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Brian Driessen

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount St
Wichita KS 67260-0133

Phone: 316-978-5475
Fax: 316-978-3236

Campus Address: EB 101Q
Mailbox: 133
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Research groups : Mechanical Systems and Robotics/Control

Education

  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering; Georgia Institute of Technology; 1996
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering; Georgia Institute of Technology; 1993
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering; Louisiana Tech University; 1991

Brief biography

Brian Driessen is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Wichita State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in 1991 from Louisiana Tech University, both in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include adaptive controls, robust controls, iterative learning control, observer/controllers for nonlinear plants, optimal controls, and optimal trajectory generation. Application areas of interest include non-mobile/mobile robotic systems.

Technical interests

Dynamics, controls, modeling, optimization, and scalability and robustness aspects of controls implementation (embedding) in distributed (and mobile) systems.

Selected publications

  1. Driessen, B.J., “Observer/Controller with Global Practical Stability for Tracking in Robots Without Velocity Measurement,” accepted to Asian Journal of Control.
  2. Malagari, S. and Driessen, B.J., “Globally Exponential Controller/Observer for Tracking in Robots with DC Motor Dynamics and Only Link Position Measurement,” International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2013, Vol, 19, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
  3. Malagari, S. and Driessen, B.J., “Globally Asymptotic Adaptive Observer/Controller for Tracking in Robots Without Velocity Measurement,” International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2012, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 400-418.
  4. Malagari, S. and Driessen, B.J., “Globally Exponential Controller/Observer for Tracking in Robots Without Velocity Measurement,” Asian Journal of Control, 2012, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 309-319.
  5. Malagari, S. and Driessen, B.J., “Semi Globally Exponential Tracking Observer/Controller for Robots with Joint Hysteresis and Without Velocity Measurement,” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2011, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 29-58.

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