Advanced Controls
The Advanced Controls focuses on developing cutting-edge techniques and algorithms to enhance the performance, efficiency, and reliability of complex systems. This field integrates principles from control theory, optimization, machine learning, and systems engineering to address challenges in various domains, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, manufacturing processes, and biomedical devices.
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Interested in discussing the research we are working on or learning more? Please contact:
Dr. Levent Acar
Associate Professor
220 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
Intelligent control of functional systems; neural networks applied to control; hierarchical design and control of large-scale systems; optimal and suboptimal control for interconnected systems; distributed computational methods of optimal control strategies.
Dr. Kelvin Erickson
Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EE Undergraduate Coordinator
221 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
Control Systems, Factory Automation, Programmable Logic Controllers, Advanced Process Control
Dr. Jag Sarangapani
Curators’ Distinguished Professor and William A. Rutledge - Emerson Electric Co. Chair
573-341-6775 | sarangap@mst.edu |
222 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
Learning, adaptation and control, neural networks, secure cyber-physical-human systems, big data prognostics, robotics/autonomous systems.
Dr. Pourya Shamsi
Associate Professor
573-341-7696 | shamsip@mst.edu |
232 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
Power electronics, motor drives, control, micro grid, renewable energy, energy management, battery chargers, grid interfaces, medium voltage
Dr. Donald Wunsch II
Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor. Director, Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Director, Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory
573-341-4950 | dwunsch@mst.edu |
129 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
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