical Paper Awards, Amer. Soc. Civil

Engineers.

4. Adam Floyd. His 1996 paper on Control of Complex Systems won the Sigma Xi Best

Paper Award at the UTA Symposium on Undergraduate Research.

5. Steve Scully. His 1999 paper on Modeling and Active Control of Vehicle Suspension

Systems won the Dean of Engineering Paper Award at the UTA Symposium on

Undergraduate Research.

6. Simon Halbur, Analysis of Wireless Systems for Sensor Networks, NSF REU Scholar,

summer 2002.

7. Shirin Haji-Mohammed, Control of systems with saturation, NSF REU Scholar,

summer 2002.

8. Alan Tomo, Internet-based control of robotic systems with vision, NSF REU Scholar,

summer 2002.

9. Tyson Henry, Control of mobile robot, NSF REU Scholar, summer 2003.

10. Joshua Small, MEMS design, NSF REU Scholar, summer 2003.

Andrew Dunn, LabVIEW for control, 8th grade student, Oakridge School, summer

11.

2003.

12. Keith Francis, Wireless Sensor Networks, NSF REU Scholar, 2003.

13. Antonio Quevedo, NSF REU Scholar, 2003. His paper Developing High Aspect Ratio

MicroGrippers Using Electroplating Techniques for Robustness" was selected for

presentation at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Conference, Chicago, Jan.

2004.

14. J. Heatherly, MEMS Sensors and Power Generation, NSF REU Scholar, BS, Aug. 2005

15. Ziye Zhang, Univ. S. California, visiting undergraduate student, summer 2006.

16. Chris McMurrough, autonomous flying vehicles, UTA undergraduate student in CSE.

Participated in design team that won 3rd place at the regional Robotics Challenge, 2006.

17. Matt Middleton, autonomous flying vehicles, UTA undergraduate student in CSE.

Participated in design team that won 3rd place at the regional Robotics Challenge, 2006.

SOCIETIES

(current and past member)

IEEE Societies of Automatic Control, Computational Intelligence, Industrial Electronics

International Neural Networks Society, 2006

U.K. Institute of Measurement and Control

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, member 2012.

Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Fulbright Association

Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars

Sigma Pi Sigma (physics)

Sigma Tau (electrical engineering)

Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics)

Phi Kappa Phi

HONORS AND AWARDS

(Most Significant awards in boldface.)

National and International Awards

Received National Science Foundation "Research Initiation Grant," July 1982.

Elected to Senior Member, IEEE, December 1986.

Fulbright Fellow Award for Program of Educational Exchange Between the United States

and Greece, October 1988.

Invited to participate in the Fulbright Selection Committee for Greek Candidates, Athens,

Greece, Oct. 1988.

Amer. Soc. Engineering Education Frederick E. Terman Award for Authors Under Forty,

March 1989.

Invited Speaker, Fulbright Orientation Course for students studying in the U.S., Athens, Greece,

June 1989.

Moncrief-O'Donnell Endowed Chair, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The

Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Sept. 1990.

Invited Consultant-Lecturer, United Nations Umbrella Project, Warsaw, Poland, July 1991.

Elected to Fellow, IEEE, January 1994.

Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Dallas Section, Mar. 1994.

IEEE Control Systems Society International Outstanding Chapter Award, as founding

Chairman of DFW CSS Chapter, July 1994.

Outstanding Paper Award, Dallas/Ft. Worth IEEE Control Systems Chapter, 1994.

Appointed to National Academy of Engineering s 'NASA Committee on the Space Station',

Jan. 1995-Dec. 1995.

Engineer of the Year, Ft. Worth IEEE Section, April 1995.

Invited Participant, National Science Foundation/Portugal 'Joint Workshop on Undersea

Robotics & Intelligent Control', Lisbon, March 1995.

Appointed to the Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1995-2002.

Key Contributor, U.S. Small Business Administration SBIR Tibbets Award, June 1996.

