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Dr. Frank L. Lewis, P.E., Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC,
Fellow InstMC,
U.K. Chartered Engineer
Office Tel. No.: (817) 272-5972
Fax: (817) 272-5989
Lab Tel. No. : (817) 272-5955
E-Mail Address:
lewis@uta.edu
Webpage:
http://arri.uta.edu/acs/
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University Distinguished Scholar Professor
Moncrief-O'Donnell Chair
Institute Senior Research Fellow,
Automation & Robotics Research Institute
Ph.D. Elect. Eng. Georgia Tech. 1981
M.S. Aero. Eng. Univ. West Fla. 1977
M.E.E. Rice University 1971
B.A. Physics & EE Rice University 1971 |
Areas of Expertise
Feedback control systems, intelligent control, neural
networks for control, discrete event systems, wireless
sensor networks, robotics, nonlinear process control,
adaptive systems, optimal and robust control.
Background
Dr. Lewis is a registered Professional Engineer in the State
of Texas and a Chartered Engineer with the U.K. Engineering
Council. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC, and
a Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Measurement & Control. He
spent six years in the U.S. Navy, serving as Navigator
aboard the frigate USS Trippe (FF-1075), and Executive
Officer and Acting Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan
(ATF-161). He is/has been on the Editorial Boards of
numerous international journals and served as Editor for
Automatica. He is the Editor of the Taylor & Francis book
series in Automation & Control Engineering. He is listed in
"Who's Who in the World", "Who's Who in Science and
Technology", etc. Dr. Lewis is the recipient of a Fulbright
Research Award, the Int. Neural Network Society Gabor Award,
the American Society of Engineering Education F.E. Terman
Award, and numerous other research awards. He received the
IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter Award (as Founding
Chairman). He received the IEEE Dallas Section "Outstanding
Service Award" in 1994, and was selected as Engineer of the
Year in 1995 by the Ft. Worth IEEE Section. He is an Adjunct
Professor at The Georgia Institute of Technology and has
served on NASA Committee on the Space Station.
Since 1982, Dr. Lewis has received as PI/co-PI 18 NSF
grants, including the NSF Research Initiation Grant in 1982.
He has received total funding in excess of $7M and industry
funding in excess of $900K, including 8 DoD SBIR contracts.
Dr. Lewis has graduated 35 PhD students, including 3 NSF
Career Awardees. He is the author or co-author of 5 U.S.
patents, 199 journal papers, 315 referred published
conference papers, 36 book chapters, and 14 books
including Optimal
Control, Optimal Estimation, Applied Optimal Control and
Estimation, Aircraft Control and Simulation, Control of
Robot Manipulators, Neural Network Control,
High-Level Feedback Control with Neural Networks and the
IEEE reprint volume Robot Control.
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
Systems and Controls Thrust Area
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