Selected Publications (Full  text - pdf)

 Curriculum Vitae (Printable  Version - pdf)  

 Aerospace Engineering  Graduate Program

 Engine Control Research  Laboratory

 Dynamic Systems Control  Laboratory

Dept. of Mech. Engineering

N207 Engineering Building 1

University of Houston

Houston, TX 77204-4006

Tel : 713-743-4387

Fax: 713-743-4503

Email: karolos@uh.edu

PRESENTATIONS - Invited Lectures

• From Covariance Control to Integrated Systems Design, Workshop in Honor of Prof.R.E. Skelton, UCSD, Nov. 2008.
  

• Adaptive Methods for Microgravity Isolation in Space, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Mechanical Engineering March 2008
  
• Invited Plenary Speaker, 6th International Congress of Mechatronics Engineering, Monterrey, Mexico, March 2008.
  
• Invited Speaker, 5th International Congress of Mechatronics Engineering, Monterrey, Mexico, March 2007.
  
• Adaptive Gain Scheduling Control Methods for Internal Combustion Engines, General Motors, October 2006.
  
• Invited Speaker, Workshop on New Directions for the Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, Agia Napa, Cyprus, June 2005.
  
• Linear Parameter Varying Control of Complex Systems, Workshop on New Directions for the Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, Agia Napa, Cyprus, Jun. 2005.
  
• Control of Time-delayed and Input-Constrained Systems Using Parameter-Varying Adaptive Control,” National Technical University of Cyprus, June 2005.
  
• Linear Parameter-Varying Control with Application to Engine Control Problems, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Seminar, April 2005.
  
• Linear Parameter-Varying Lean Burn Air-Fuel Ratio Control, Ford Motor Company, Apr.. 2005.
  
• Multiobjective Gain Scheduled Control with Application to Engines, Ford Motor Company, October 2004.
  
• Linear Parameter Varying Control of Complex Systems and Applications to Engine Control Problems, Ford Motor Company, Feb. 2004
  
• Linear Parameter Varying Control of Complex Systems and Applications to Engine Control Problems, Cummins Engine Company, July 2004.
  
• Parameter Varying Control for Active Microgravity Isolation, AIAA-Houston Lunch and Learn Seminar Series, Houston, Texas, September 2003.
  
• Engine Control Using Parameter Dependent Methods, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 2001.
  
• Control of Parameter Dependent Sampled Data Systems, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2001.
  
• Optimization-Based Methods for Engine Control, Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana, February 2001.
  
• Linear Matrix Inequality Optimization with Rank Constraints for Fixed-Structure Control, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, May 2000.
  
• Parameter Varying Control and Its Applications to Engine Control, Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana, February 1999
  
• Integration of Research and Education in Control Systems, NSF Workshop on the Integration of Engineering Research and Education, Arlington, Virginia, April, 1999.
  
• Control of Time Delayed Systems Using Linear Matrix Inequalities, International Summer School on LMI Methods in Identification, Optimization and Control, University of Compiegne, Compiegne, France, May 1999.
  
• Fixed-Order Control Design using Projection Methods, International Summer School on LMI Methods in Identification, Optimization and Control, University of Compiegne, Compiegne, France, May 1999.
  
• International Summer School on LMI Methods in Identification, Optimization and Control, University of Compiegne, Compiegne, France, May 1999.
  
• Control of Constrained Systems Using Linear Matrix Inequalities, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1999.
  
• Control of Constrained Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, November 1999
  
• Control of Time-Delayed and Input Constrained Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, April 1998.
  
• Alternating Projection Algorithms and Linear Matrix Inequalities n Control Systems Analysis and Design, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 1998.
  
• Multiobjective and Integrated Control via Linear Matrix Inequalities, Department of Automation, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, May 1997.
  
• Alternating Projection Algorithms and Linear Matrix Inequalities for Multiobjective Control, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 1997.
  
• Alternating Projection Algorithms and Linear Matrix Inequalities for Multiobjective Control Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 1996.
  
• Control Design via Alternating Projections, Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, California, February 1996.
  
• Techniques for Multiobjective and Integrated Control Systems Design, Graduate Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, October 1994.
  
• Integrated Structural and Control Design by Iterative Redesign, Guidance, Navigation and Flight Control Lunch and Learn Meeting, NASA JSC, Houston, Texas, October 1994.
  
  

 Loughborough University -  Visiting Professorship

 IASTED Intelligent Control  Systems Conference 2008 -  Conference Chair