Sigma Xi National "Certificate of Excellence" for UTA Chapter, as President of UTA

Chapter, Oct. 1997.

Appointed as IEEE Control Systems Society "Distinguished Lecturer", 1998-2002.

Ft. Worth Business Press, Who's Who in Manufacturing, Top 200 Leaders, 1999-pres.

Elected to the New York Academy of Sciences, June 2000.

Selected as Distinguished Speaker, 10th Anniversary Ceremony of Engineering Faculty, Chinese

University of Hong Kong, Nov. 2001.

Finalist, STARTech Dallas Business Plan Competition, March 2002.

Elected Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, March

2003.

Elected as Consulting Professor, South China University of Technology, March 2004.

Elected as Fellow, U.K. Institute of Measurement and Control, Nov. 2005.

Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Mechatronics,

Bangkok, Thailand, June 2006, K. Sreenath, F.L. Lewis and D. Popa.

Elected as Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, U.K., July 2006.

Appointed to Steering Committee, Centre for International Control, National University of

Singapore, 2007.

Elected as Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), April 2008

Gabor Award, Int. Neural Network Society, 2009.

Honeywell International Medal for Control Technology, U.K. Inst. Measurement and

Control, 2009.

Benjamin Meaker Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol, U.K. March 2010. Sponsored by

Dr. Guido Herrmann

IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, April 2010.

Visiting Scholar Fellow, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, SIMTech, A-

Star, 2009-2013.

Best Paper Award, Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks, Barcelona, July 2010. D. Vrabie and F.L.

Lewis.

Best Paper Award for Autonomous/Unmanned Vehicles, Army Science Conf, Orlando, 29

Nov- 2 Dec, 2010.

Best Application Paper Award, Asian Control Conference, Taiwan, May 2011.

Distinguished Professor, Univ. Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 2012.

Elected as Guest Professor, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China, 2012.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer Award, 2012.

University Awards

Monie A. Ferst Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in Engineering, Ga. Tech.,

May 1981.

Eta Kappa Nu "Outstanding Teacher Award", Ga. Tech., May 1981.

Monie A. Ferst Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Award in Engineering Research, Ga. Tech., May

1984.

Monie A. Ferst Sigma Xi Faculty Best Paper Award, Ga. Tech., May 1990.

Halliburton Outstanding Research Award, UTA, Feb. 1992.

Jeff Collins Best Paper Award, ARRI, Feb. 1992.

Jeff Collins Best Paper Award, ARRI, Feb. 1993.

ARRI Sponsored Research Award, Feb. 1993.

University-Wide Distinguished Research Career Award, The Univ. of Texas at Arlington,

April 1994.

ARRI Patent Award, 1996.

ARRI Best Paper Award, 1997.

ARRI Best Paper Award, 1998.

ARRI Sponsored Research Award, 1999.

UTA University-Wide Outstanding Research Achievement Award, March 2000.

ARRI Patent Award, 2000.

Jeff Collins Best Paper Award, ARRI, Feb. 2003.

Elected as Charter Member of UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars, March 2004.

Senior Research Fellow, Automation & Robotics Research Institute, 2005.

ARRI Leadership & Innovation Award, 2007.

UTA Graduate Dean s Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Award, 2010.

Elected to UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers, April 2012.

Who's Who Listings

Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and

Southwest, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who's Who of Emerging

Leaders in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering

Marquis Who s Who in Higher Education, Who s Who in American Education, Who s

Who Among America s Teachers, Who s Who in Finance and Business.

Who s Who Among Executives and Professionals, Honors Edition, 2008.

Research Publications Who's Who in Technology Today

American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale.

Int. Biog. Centre, Cambridge, England, Men of Achievement, International Leaders in

Achievement, International Register of Profiles, Dictionary of Int. Biography, 2000 Outstanding

Scientists of the 20th Century, Twentieth Century Award for Achievement, International Man of

the Year 2000/2001, Who s Who in the 21st Century.

