Projects
Current Projects:
- A modular architecture for simulation, analysis and control of wheeled vehicles under extreme conditions, project funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) through the SAVE (Synthetic Automotive Virtual Environments) research program (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 2008-present).
- Next generation active safety control systems for crash-avoidance of passenger vehicles using expert driver knowledge, project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through the GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison
with Industry) research program (Co-PI at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2008-present).
- Control and recovery of vehicles during high-speed and other abnormal conditions, project funded by the Ford Motor Company under the URP (University Research Program) research program (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2008-February 2009).
- Reachability analysis of real-time hybrid-dynamical simulations for civil structures under seismic excitation, project funded by the G. E. Brown Jr. NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) through the US National Science Foundation (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, California, January 2007-March 2008).
- On-board lead-acid battery prognosis design for hybrid-electric vehicles, project funded by General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan (Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April-December 2006).
- Integrated hieararchical model-based fault detection and isolation for an Electric Power Generation and Storage system, project funded by General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan (Co-PI at the Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, The Ohio State Univerity, Columbus, Ohio, April-December 2006).
- Fault diagnosis design for an automotive electrical system, project funded by General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan (Co-PI at the Center for Automotive Research and Intelligent Transportation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 2005-March 2006).
- Software control design for the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) of the diesel “Multijet 1.3” engine, project funded by FIAT-GM Powertrain, Torino, Italy and Opel, Germany (Magneti-Marelli Powertrain, Bologna, Italy, October 2002-April 2004).
- Digital control design of a Valve Control Unit (VCU) for gasoline camless engines, project funded by Daimler-Chrilsler, Stuttgart, Germany (Magneti-Marelli Powertrain, Bologna, November 2000-September 2002).