P. S. KRISHNAPRASAD (krishna@isr.umd.edu)

Dr. Krishnaprasad received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1977. He was on the faculty of the Systems Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University from 1977 to 1980. He has been with the University of Maryland since August 1980. At Maryland he is also a member of the Faculty of the Applied Mathematics Program. He has held visiting positions with Erasmus University (Rotterdam); with the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Groningen (The Netherlands); and with Cornell University. Dr. Krishnaprasad has participated in consulting activities with the Army Night Vision and Electro Optics Laboratory at Ft. Belvoir.

Dr. Krishnaprasad was on the Editorial Board of Systems and Control Letters. He is a reviewer for IEEE, the National Science Foundation, SIAM journals and others. His professional society memberships include the AIAA and the AMS. He is an Elected Fellow of the IEEE.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Krishnaprasad's research interests lie in the broad area of geometric control theory and its applications. He has contributed to the understanding of parametrization problems in linear systems, the Lie algebraic foundations of certain nonlinear filtering problems pertaining to system identification, the Lie theory and stability of interconnected mechanical systems and symmetry principles in nonlinear control theory. Dr. Krishnaprasad's research interests also include mathematical problems in the kinematics and control of robot manipulators, tactile perception, and the development of tools for design automation in robotics. He is the Director of the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory at Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park.

PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH

1. Y.C. Pati, P.S. Krishnaprasad and M. Peckerar, "An Analog Neural Network Solution to the Inverse Problem of `Early Taction,'" IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, 8, (2), 1992, pp 196-212.

2. Y.C. Pati and P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Analysis and Synthesis of Feedforward Neural Networks Using Discrete Affine Wavelet Transformations," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 4, (1), 1993, , pp 73-85.

3. R. Shahidi, M. Shayman and P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Mobile Robot Navigation using Potential Functions," Proc. 1991 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, New York, pp. 2047-2053.

4. L-S. Wang and P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Gyroscopic Control and Stabilization," J. Nonlinear Science, 1992, 2, pp 367-415.

5. N. E. Leonard and P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Averaging and Motion Control on Lie Groups," Institute for Systems Research Technical Report, TR 93-59, 47 pages.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH

1. J.C. Simo, J.E. Marsden and P.S. Krishnaprasad, "The Hamiltonian Structure of Nonlinear Elasticity: The Convective Representation of Solids, Rods, and Plates," Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis,, 104, (2), 1988, pp.125-183.

2. Y.G. Oh, N. Sreenath, P.S. Krishnaprasad and J.E. Marsden, "The Dynamics of Coupled Planar Rigid Bodies Part II: Bifurcations, Periodic Solutions, and Chaos," Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 1, (3), 1989, pp. 269-298.

3. P.S. Krishnaprasad, "Geometric Phases and Optimal Reconfiguration for Multibody Systems," invited paper, in Proc. 1990 American Control Conference, American Automatic Control Council, Philadelphia, pp. 2440-2444.

4. P.S.Krishnaprasad and R. Yang, "Geometric Phases, Anholonomy and Optimal Movement," Proc. 1991 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE New York, pp 2185-2189.

5. P.S. Krishnaprasad, R. Yang and W.P. Dayawansa, "Control Problems on Principal Bundles and Nonholonomic Mechanics," invited paper, in Proc. 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, New York, pp 1133-11.