Amer. Biog. Inst. International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, Community

Leaders of America, Leading Intellectuals of the World, Great Minds of the 21st Century.

Amer. Biog. Inst Man of the Year Award, 2009.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED

Continuously funded by NSF since 1982. Total funding, 88 grants for a total in excess of $7M.

1. Georgia Tech Foundation Faculty Development Grants, approx $40K

Development of Systems and Controls Laboratory, $1000 for equipment, Jan. 1982.

Development of Kalman Filtering Short Course, $1500 for expenses, June 1983.

Completion of Optimal Control and Optimal Estimation manuscripts, $10,000 for typing

expenses and release time, 1985.

Supplementary funding to accept Fulbright Award for study in Greece: $9099, Oct. 1988;

$9607, May 1989.

Funding for "International Cooperative Program in Singular Systems," $9000, Mar. 1990.

2. Georgia Tech Research Corporation Grants, approx. $8K.

Travel to Greece for conference and research, $1200, Dec.1986.

Travel to Los Angeles for helping organize IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, $1100, Dec.

1987.

Funding to organize "International Symposium on Singular Systems," Atlanta, GA, $4200,

Dec. 1987.

Expenses for attending American Control Conference in Atlanta, for organizing IEEE Conf.

on Dec. and Control, $800, June 1988.

Travel to Paris to attend IMACS World Congress, $1000, July 1988.

3. Equipment Donations, $30K.

Texas Instruments Equipment Grant:

"Digital Controls Laboratory," equipment worth $10,000, Nov. 1990.

Texas Instruments Equipment Grant:

"Digital Controls Laboratory," equipment worth $20,000, Nov. 1991.

4. National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Grant (RIG) ECS-8204656:

"Extension of Geometric System Theory to Descriptor Systems", 2 year grant for $47,237,

July 1982.

The research performed under this RIG resulted in the Monie Ferst Sigma Xi

Junior Faculty Award in 1984.

5. Georgia Tech Research Institute Project Number A-4316:

Boeing Advanced Technology Demonstration Program, "Space Station Thermal Control

System" subproject, 1 year grant for $138,485, Co-PI, Sept. 1985.

6. NSF Grant ECS-8518164:

"Subspace Recursions and Structure Algorithms for Singular Systems", 2 year grant for

$54,134, April 1986.

7. NSF Grant ECS-8805932:

"Structure and Output Feedback in Singular Systems," 3 year grant for $200,028, Sept. 1988.

The research performed under this grant resulted in the Monie Ferst Sigma Xi

Faculty Best Paper Award, May 1990.

8. Ga. Tech. Research Inst. Internal Research Grant E904-039:

"Research in Control System Time-Response Shaping," Co-PI, 1 year grant for $78,544, July

1989.

9. NSF Grant MSS-8907779:

"Engineering Research Equipment: A Basic Hardware Configuration For Robotics Research,"

Co-PI, 1 year grant for $20,373, July 1989.

10. NSF Grant MSS-9114009:

"Integrated Modelling and Control for Intelligent Material Handling," Co-PI, 2 year grant for

$350,000, Sept. 1991.

11. Texas Advanced Technology Program Grant 003656-008:

"Modular Controls and Hardware Design for Manufacturing Workstations," 2 year grant for

$248,000, Oct. 1991.

12. Texas Instruments Grant:

"Modular TMS320 C30-Based Controller for the Stewart Platform," $10,000 Graduate Student

Fellowship, Oct. 1991.

13. Tandy Electronics, Inc.:

"Intelligent Scheduling of Material Flow in Personal Computer Assembly Plant," contract for

$50,000, Mar. 1992- Mar. 1993.

14. NSF Grant USE-9250179:

"Undergraduate Control Experiences Laboratory," 2 year equipment grant for $23,000, July

1992.

15. NSF Grant MSS-9211970:

"Research Equipment Grant: Robotic Systems Control Research Lab," 2 year equipment grant

for $20,000, Aug. 1992.

16. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. contract:

"Development of a Mobile Duct Painting Manipulator - Phase I," Co-PI, contract for $94,889,

July-Aug. 1992.

17. Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. contract:

"Development of a Mobile Duct Painting Manipulator - Phase II," Co-PI, contract for

$159,000, Sept. 1992 - Feb. 1993.

18. NSF Grant IRI-9216545:

"A Generic Framework for Flexible Agent-Based Intelligent Control," 3 year grant for

$200,000, Oct. 1992.

19. Electric Power Research Institute:

Supplementary funding for NSF grant "A Generic Framework for Flexible Agent-Based

Intelligent Control," 3 year contract for $100,000, Oct. 1992.

20. Electrocom Automation, Inc.:

"Intelligent Vision-Guided Robotic Manipulator For Paper Handling," contract for $10,400,

Oct.-Dec. 1992.

21. NSF Grant MSS-9114009 REU Supplement:

Research Experiences for Undergraduates supplementary funding for "Integrated Modelling

and Control for Intelligent Material Handling," $15,000, Nov. 1992.

22. NSF Grant GER-9355110:

"Graduate Research Traineeships in Robotics/Intelligent Control," 5 year grant for $557,500,

Oct. 1993.

23. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"AN/WSC-6 Antenna Control," 3 week contract for $7030, May 1994.

24. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"AN/WSC-6 Antenna Modeling, Computer Simulation, and Controls Analysis," 3 month

contract for $37,930, Jun. 1994.

25. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Modeling and Pointing Control of Antenna Aboard Moving Vehicle," co-PI, 3 month contract

for $43,000, Aug. 1994.

26. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Complex Tracking Systems with Vibration," 1 year

grant for $26,000, Aug. 1994.

27. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Hydraulic Stewart Platform Demonstration," co-PI, 3 month contract for $58,216, Aug. 1994.

28. NSF Grant DMI-9413923:

"Equipment Development for High-Performance Robotics Intelligent Material Handling in

Unstructured Environments," 5 year grant for $210,784, Sep. 1994.

29. U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract,

Phase I:

"Design and Implementation of Advanced Controllers for Vibratory Weapons Systems," co-PI

with Simis Labs, 6 mo. contract for $75,000, Feb. 1995.

30. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Implementation Support for AN-WSC-6 Antenna Positioning System," co-PI, 3 month

contract for $25,923, Apr. 1995.

31. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Background Study for AN-WSC-6 Antenna Positioning System," co-PI, 3 month contract for

$10,000, Apr. 1995.

32. Electrocom Automation, Inc.

"Engineering Services Agreement," co-PI, $15,000, June 1995.

33. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"ARRI Membership," PI, 1 year grant for $26,000, Oct. 1995.

34. NSF Grant ECS-9521673:

"Neural Networks for Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems," 3 year grant for $148,596,

Oct. 1995.

35. U.S. Army ARO Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase II:

"Design and Implementation of Advanced Controllers for Vibratory Weapons Systems," co-PI

with Simis Labs, 2 yr. contract for $180,000, Feb. 1996.

36. U.S. Army ARO Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase I:

"Hybrid Controller for Complex Weapons Systems," co-PI with Sagent Corp., 6 mo. contract

for $13,000, Feb. 1996.

The award of the SBIR contracts and the work performed under them contributed in large

measure to ARRI s winning in 1996 of the National SBA Tibbets Award.

37. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"C30 Antenna Controller Tracking Estimation Algorithm Redesign" co-PI, 1 month contract

for $19,500, May 1996.

38. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Design Support for 6.1m Conformable Antenna Development" co-PI, 1 month contract for

$10,000, June 1996.

39. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Technical Assistance in Support of 93C-30 ACU Titan Application" co-PI, 1 month contract

for $9,927, Oct. 1996.

40. Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"ARRI Membership," PI, 1 year grant for $26,000, Nov. 1996.

