Electrical Engineering Control Systems

YURI B SHTESSEL

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Retired Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering with concentration in Control Systems, 27 years of experience, produced 20 PhD students. Worked as a contractor and provided consulting for government and industry. Excelled in high accuracy robust guidance, navigation and control systems design for aircraft, RLV, UAV, and missiles, including hypersonic ones. Published more than 450 technical papers, and acquired 1 patent. Experience

University of Alabama in Huntsville,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor, 1993-2020

-Teaching Control System courses,

-Conducting research in guidance, navigation and control systems for aircraft, RLV, UAV, and missiles,

NASA, Contractor, 6/2001 – 8/2019 Developed, simulated and studied:

-MATALB-Based Sliding Mode Control Toolbox,

-RLV Integrated Guidance and Control,

-Damaged RLV Reconfigurable Sliding Mode Control,

-Launch vehicle bending modes control.

Eglin Air Force Base, Contractor, 8/2012 – 5/2013. Developed, simulated and studied: Higher Order Sliding Mode Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Missiles.

U.S. Army Strategic Missile Defense Command,

Contractor, 12/1999-3/2002

Developed, simulated and studied: Sliding Mode

Controller Design for Advanced Interceptors.

U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command

Contractor, 05/10/01 – 09/30/01.

Developed, simulated and studied: Missile’s Smooth Sliding Mode Controller Design.

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Contractor, 01/1998-12/1998

Developed, simulated and studied: Sliding Mode Control Approach for Damaged Tailless Aircraft Re-configurable Flight Control.

Moseley Technical Services, (contractor at Boeing) Consulting, 04/2022-10/2024

Developed, simulated and studied: IMU Sensor

Improvement.

Aero Thermo-Technology

Consulting, 01/2017-03/2021.

Developed, simulated and studied: IMU Gyroscopic and Accelerometer Measurement Improvement by Input

Reconstruction.

Davidson Technologies

Consulting, 06/2005-06/2014.

Developed, simulated and studied: Missile and Satellite Guidance and Control.

Radiance Technologies

Consulting, 02/2003-09/2005.

Developed, simulated and studied Missile Interceptor Guidance and Control.

KT Engineering

Consulting, 01/2004-05/2004.

Developed, simulated and studied: Ballistic Missile Control.

Education

South Ural State University, Russia

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Multiple criteria optimal control problems in autonomous systems, 1979 MSE, Electrical Engineering, Parameter optimization of autonomous automatic control systems, 1971. Skills:

Team leadership, full command of Control System algorithms, MATLAB/SIMULINK, Altair Embed software (model-based design software for developing algorithms for complex embedded systems). Bilingual: English and Russian.

A list of relevant journal publications (total >450 publications)

1. S. Kode, Y. Shtessel, A. Levant, J. Rakoczy, M. Hannan, and J. Orr, “Development of Relative Degree Based Aerospace Sliding Mode Control MATLAB Toolbox with Cases Study”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 39, No 9, pp. 72- 96, 2024.

2. M. Nixon and Y. Shtessel, "Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of a Perturbed Satellite Formation Antenna Array," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 58, No. 5, October 2022, pp. 4595-4614, 2022.

3. M. Alfayizi, Y. Shtessel, and C. Edwards. “Quad-Rotor Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Using Only Position and Yaw Sensors: Generalized Relative Degree Approach,” the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 359, Issue 1, January 2022, pp. 492-519

4. R. J. Rajesh, Y. Shtessel, and C. Edwards, “Accuracy Improvement of Dynamic Sensors Using Sliding Mode Observers with Dynamic Extension,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 316, December 2020. 5. C. Tournes, Y. Shtessel, and A. Spenser, “Hypersonic Glider Autopilot using Adaptive Higher Order Sliding Mode Control with Impulsive Actions,” American Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 71-86.

6. P. Yu, Y. Shtessel, and C. Edwards, “Continuous Higher Order Sliding Mode Control with Adaptation of Air Breathing Hypersonic Missile,” Int. J. Adapt. Control Signal Process, Vol. 30, Issues 8-10, August-October 2016, pp. 1099-1118.

7. C. Panathula, A. Rosales, Y. Shtessel, and L. Fridman, “Closing Gaps for Aircraft Attitude Higher Order Sliding Mode Control Certification via Practical Stability Margins Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2018.

8. Y. Shtessel, C. Edwards, L. Fridman, and A. Levant, Sliding Mode Control and Observation, Birkhauser, Springer, 2014.

9. J. Stott and Y. Shtessel, “Launch Vehicle Attitude Control Using Sliding Mode Control and Observation Techniques,” The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 349, Issue 2, March 2012, pp. 397-412.

10. J. Orr and Y. Shtessel, “Lunar Spacecraft Powered Descent Control Using Higher-Order Sliding Mode Techniques,” The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 349, Issue 2, March 2012, pp. 476-492.

11. L. Besnard, Y. Shtessel, and B. Landrum, “Quadrotor Vehicle Control via Sliding Mode Controller Driven by Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer,” The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 349, Issue 2, March 2012, pp. 658-684.

12 Y. Shtessel, I. Shkolnikov and A. Levant, “Guidance and Control of Missile Interceptor Using Second Order Sliding Modes,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2009, pp. 110-124. 13. Y. Shtessel and C. Tournes, “Integrated Higher Order Sliding Mode Guidance and Autopilot for Dual Control Missiles,” AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2009, pp. 79-94.

14. Y. Shtessel, I. Shkolnikov and A. Levant, “Smooth Second Order Sliding Modes: Missile Guidance Application,” Automatica, Vol. 43, No.8, 2007, pp. 1470-1476.

15. C. Hall and Y. Shtessel, “Sliding Mode Disturbance Observers-based Control for a Reusable Launch Vehicle,” AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2006, pp. 1315-1329.

16. C. Tournes, Y. Shtessel, and I. Shkolnikov, “Autopilot for Missiles Steered by Aerodynamic Lift and Divert Thrusters Using Nonlinear Dynamic Sliding Manifolds,” AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2006, pp. 617-625.

17. T. Massey and Y. Shtessel, “Continuous Traditional and High Order Sliding Modes for Satellite Formation Control” AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2005, pp.826-831.

18. I. Shkolnikov, Y. Shtessel, and D. Lianos, “The effect of sliding mode observers in the homing guidance loop,” ImechE Journal on Aerospace Engineering, Part G, Vol. 219, No. 2, 2005, pp. 103-111.

19. Y. Shtessel, and I. Shkolnikov, “Aeronautical and Space Vehicle Control in Dynamic Sliding Manifolds,” International Journal of Control, Vol. 76, Issue 9/10, 2003, pp.1000-1017.

20. Y. Shtessel, J. Buffington, and S. Banda, “Tailless Aircraft Flight Control Using Multiple Time Scale Re-Configurable Sliding Modes,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2002, pp. 288-296.

21. M. E. Jackson and Y. B. Shtessel, “Sliding Mode Thermal Control System For Space Station Furnace Facility,” IEEE

22. Y. Shtessel, “Sliding Mode Control of the Space Nuclear Reactor System,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 579-589, 1998.

23. C. Tournes, B. Landrum, Y. Shtessel and C. Hawk, “Ramjet-Powered Reusable Launch Vehicle Control by Sliding Modes,” AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 409-415, 1998.

24. Y. Shtessel, “Decentralized Sliding Mode Control in Three-Axis Inertial Platforms,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 773-781, 1995.

Patent

25. C. Tournes and Y. Shtessel, “System and Method for Guiding and Controlling a Missile Using High Order Sliding Mode Control,” Patent of USA: # 12/501,395, May 7, 2013.

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