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 Journal Papers (up to 2001)

  1. Bikdash, M., "Boundedness Properties of the Soft-Constrained 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., B. Balachandran, A. H. Nayfeh, "Melnikov Analysis for a ship with a General Roll-Damping Model,"  Nonlinear Dynamics,  Vol. 6, 1994, pp. 101-124.

  4. 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. 

  5. 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. 

  6. Bikdash, M., Sartor, K., and Homaifar, A., “Fuzzy Guidance of the Shuttle Orbiter During Atmospheric Reentry,”  IFAC Journal on Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 7,  pp. 295-303. 

  7. 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.

  8. Bikdash, M., E.M. Cliff, and A.H. Nayfeh,   "Open- and Closed-Loop Soft-Constrained Time-Optimal Control of Higher-order Linear Systems,'  Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 15, No., 1992,  pp. 96-103.

  9. Bikdash, M., A.H. Nayfeh,  and E.M. Cliff, "Singular Perturbation of the Time-Optimal  Soft-Constrained Cheap-Control Problem,  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,  Vol. AC-38, No. 3, March 1993,  pp. 466-469.

  10. Bikdash, M., and K.-B. Yu, "Analysis and Filtering Using the Optimally Smoothed Wigner Distribution Function,"  IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,  Vol. ASSP-41, No. 4, April 1993.

  11. 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.

  12. Dozier, G., Homaifar, A., Bryson S. and Bikdash, (1998) "Artificial Potential Field Based Motion Planning/Navigation, Dynamic Constrained Optimization, and Simple Genetic Hill-Climbing ", in press,  Journal of  Simulation.

  13. Homaifar, A, Bikdash. M., and Gopalan, V.J., “Design using genetic algorithms of hierarchical hybrid fuzzy-PID controllers of two-link robotic arms”, Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 14, No. 6, June 1997,  pp. 449-463.

  14. A. Homaifar, M. Bikdash, and C. Clifton, “Feedback implementation of optimal control laws", in press, Special Issue on Formal Methods for Fuzzy Modeling and Control, Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, August 2001.  

  15. Homaifar, A., Sayyarodsarri, B., Nagle, J., and M. Bikdash, (1997), “Hierarchical Learning-Based Design of a Hybrid Fuzzy PID Controller”, Special Issue of International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, April 1997, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 23-36.

 Conference Proceedings

  1. Bikdash, M., and Singh, H., “Cost Modeling for adjustable speed drives for HVAC systems,” Power Electronics Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia,  September 18-21, 2000. 

  2. Bikdash, M., “The soft-constrained time-optimal control of linear systems and its boundedness”, 1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego, CA., pp. 2991-2995.

  3. Bikdash, M., “Interpretation of Sugeno coefficients”, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE), Nov. 7-10, Rolla, Mo, 1999.

  4. Bikdash, M., E.M. Cliff, and A.H. Nayfeh,  "Statistical and Theoretical Analysis of the Time-Optimal Control of Stable Plants", First IEEE Conference on Control Applications,  Dayton, Ohio, September 1992.

  5. Bikdash, M., E.M. Cliff, and A. H. Nayfeh, "Nonlinear Behavior of Time-Optimal Soft-Constrained Control of Linear Systems," Third Conference of Nonlinear Vibrations, Stability and Dynamics of Structures and Mechanisms,  June 25-27, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1990.

  6. Bikdash, M. and Layton, R., “An energy-based Lyapunov functions for Physical Systems” IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, March 16-18, 2000, Princeton University;  NJ;  Editors: N.E. Leonard and R. Ortega, pp. 86-91.

  7. Bikdash, M. and Layton, R., “Lagrangian DAEs: A starting point for Applications is Control,” IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, March 16-18, 2000, Princeton University;  NJ;  Editors: N.E. Leonard and R. Ortega, pp. 173-174. 

  8. Bikdash, M. and Layton, R., “Towards an Energy-Based Linear Analysis of Nonholonomic Systems”, The 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE), Nashville, Tennessee, Nov. 14-19, 1999,  Session DSC-9. 