41. U.S. Army ARO Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase I:

"Extension of Intelligent Sensor Based Robotic Systems Technologies," co-PI with Simis

Labs, 6 mo. contract for $31,016, Nov. 1996.

42. U.S. Army ARO Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase I:

"Advanced Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Control Technology," PI, Intelligent Automation,

Inc., 6 mo. subcontract for $12,500, Feb. 1997.

43. NSF Grant ECS-9521673 REU Supplement:

Research Experiences for Undergraduates supplementary funding for "Neural Networks for

Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems," $9,996, April 1997.

44. Raytheon Electrospace Systems, Inc.:

"Assistance in the Improvement of Timing Methods for 93C-30 Real-Time Controller" co-PI,

3 month contract for $16,107, April 1997.

45. U.S. Army ARO Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase II:

"Nonlinear/Fuzzy Logic Control for Scout Active Suspension and Steering," PI, Davis

Technologies Int., 12 mo. subcontract for $34,000, Sep. 1997.

46. NSF Grant DMI-9724497:

"MRI Equipment for Next Generation Supervisory and Real-Time Controller for

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Workcells," 3 year grant $110,091, Sept. 1997.

47. Texas ATP Award:

F.L. Lewis and J.M. Fitzgerald, "Intelligent Real-Time Control System for Industrial and DoD

Motion Systems," 2 year grant for $121,523, Oct. 1997.

48. U.S. Navy ONR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase I:

"Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Multiple Models," PI, Intelligent

Automation, Inc., 6 mo. contract for $22,998, June 1998.

49. NSF Grant ECS-9521673 REU Supplement:

Research Experiences for Undergraduates supplementary funding for "Neural Networks for

Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems," $10,000, Jan. 1999.

50. U.S. Army Research Office Grant DAAD19-99-1-0137, "Neural Network Control of DoD and

Industrial Motion Systems," PI, 3 year grant for $210,000, March 1999.

51. UTA Centennial Funds Grant, "Equipment for Web-Based Virtual Controls Teaching Lab,"

PI, 1 year grant for $50,000, May 1999.

52. Bell Helicopter Textron, "Testbed for Laser Positioning Sensors," co-PI, 6 month contract for

$83,000, June 1999.

53. Andrew Corp, " Satellite Tracking Antenna Controller Design," PI, 6 month contract for

$65,700, Apr. 2000.

54. U.S. Army Research Office DURIP Grant DAAD19-00-1-0037, "Supervisory and Motion

Control for DoD and Industrial Dynamical Systems," PI, equipment grant for $75,000, March

2000.

55. Bell Helicopter, Laser-Assisted Automated Machine Tool Verification System, co-PI, 6

month contract for $45,000, Aug. 2000.

56. UTA LERR Laboratory Equipment Funds, Lab Equipment for Capstone Design Course in

Control Engineering, $5,000, June-Aug. 2001.

57. UTA LERR Laboratory Equipment Funds, Lab Equipment for Microelectromechanical

Systems (MEMS) Teaching and Design, $35,000, Sept. 2001.

58. NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract, Phase I:

"MEMS Wire Testing for Aging Aircraft," PI, Williams Pyro, Inc., 6 mo. contract for $14,500,

Jan. 2002.

59. F.L. Lewis, Summer Youth Technology Program, $5886 in Grand Prairie SER funding for

Paul Selvaraj to teach kids during Summer 2002.

60. F.L. Lewis, Nonlinear Network Structures for Dynamic System Control, NSF, $200,000

for 3 years, July 2002.

61. F.L. Lewis, Nearly Optimal Solution of HJB Equation using Neural Networks:

Applications to Control of DoD Systems and MEMS Assembly, Army Research Office,

$200,000 grant for 3 years, Sept. 2002.

62. F.L. Lewis, K. Behbehani, D.B. Wallace, and E. Kolesar, GOALI- Optical MEMS-Based

Sensors for Medical and Biological Applications, NSF, $235,000 for 3 years, Sept. 2002.

