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Courses Taught or Developed:
University of Central Florida: · EGN1006 Introduction to Engineering Profession Course Description: Overview of academic and professional requirements in various engineering disciplines. Course materials: ppt on EE program and demos (on robotics & DSP). · EGN1932 Introduction to Engineering Course materials: instructors' materials, lab setups, and students' kits.
· EGN3373 Principles of Electrical Engineering Course Description: Fundamentals of electrical circuits and analysis; fundamentals of electronics and AC power systems, transformers, electromechanics and rotating machines. Textbook: Introduction to Electrical Engineering by Paul, Nasar
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EEL3657 Linear Control Systems Course Description: Control theory, transfer function modeling, Nyquist criteria, root locus, Bode plots, and Design of lead and lag compensation. Textbook: Feedback Control Systems by C.L.Phillips and R.D.Harbor
· EEL4612 Introduction to Modern and Robust Control (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Introduction to modern control theory; emphasis on state space method and robustness concepts of SISO systems. Stability concepts in state space model, pole placement feedback control and observer design, analysis of signals and systems, robustness measures, control design based on performance optimization. Textbook: Feedback Control Theory by J.C.Doyle, B.Francis, and A.Tannenbaum
· EEL4664 Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Robotic Systems (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Introduction to robotics, with emphasis on trajectory planning, control, formation, and cooperation algorithms of robotic vehicles. Kinematics, dynamics, vehicle dynamics, state space stability concepts and control design methods, trajectory planning, regulation and tracking, formation, cooperative rules and behaviors. Textbook: Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems: Applications to Autonomous Vehicles by Z. Qu · EEL5173 Linear Systems Theory (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Models and properties of linear systems, transformation, controllability and observability, control and observer designs, MFD, and realization theory Textbook: Linear Systems by T.Kailath · EEL5255 Power Systems Analysis and Electrical Machinery Textbook: Elements of Power System Analysis by W.D.Stevenson, Jr. · EEL5630 Digital Control Systems Course Description: Real-time digital control system analysis and design, Z-transforms, sampling and reconstruction, time and frequency response, stability analysis, digital controller design. Textbook: Digital Control Systems: Analysis and Design by C.L.Phillips and H.T.Nagle
· EEL6255 Power Systems Analysis and Electrical Machinery Course Description: Topics to include symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, power system estimation and control and power system stability. Textbook: Power System Analysis by J.J.Grainger and W.D.Stevenson
· EEL6621 Nonlinear Control Systems (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Phase plane descriptions of nonlinear phenomena, limit cycles, jump conditions, stability, describing functions, Liapunov and Popov theory, time and frequency domain analysis for nonlinear systems. Textbook: Nonlinear Systems by H.K.Khalil
· EEL6616 Adaptive Control (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: System identification and adaptive control design, including identification algorithms, MRAC, STR, and stochastic adaptive control. Lyapunov stability and input-output stability. Textbook: Stable Adaptive Systems by K.S.Narendra and A.M.Annaswamy
· EEL6662 Design of Robot Control Systems (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Coordinate transformation, differential equation of motion, trajectory planning, trajectory control, classical controls, advanced controls, force control, constrained motions, and redundancy Textbook 1: Robotics: Basic Analysis and Design by W.A.Wolovich (Oxford University Press) Textbook 2: Robust Tracking Control of Robot Manipulators by Z.Qu and D.M.Dawson (IEEE Press)
· EEL6619 Nonlinear Robust Control (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Stability, performance and robustness of nonlinear systems with uncertainties, Lyapunov-based designs, recursive designs and nonlinear optimal designs. Textbook: Robust Control Designs for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems by Z.Qu (John Wiley & Sons, Interscience Division)
· EEL6667 Planning and Control for Mobile Robotic Systems (developed at UCF by Dr.Qu) Course Description: Non-holonomic systems, kinematics and dynamics, trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance, canonical terms, control design, stability, performance, robustness. Textbook: A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation by R.M.Murry, Z.Li and S.S.Sastry (CRC Press)
· EEL6617 Fundamentals of Modern Multivariable Control Course Description: Emphasis on stability and performance analysis in time and frequency domains and on design tools for optimal performance and robustness. Textbook: Multivariable Feedback Design by J.M. Maciejowski (Addison Wesley)
· EEL6671 Modern and Optimal Control Systems Course Description: The optimal control problem. Necessary conditions for constrained minimums in finite dimensional space. Application to discrete time control problems. Pontryagin conditions and Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Computational considerations. Textbook: Optimal Control by F.L.Lewis and V.L.Syrmos (Wiley Interscience)
· EEL6683 Cooperative Control of Networked Autonomous Systems (developed at UCF by Dr. Qu) Course Description: Cooperative control of heterogeneous dynamical systems sharing a sensing and communication network of intermittently changing topologies Textbook: Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems: Applications to Autonomous Vehicles by Z. Qu · EEL6680 Advanced Topics in Controls Course Description: Introduces students to present-day issues in control systems analysis, design, and implementation. Textbook: Notes, handouts, and research articles Georgia Institute of Technology: · EE4015 Feedback Control Systems Textbook: Feedback Control Systems by J. Van de Vegte Special Educational Projects: · Lead technical advisor for UCF Darpa Urban Challenge Team (UCF Knight) (2006-2007) · Interdisciplinary Program (Engineering minor) in Intelligent Robotic Systems, College of Engineering and Computer Science (2005) · Advisor for the NSF-UP STEM Program at the Bethune-Cookman College (2003-2008) · Undergraduate Design Committee, Joint Educational Program between UCF and Lockheed (1999-2000). · REU projects funded by NSF (1999-2001). · Selected to teach the honor section of EGN3373 for engineering honor students (Spring 1999). · Web-based graphical simulation environment of control systems based on Java and Matlab (1998). · Laboratory development and instruction in the first-time offering of EGN1006 Introduction to Engineering, a freshmen course in engineering (1998) · Joint Mathematics-Engineering offering of EGN3373 (Principles of Electrical Engineering) and MAP 2303 (Differential Equation) (1998-1999) · Leader of a UCF faculty team in assisting Brevard Community College to establish a cleanroom material handling center (1997-1998) · Distributed and real time control system based on Tornado 1.01 and Stethoscope from Windriver Systems (1998) or MatrixX from Integrated Systems (1997) · A 3-D visualization and simulation of robotic motion based on Simulink and Matlab (1997 and 1998). · Academic advisor for the new Energy Education Program at the Bethune-Cookman College (1996-1997) · Development of Fortran software package for simulating large-scale power systems (1995) · REU projects funded by NASA (1995-1997). · Regular offerings of graduate courses on ITV.
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