  9. Bikdash, M., Walden, M., and Branch, E.,  “Multi-valuedness destroys data contiguity for inverse-learning control”,  1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego, CA, pp. 2330-2334.

  10. Bikdash, M., Homaifar, A., and Sartor, K., "Shuttle Reentry Guidance Using Sugeno Approximation, " IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC ’97, Orlando, Florida, October 12-15, 1997, pp. 1011-1016.

  11. Bikdash, M., A.H. Nayfeh, and L. Mili, "Efficient Computation of Stability Boundary for a Single Machine Connected to a Quasi-Infinite Busbar", Proceedings  of the 56 American Power Conference, Chicago, April 25-27, 1994.

  12. Bikdash, M., J.L. Speyer,  and E.M. Cliff,  "An algorithm for Space-Based Tracking with Bearings-only Measurements,"  Proceedings of the AIAA Conference on Tracking, Guidance, and Navigation,   Baltimore, Maryland, August 1995, pp. 656-669. 

  13. Bikdash, M., E.M. Cliff, and A.H. Nayfeh, "Saturating Control Laws for Infinite Dimensional Linear Plants," Proceedings of the 31rst Conference on Decision and Control, , Tucson, AZ,  15-17  December 1992.

  14. Bikdash, M., E. M. Cliff, and A. H. Nayfeh, "Saturating and Time-Optimal Feedback Control," Proceedings of the 8th VPI&SU Synposium on the Dynamics and Control of Large Structures, Ed. L. Meirovitch, May 6-8, Blacksburg VA,  pp. 581-592.

  15. Bikdash, M., Walden, M., and Branch, E.,  “Multi-valuedness destroys data contiguity for inverse-learning control”,  1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego, CA, pp. 2330-2334. 

  16. Bikdash, M., and K.-B. Yu, "Linear Shift-Varying Filtering of Nonstationary Chirp Signals,"  20th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, , Charlotte, March 20-22, 1988.

  17. Bikdash, M., and K.-B. Yu, "Design and Implementation of Time-Varying Filters Using the Generalized Transfer Function," 30th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Syracuse University, August 17-18, 1987.

  18. D. Chen, M. Bikdash, and M. Harb,  “Modeling of the Autofurling  Mechanism of Small Wind Turbines,'' Joint 18th ASME Wind Energy Symposium/37th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 11-14, 1999, Reno, Nevada. paper AIAA 99-0051

  19. Clifton, C., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Feedback Implementation of Zermelo’s Optimal Control by Sugeno Approximation", Proceedings of the NASA University Research Centers, Technical Advances in Education, Aeronautics, Space, Autonomy, Earth and Environment, Editors: M. Jamshidi, R. Lumia, E. Tunstle, Jr., B. White, J. Malone, and P. Sakimoto, NASA ACE Center Series, Feb. 16-19, 1997,  Winner of Best Paper Award, Vol. 1, pp.169-174.

  20. Clifton, C., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Design of Generalized Sugeno Controllers by Approximating Hybrid Fuzzy-PID Controllers," Proceedings of the Fifth  the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 3, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8-11, 1996, pp.1906-1911.

  21. Clifton, C., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Approximating Hybrid-Fuzzy PID Controllers by Sugeno Controllers, " Proceedings of the First National Student's Conference, The National Alliance of NASA University Research  Centers at Minority Institutions, Editors: Daso, E.O., and Mebanee S., TRI Press, March 31-April 2, 1996, pp. 366-369.

  22. Dozier, G., V., Bryson, S., Homaifar, A., Brown, E., Esterline,  A., Bikdash, M., and Moore, L., “Robot navigation and stereo head control using microgenetic hill-climbing”, Proceeding of the World Automation Congress, Soft Computing with Industrial Applications. Editors: M. Jamshidi, M. Fathi, Z. Bien and M. Kamel, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998, pp. 28.1-28.6.

  23. Dozier, G., Esterline, A., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M. (1997). "Hybrid Evolutionary Motion Planning via Visibility-Based Repair", The Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'97), Indianapolis, Indiana, April 13-16, pp. 507-511.