63. F.L. Lewis and J. Mireles, Bi-National Effort on Distributed Manufacturing Supervisory

Control Systems, NSF/CONACyT, $80,000 for 3 years, Sept. 2002.

64. F.L. Lewis, NSF REU Supplement- Research Experiences for Undergraduates

supplementary funding for "Nonlinear Network Structures for Dynamic System Control,"

$10,000, Aug. 2003.

65. F.L. Lewis and J. Mireles, NSF Supplement- Workshop support supplement for Bi-

National Effort on Distributed Manufacturing Supervisory Control Systems, $9,000,

Sept. 2003.

66. F.L. Lewis, NSF REU Supplement- Research Experiences for Undergraduates

supplementary funding for "Nonlinear Network Structures for Dynamic System Control,"

$5,958, May 2004.

67. J.B. Zhang et al. PIs, F.L. Lewis international collaborator co-PI, Integrating equipment

health prognostics in high value manufacturing, Singapore Science & Engineering

Research Council, $28,735, Sept. 2004 for 6 months.

68. L. Holder, I. Ahmad, S. Das, F.L. Lewis, F. Lu, NSF MRI- Acquisition of Instrumentation

for Engineering Research in Advanced Security Detection Systems, $250K, Sept. 2004,

3 years.

69. F.L. Lewis and J. Mireles, NSF Supplement- Workshop support supplement for Bi-

National Effort on Distributed Manufacturing Supervisory Control Systems, $8,000,

Sept. 2004.

70. Internal awards from Univ. Texas at Arlington, Dec. 2004

F.L. Lewis and H. Stephanou, Equipment for MEMS Assembly Station, $55,000.

J. Gadewadikar and F.L. Lewis, Equipment for Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, $18,750.

71. F.L. Lewis and R. Gracy, Wireless Biochemical Toxin Sensor Network, UNT Health

Science Center/UTA Joint Funding, $12,000, April 2005.

72. F.L. Lewis, LabVIEW Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks, National Instruments,

Inc., Lead User Program, $25,000, May 2005.

73. F.L. Lewis, Wireless Sensor Network Development System for Security, BDA, and

Biochemical Monitoring, Army Research Office DURIP equipment grant, $78,741, March

2005.

74. International collaborator on Intelligent Control for Hard Disk Drives, Data Storage

Institute, A-Star, National Univ. Singapore campus, PI G. Guo and S.S. Ge, $250,000 for 3

years, August 2005.

75. F.L. Lewis, Nonlinear Motion Control for DoD and Industrial Systems, ARO grant,

$260,000 for 3 years, July 2005.

76. F.L. Lewis, Adaptive Critics for Nonlinear Continuous-Time Systems, NSF grant, $240,000

for 3 years, July 2005.

77. Y. Liu, S. Das, and F.L. Lewis, Defending Against Compromised Nodes in Wireless

Sensor Networks: A Multi-Layer Security Framework, Texas ARP Program, $100,000

for 3 years, May 2006.

78. International Collaborator on "Markov Jump System Theory for Collaborative Signal and

Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Network, Singapore SERC Grant No: 052

101 0037, $15,000, PI Lihua Xie, Nanyang Technological University, April 2006.

79. International collaborator on Disturbance Rejection for Mobile Hard Disk Drives, Data

Storage Institute, A-Star, National Univ. Singapore campus, PI J. Zhang and S.S. Ge,

$250,000 for 3 years, August 2007.

80. F.L. Lewis and Weijen Lee, Dept. of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

Contract, Phase I: "Secure and Reliable Wireless Communication and Fault Diagnosis for

Energy Control Systems, from SignalPro, Inc., PI Chiman Kwan, 9 mo. contract for

$33,000, Jun 2007-Mar. 2008.

81. F.L. Lewis, Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Continuous Time Systems and

Networked Agents on Graphs, NSF grant, $250,000 for 3 years, July 2008.

