Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park |

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Eyad H. Abed received the S.B. degree from the Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in 1981 and 1982,
respectively, from the University of California at Berkeley, all in
Electrical
Engineering. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Maryland since 1983, where he is
presently
a Professor and Director of the Institute for Systems Research.
Dr. Abed is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award
from
the National Science Foundation, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper award
from
the American Automatic Control Council, a Senior Fulbright Scholar
Award
from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the
Outstanding
Systems Engineering Faculty Award of the Institute for Systems
Research,
the Alan Berman Research Publication Award from the Naval Research
Laboratory,
and two teaching awards from the University of Maryland. He is also a
Fellow
of the IEEE. He serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of
Nonlinear
Dynamics.
Dr. Abed's research includes contributions on the following
subjects:
control of nonlinear systems exhibiting bifurcation and chaos; singular
perturbation analysis and reduced-order modeling; nonlinear stability
and
stabilization; linear robust stability; gas turbine jet engine dynamics
and control; electric power system dynamics and control; tethered
satellite
control; aircraft control; and radar system dynamics.
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS
- P. Ranjan, E.H. Abed and R.J. La, ``Nonlinear instabilities in
TCP-RED,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 12, No. 6, Dec.
2004,
pp. 1079-1092.
- M.A. Hassouneh, E.H. Abed and H.E. Nusse, ``Robust dangerous
border-collision bifurcations in piecewise smooth systems,'' Physical
Review Letters, Vol. 92, No. 7, 20 Feb. 2004, paper 070201.
- M.A. Hassouneh and E.H. Abed, ``Border collision bifurcation
control of cardiac alternans,'' International Journal of Bifurcation
and Chaos, Vol. 14, No. 9, Sept. 2004, pp. 3303-3315.
- H. Yaghoobi, M.A. Hassouneh and E.H. Abed, ``Detection of
impending
bifurcation
using a near-resonant probe signal,'' Proc. American Control Conference
June 2001, Arlington, VA, pp. 2285-2291.
- C.-C. Fang and E.H. Abed, ``Harmonic balance analysis and control
of
period
doubling bifurcation in buck converters,'' Proc. Internat. Symp.
Circuits
and Systems, Sydney, May 2001, Vol. 3, pp. 209-212 (invited).
- P. Ranjan and E.H. Abed, ``Enhancing detectability of
bifurcations in
DC-DC
converters by stochastic resonance,'' Proc. 39th IEEE Conference on
Decision
and Control, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 12-15, 2000, pp. 1608-1612.
- E.H. Abed, D. Lindsay and W.A. Hashlamoun, ``On participation
factors for
linear systems,'' Automatica, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 1489-1496,
October
2000.
- T. Kim and E.H. Abed, ``Closed-loop monitoring systems for
detecting
impending
instability,'' IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, -- I: Fundamental
Theory
and Applications, Vol. 47, No. 10, pp. 1479-1493, October 2000.
- M.A. Nayfeh and E.H. Abed, ``High-gain feedback control of
rotating
stall
in axial flow compressors,'' Automatica, Vol. 38, No. 6, June 2002, pp.
995-1001.
- T. Kim and E.H. Abed, ``Stationary bifurcation control of systems
with
uncontrollable linearization,'' International Journal of Control, Vol.
74, No. 5, pp. 445-452, 2001.
- C.-C. Fang and E.H. Abed, ``Analysis and control of period
doubling
bifurcation
in buck converters using harmonic balance,'' Latin American Applied
Research:
An International Journal,
Special theme issue: Bifurcation Control: Methodologies and
Applications,
In honor of the 65th Birthday of Professor Leon O. Chua,
Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 149-156, 2001.
- C.-C. Fang and E.H. Abed, ``Robust feedback stabilization of
limit
cycles
in PWM DC-DC converters,'' Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.
295-309, Feb. 2002.
- D.-C. Liaw and E.H. Abed, ``Active control of compressor stall
inception:
A bifurcation-theoretic approach,'' Automatica, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp.
109-115,
January 1996.
- R.A. Adomaitis and E.H. Abed, "Local nonlinear control of stall
inception
in axial flow compressors," Proceedings of the 29th
AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE
Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Monterey, CA, June 28-30,
1993 (AIAA Paper 93-2230).
- E.H. Abed, P.K. Houpt and W.M. Hosny, "Bifurcation analysis of
surge
and
rotating stall in axial flow compressors," ASME Journal of
Turbomachinery,
vol. 115, pp. 817-824, 1993.
- E.H. Abed, H.O. Wang, and R.C. Chen, "Stabilization of period
doubling
bifurcations and implications for control of chaos," Physica D,
vol. 70, pp. 154-164, 1994.
- J.-H. Fu and E.H. Abed, "Families of Lyapunov functions for
nonlinear
systems
in critical cases," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 38,
(1),
Jan. 1993, pp. 3-16.
- H. Wang and E.H. Abed, "Bifurcation control of chaotic dynamical
systems," Proceedings
of NOLCOS'92: Nonlinear Control System Design Symposium, M.
Fliess,
Ed., June 1992.
- H.O. Wang, E.H. Abed and A.M.A. Hamdan, "Bifurcations, chaos and
crises
in voltage collapse of a model power system," IEEE Transactions on
Circuits
and Systems---I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, vol. 41, pp.
294-302, 1994.
- H.O. Wang and E.H. Abed, "Control of nonlinear phenomena at the
inception
of voltage collapse," Proceedings of the 1993 American
Control Conference, pp. 2071-2075, San Francisco, CA, June 2-4,
1993.
- A. Tesi, E.H. Abed, R. Genesio and H.O. Wang, ``Harmonic balance
analysis
of period doubling bifurcations with implications for control of
nonlinear
dynamics,'' Automatica, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1255-1271, September 1996.
- R.E. Gover, E.H. Abed and A.J. Goldberg, "Stochastic stability
analysis
of nonlinear gated radar range trackers," in Stochastic Theory and
Adaptive
Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series, 184,
T.E. Duncan and B. Pasik-Duncan, Eds., pp. 225-239, Berlin:
Springer-Verlag,
1992.
Abstracts of some of his/her publications can be accessed
here from the ISR Technical
Reports Archive