  24. Dozier, G.V., Esterline, A., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Hybrid Evolutionary Path Planning via Visibility-Based Repair", The proceedings of the 35th Annual Southeast Conference, April 2-4, 1997, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, pp. 28-35.

  25. Dozier, G., McCullough, S., Brown, E., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Hybrid Co-Evolutionary Motion Planning via Visibility-Based Repair", Proceedings of the NASA University Research Centers, Technical Advances in Education, Aeronautics, Space, Autonomy, Earth and Environment, Editors: M. Jamshidi, R. Lumia, E. Tunstle, Jr., B. White, J. Malone, and P. Sakimoto, NASA ACE Center Series, 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 219-224.

  26. Hajj, M., Tielman, H, and Bikdash, M., “Characterization of Turbulent Scales in Atmospheric Wind by Orthonormal Wavelets,”  11th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 19-22, 1996.

  27. Harb, M. and Bikdash, M., “A fuzzy model of wind turbine aerodynamics learned from Yawdyn data”, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE), Nov. 7-10, Rolla, Mo, 1999.

  28. Harb, M., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A., “Generating contiguous training data for inverse-learning control”, submitted to the American Control Conference, 1999.

  29. Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., Clifton, C.,  "Approximating an Optimal Control Law by a Generalized Sugeno Controller," Vol. 3, Seventh World Congress IFSA’97 Congress, Prague, the Czeck Republic, June 25-29, 1997, pp. 318-323.

  30. Homaifar, A., Baghdadchi, J., Nagle, J., and Bikdash, M., “VSTOL Aircraft Longitudinal Control Using Fuzzy Logic,” the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 11-14, 1998, pp. 3161-3166. 

  31. Homaifar, A., Clifton, C., and Bikdash, M., “Design of Generalized Sugeno Controllers by Approximating Hybrid Fuzzy-PID Controllers,” the FUZZ-IEEE ‘96 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8-11, 1996.

  32. Homaifar, A., Gopalan, V.J., and Bikdash. M.,  "Design of Hybrid Fuzzy PID Controller using Genetic Algorithm," Proceedings of the World Automation Congress, Soft Computing with Industrial Applications, Recent Trends in Research and Development, Editors: M. Jamshidi, M. Fathi, and F. Pierrot, TSI Press Series, vol.5, Montpellier, France, May 28-30, 1996, pp. 325-330.

  33. Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., and Dozier, G., “Genetic algorithms solution for unconstrained optimal crane control,” 1999 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Washington DC, July 6-9, 1999.

  34. Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., and Wen, B., “Pendulation suppression of a shipboard crane using fuzzy controller,” 1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego, CA, pp. 586-590. 

  35. Kimiaghalam, B. Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., "Crane Control Using Fuzzy Controller," Second International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI’98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 10-14, 1998, pp. 59.1-59.6.

  36. Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., “Hybird Fuzzy-PD Control for a Dock Mounted Pantry Crane”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. II, pp. 247-251.

  37. Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., “Using Genetic Algorithms for Optimal Crane Control”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. III, pp. 600-605.

  38. Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., “Pendulation Suppression of a Shipboard Crane Using Fuzzy Controllers”, the American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego,  CA,  pp. 586-590. 

  39. Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A. “Quasi bang-bang and sliding-mode controls for a DC shunt motor”, 1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego, pp. 1047-1051.

  40. Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M. and Homaifar, A., "Design of fuzzy logic controller for DC shunt motor, " Second International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI’98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 10-14, 1998.

  41. Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., Homaifar, A., “Hybird Fuzzy PID Controller Design for PEBB Controlled DC Motor with Optimized Coefficients”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. III, pp. 739-744.

  42. Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M. and Homaifar, A., "Design of fuzzy logic controller for DC shunt motor, " Second International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI’98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 10-14, 1998, pp. 1047-1051.

  43. Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A. “Quasi bang-bang and sliding-mode controls for a DC shunt motor”, 1999 American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego.

  44. Layton, R. and Bikdash, M., “A modal analysis comparison of Lagrangian descriptor models,” 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, June 2000, ,  pp. 1395-1999.

  45. Marsh, R., Bikdash, M., Homaifar, A., “Advancements on the Control of the Longitudinal Motion of the Space Shuttle During Re-Entry”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. III, pp. 463-467.