82. F.L. Lewis, Supervisory Control and Nonlinear Motion Control of Networked Autonomous

Teams, ARO MIPR extension grant, $100,000 for 15 months, July 2008,

83. F.L. Lewis and Weijen Lee, Dept. of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

Contract, Phase II: "Secure and Reliable Wireless Communication and Fault Diagnosis for

Energy Control Systems, from SignalPro, Inc., PI Chiman Kwan, 2 year contract for

$180,000, Oct. 2008-Oct. 2010.

84. International Collaborator on "Aircraft structure health monitoring and diagnosis using

intelligent active sensor network technology, $200,000, PI Chunling Du, Singapore A-

Star data Storage Institute Grant, 3 years, Feb. 2009.

85. F.L. Lewis, Trust Based Collaborative Control for Teams on Communication Networks,

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), $250,000 for 3 years, April 2009.

86. F.L. Lewis, High Performance Intelligent Controller for Systems with Unknown

Dynamics, DARPA SBIR Phase I, through Signal Processing, Inc, PI Chiman Kwan,

$30,000 for 6 months, June 2009.

87. F.L. Lewis and S. Das, Graduate Research Supplement for PhD student support, $100,000

for 3 years, July 2009. NSF GRS grant on NSF grant Pervasively Secure Infrastructures,

PI S. Das.

88. F.L. Lewis and S. Das., Undergraduate Supplement support, $16,000, May 2010, on NSF

grant Pervasively Secure Infrastructures, PI S. Das.

89. F.L. Lewis, Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Real-Time Cooperative Multi-Player

Games and Graphical Games, NSF Grant, $272,000 for 3 years, July 2011.

90. D. Popa, Z.Celik-Butler, D. Butler, and F.L. Lewis, NRI: Multi-Modal Skin and Garments

for Healthcare and Home Robots, NSF Grant, $1.3M for 4 years, April 1012. Lewis

share $250,000.

CONSULTING

1. Network Analysis, Celulosa de Chihuahua, S.A. Chihuahua, Mexico, March 1982.

2. Adaptive and Multivariable Control Applications to Aircraft, Lockheed Advanced

Research Organization, Atlanta, GA, 1983-1987.

3. Simulation, Control, and Estimation for Radar Tracking, Georgia Tech Research Institute,

Atlanta, GA, summer 1988.

4. Implementation of Real-Time Controllers, Sagent Corp., May 1996.

5. Fuzzy Logic Compensation of Deadzones in Vehicle Active Suspension, Davis Technol.

Int., 1997-1998.

6. MEMS Testing of Aircraft Wiring Systems, Williams Pyrotechnic, Inc., 2002

7. National Univ. Singapore, analysis and control of UAV helicopters, May 2006.

8. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Decision and Control in Wireless Sensor

Networks, Aug. 2006.

9. A-Star Data Storage Institute, Singapore, analysis and design of control systems for

portable hard disk drives, Sept. 2006, Aug. 2009.

10. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Control of Electric Power Systems, Aug.

2007.

11. Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-Star SIMTech, intelligent

diagnostics & prognostics, June 2008, July 2009.

12. A-Star Data Storage Institute, Singapore, intelligent diagnostics & prognostics, Aug 2009,

July 2010.

13. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, distributed control, Jan. 2010.

14. Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-Star SIMTech, control for

sustainable manufacturing and green engineering, May 2010.

15. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, distributed control, Jan. 2011.

16. Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-Star SIMTech, control for

transshipment sorting hubs, July 2011.

17. Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-Star SIMTech, renewable energy

and sustainable manufacturing, March 2012

PATENTS AWARDED

1. A. Yesildirek and F.L. Lewis, "Method for feedback linearization of neural networks and

neural network incorporating same," U.S. Patent 5,943,660, awarded 24 August 1999.

2. S. Jagannathan and F.L. Lewis, "Discrete-time tuning of neural network controllers for

nonlinear dynamical systems," U.S. Patent 6,064,997, awarded 16 May 2000.

