William S. Levine
Professor, Control Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Institute for Systems Research
Office 2369 AV Williams Building
Mailing address
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2369 AV Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone 301-405-3654
Fax 301-314-9281
E-mail wsl@eng.umd.edu
Books
Professor Levine is the series editor of Birkhauser's Control Engineering Series books.
The latest book in the series is the Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems, (2005) edited by Professor Levine and former ISR faculty member Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis, now of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
The Control Handbook is edited by Dr. Levine.
CRC Press has repackaged parts of this publication into two new books.
Biography
Dr. Levine is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He specializes in systems, control and estimation. He is engaged in research on control systems design (including specific applications to autonomous vehicles and to control over networks), and on the analysis and synthesis of biomechanical controls, and signal processing of biomechanical signals, with specific application to the biomechanics of the human tongue.
Dr. Levine received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Optimal Output Feedback Controllers for Linear Systems." He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and a recipient of the IEEE's 3rd Millenium Medal. He is a past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
He has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, an editor of Automatica for Rapid Publications, program and, later, general chairman of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), and a member of the board of governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is currently vice president of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC).
Dr. Levine has over 100 publications dealing with control and estimation theory and their application to practical problems. He is the co-author of the book Using MATLAB to Analyze and Design Control Systems published by Benjamin/Cummings. He is the editor of The Control Handbook published by CRC Press. He is also the editor of a series of books on control engineering for Birkhauser.
One of his papers, "Discrete Time Point Processes in Urban Traffic Queue Estimation" (co-authored with J.S. Baras and T.S. Lin) received a biannual award as the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Research interests
Professor Levine's research interests are in the areas of application of modern control theory to the study of the nervous system's control of movement and; control theory and its applications with emphasis on computer aided control system design; application of computers and computation to network control; and applications of modern control and estimation theory to biomedical and aerospace problems.
Laboratories
Undergraduate Controls Laboratory
Significant research
1. W.S. Levine, Q.F. Wei, and W.P. Dayawansa, "Nonlinear controller for an inverted pendulum having restricted travel," Automatica, to appear 1995.
2. W.S. Levine, F.E. Zajac, and R.W. Wicke, "Dependence of Jumping Performance on Muscle Properties When Humans Use Only Calf Muscles for Propulsion," J. Biomechanics, vol. 17, pp. 513-523, 1984.
3. W.S. Levine, F.E. Zajac, M.R. Belzer, and M.R. Zomlefer, "Ankle Controls that Produce a Maximal Vertical Jump When Other Joints are Locked," IEEE Trans. on AC, AC-28, (11), 1983, pp. 1008-1016.
4. W.S. Levine, M. Christodoulou, and F.E. Zajac, "On Propelling a Baton to a Maximum Vertical or Horizontal Distance," Automatica, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 321-324, 1983.
5. W.S. Levine, J.S. Baras, and T.L. Lin, "Discrete Time Point Processes in Urban Traffic Queue Estimation," IEEE Trans. on AC, vol. AC-24, no. 1, pp. 12-27 (1979).
Technical Reports
Abstracts of some of Dr. Levine's publications can be accessed here from the ISR Technical Reports Archive