  46. Nagle, J., Homaifar, A., Abdelnaser, A., and Bikdash, M., "Modeling and Control of a Thin Plate," Proceedings of the First National Student's Conference, The National Alliance of NASA University Research Centers at Minority Institutions, Editors: Daso, E.O., and Mebanee S., TRI Press, March 31-April 2, 1996, pp. 362-365.

  47. Shen, Y., Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., Naser, A., “Real-Time Active Vibration Control Using Peizoelectric Actuators in Plate Structures”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. II, pp. 342-347.

  48. Shen, Y., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M., and Chen, D., “Genetic Algorithms and fuzzy-based vibration control of plate using PZT actuators”, submitted to the American Control Conference, 1999.

  49. Walden, M., Bikdash, M., Homaifar, A., “Approximation of Multi-Valued Inverse Functions Using Clustering and Sugeno Fuzzy Inference”, Proceedings of the NASA URC Technical Conference (URC-TC’98), Editors: Tommy L. Coleman, Bettie White and Steven Goodman, TSI Press, Huntsville, Alabama, February 22-25, 1998, Vol. II, pp. 370-375.

  50. Walden, M., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A., “Use of Sugeno Approximators as Online Functions Inverters, Second International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry (ISSCI’98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 10-14, 1998, pp. 107.1-107.6.

  51. Wen, B., Homaifar, A., Bikdash, M., and Kimiaghalam, B., “Modeling and Optimal Control of Shipboard Crane,” the American Control Conference, June 2-4, 1999, San Diego CA,  pp. 593-597.

Additional and Invited Presentations

 

1.        M. Bikdash, “Modeling and Control in the LDAE Framework,” Naval UnderWater Center (NUWC), Newport, Rhode Island, January 21, 2001. 

2.        M. Bikdash, V. Kunchithapadam, K. Ragunathan, and A.  Homaifar, “Effect of Power Electronics Time-Delay on Motor Speed Control,” Fifth Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI - Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, March 15-16, 1998.

3.        M. Bikdash, K. Ragunathan, V. Kunchithapadam, and A.  Homaifar, “Nonlinear Control of Motors,” Fourth Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI - Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, October 15-16, 1998.

4.        Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M.,  “Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Crane Dynamics”,  First Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI-Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems,  Feb. 13-14, 1997.

5.        Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A., “Design of a DC motor Controller using Genetic Algorithms”,  First Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI-Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems,  Feb. 13-14, 1997.

6.        Bikdash, M. “Hybrid Fuzzy-Crisp Modeling and Control”, Proceedings of the Kickoff Meeting of the MURI Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, August 26, 1996.

7.        Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M.,  “Modeling and control of nonlinear crane dynamics”,  First Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI-Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems,  Feb. 13-14, 1997.

8.        Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A., “Design of a DC motor controller using genetic algorithms”,  First Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI-Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems,  Feb. 13-14, 1997.

9.        Bikdash, M., "Fuzzy control of an axisymmetric jet inlet,"  The Boeing Corporation,  Seattle, WA,  August 22, 1997.

10.    Bikdash, M. and Walden, M., "Design of Feedback Control for Nonlinear Systems through Inverse Learning", Third Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI - Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, April 13-14, 1998.

11.    Kimiaghalam, B., Homaifar, A., and Bikdash, M.,  “Optimal Control for a Pantry Crane Two-point Boundary Value Problem by Genetic Algorithm”, Third Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI - Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, April 13-14, 1998.

12.    Kunchithapadam, V., Bikdash, M., and Homaifar, A., "Hybrid Fuzzy-Linear Controller for a DC Motor with Optimized Coefficients," Third Semi-Annual Meeting, MURI - Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, April 13-14, 1998.

13.    Bikdash, M. “Hybrid Fuzzy-Crisp Modeling and Control”, Proceedings of the Kickoff Meeting of the MURI Nonlinear Active Control of Dynamical Systems, August 26, 1996.

14.    Bikdash, M., “Structural Similarity between Democracy and Science”,  Seminar given  as part of the Technology and Culture Forum, North Carolina A&T State University, given on Feb. 23, 1996.