3. F.L. Lewis, D.A. Tacconi, Ayla Gurel, and O.C. Pastravanu, "Method and Apparatus for

Testing and Controlling a Flexible Manufacturing System," U.S. Patent 6,185,469,

awarded 6 Feb. 2001.

4. R. Selmic, F.L. Lewis, A.J. Calise, and M.B. McFarland, "Backlash Compensation Using

Neural Network," U.S. Patent 6,611,823, awarded 26 Aug. 2003.

5. J. Campos and F.L. Lewis, "Method for Backlash Compensation Using Discrete-Time

Neural Networks," U.S. Patent 7,080,055, awarded July 2006.

6. B. Borovic, F.L. Lewis, A.Q. Liu, and D. Popa, Systems and Methods for Improved

Control of Micro-Electrical-Mechanical System (MEMS) Electrostatic Actuator, U.S.

Patent 7,548,011, awarded 16 June 2009.

PATENTS APPLIED FOR AND DISCLOSURES

1. K. Vamvoudakis, D. Vrabie, and F.L. Lewis, Control methodology for online adaptation

to optimal feedback controller using integral reinforcement learning, provisional patent,

filed March 2012.

2. V.L. Syrmos and F.L. Lewis, "VLSI implementation of the inverse of the matrix pencil

(zE-A) via systolic arrays," Disclosure of Invention, Ga. Tech, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1988.

3. F.L. Lewis, C.T. Abdallah, and D.M. Dawson, "Hardware analog control chip for robot

arm," Disclosure of Invention, Ga. Tech., Atlanta, Nov. 1988.

4. K. Liu and F.L. Lewis, "Stewart platform manipulator control system," Disclosure of

Invention, The Univ. Texas at Arlington, Dec. 1991.

5. J. Lin and F.L. Lewis, "Two-time scale Kalman filter for flexible system estimation,"

Disclosure of Invention, The Univ. Texas at Arlington, Dec. 1994.

TEACHING AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT

1. At Georgia Tech.:

Taught one or two graduate or undergraduate courses per quarter for 10 years. Course

topics included systems theory, controls, robotics, circuits, analog devices, digital devices.

Developed Controls Project Lab

Participated in Undergraduate Systems & Controls Curriculum Revision

Graduate courses developed:

Robot Dynamics and Control

Implicit Systems

Large-Scale Systems

Geometric Systems Theory

2. At UT Arlington:

1990, Revised entire Controls Curriculum of School of Engineering (Committee Chair).

Developed Undergraduate Controls Laboratory with $60,000 from 3 NSF grants.

Undergraduate courses developed:

Control Systems Capstone Design Project

Graduate courses developed:

Robot Dynamics and Control

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control

Kalman Filtering

Intelligent, Fuzzy, Neural Control

Computer Methods in Control Systems Design

Distributed Decision & Cooperative Control on Graphs

Developed WWW-based coursework, putting on the web the courses: EE 4314 Control

Systems, EE 5325/4315 Robotics, EE 4343/5329 Control Systems Capstone Design Project, EE

5307 linear Systems, EE 5322 Intelligent Control Systems, EE 5329 Distributed Decision &

Control

These courses are linked to http://arri.uta.edu/acs

SEMINARS AND SHORT COURSES OFFERED

1. "General Engineering Refresher", EIT exam 2 day course: Spring and Fall, Ga. Tech.,

1982-1990.

2. "Applications of Singular Systems," lecture: Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, Nov. 1988;

SUNY Stony Brook, April, 1989.

3. "Aircraft Control," lecture: Clemson Univ., SC, March 1990.

4. "Robust Nonlinear Control," lecture: The Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Aug. 1990.

5. "Kalman Filtering", 2 day course: Ga. Tech. June 1983.; Univ. Texas at Arlington, May

1992, May 1993.

6. "Adaptive Control", lecture: Ga. Tech., April 1985.

7. "Control of Robot Manipulators", lecture: Univ. of Patras, Greece, Dec. 1986; Univ. of

Thrace

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