Ph. D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1993

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1990

B. Engineering, Electrical Engineering, American University of Beirut, 1985

Lab: Advanced Robotics Laboratory

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1.  Time-Optimal Control", International Journal of Control, Vol. 72, No. 9, 1999, pp. 755-763.  

2. Bikdash, M. "A highly interpretable form of the Sugeno Approximation System,"  IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 7, No. 6, Dec. 1999, pp. 686-696.

3. Bikdash, M., Chen, Da, and Harb, M., "Modeling and Control of the Autofurling Mechanism of Wind Turbines,"  Journal of Vibration and Control,  Vol. 7,  (2001), pp. 127-148.  

4. Bikdash, M., Kunchithapadam, V., Ragunathan, K., and Homaifar, A., “Comparsion of Quasi Bang-Bang and Sliding Mode Controls for a DC Shunt Motor with Time Delay” Nonlinear Dyanmics, Vol. 23, 2001, pp. 87-102.  

5.  Bikdash, M., E.M. Cliff, and A.H. Nayfeh,  "Saturating and Time-Optimal Feedback Controls, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, , Vol. 16, No. 3, May-June 1993, pp. 541-548.

6. Bryson, S., Homaifar, A., Lebby, G. and Bikdash, M., (1997), “Job Scheduling using Genetic Matrix Crossover Operator with 2-Opt Inversion,” Special Issue of International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, April 1997, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 63-76