Konstantinos Tsakalis Professor Contact Info: (480) 965-1467, Office: GWC 358 Current Schedule

Personal Info: Ph.D., University of Southern California (Adaptive Control of Time-Varying Plants) MS EE, MS ChE (USC), BSc ChE (ΕΜΠ) Interests: Control Systems (Adaptive, Linear, Time-Varying, Nonlinear, Embedded) System Identification, Optimization Applications to Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes Biomedical Applications: Prediction and Control of Epileptic Seizures List of publications and student theses/dissertations (upd. March 2015)

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Project Info

Prediction and Control of Epileptic Seizures

• supported by NSF
• Presentation (Patras 2004, Mexico 2005)
• Presentation (Florida 2008)
• Presentation (Eindhoven 2013)

Embedded Control Systems (Educational) 

• supported by Consortium for Embedded & Networking Technologies
• Class Notes
• Model files for experiments, notes
• REAL-TIME FURNACE TEMPERATURE EMULATION: A MATLAB-SIMULINK/RTW/xPC-embedded project
• NOTES ON BUILDING REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS WITH MATLAB (2006) 

System Identification and Control

MIMO loopshaping: Furnaces, Paper machines etc

PID Controller Tuning

Performance Monitoring

Nonlinear ID

· Multivariable system identification and control:  Temperature Control of Diffusion/CVD Furnaces 
(sponsored by SEMY Eng. Inc., -then Brooks PRI EESBU –then Applied Materials) 

• 1998 Best Products Award
• Furnace Example
• MIMO ID and Gain-Scheduled Control, CDC'99
• Model Based Temperature Control AEC/APC X
• Nonlinear  System Identification (AEC/APC Dresden 2004)
• For a Simulink furnace emulator see class notes page

· Integrated Identification and PID Controller Tuning by Frequency Loop-Shaping 
(sponsored by Honeywell HTC-Phoenix)

• PID Tuning, CDC'99
• Adaptive PID, CDC'00
• For a "quick" PID tuner see class notes page

· Identification and Control for Paper Machines 
(sponsored by Honeywell HTC-Phoenix)

• Paper Machines, CDC'99

· Controller Performance Monitoring,

§ ACC'02 presentation

· Browser-Based Control Systems Simulation (Educational)

J-DSP-C: A Browser-Based Control Systems Simulation Environment
(supported by NSF-CCLI)

• J-DSP-C, IASTED MIC'03
• Link to J-DSP-C program

· Run-to-Run Control
Run-to-Run Control: Application to Oxidation Processes 
(with SEMY Eng. Inc. and AMD)

• Run-to-Run Control, IASTED MIC'99
• Run-to-run Control, Sematech AEC-APC XI

Scheduling of Operations (Semiconductor Manufacturing)

o A Control-Theoretic Approach to Scheduling Semiconductor Fabrication Processes 

(sponsored by INTEL Co. 

• Project description and some results

Sensors (Ellipsometry-MBE)

o Integrated Multi-Sensor Control for MBE Control of III-V Nanostructures

(sponsored by DARPA )

• Real-time Composition Control using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
• Modeling of Optical Constants of III-V Semiconductors

Adaptive Systems Theory

•  Mathematical Modeling for Simulation and Control of Semiconductor Processing
  (sponsored by DARPA )
• Optimal Control for LPCVD Processes, AEC-APC VI

o Burst phenomena in adaptive systems:

(sponsored by NSF)

• Abstract and an Example
• Class Notes + monograph (Tsakalis & Ioannou, Linear Time-Varying Systems: Control and Adaptation)

Let's make something that walks on two legs: The Hydrapod Senior Design Project

Other Projects: 

Experimental Identification of Static Process Models and Run-to-Run Control

(sponsored by MOTOROLA)

Course Info

EEE 202: Electrical Networks I EEE 203: Signals and Systems EEE 304: Signals and Systems II EEE 480: Feedback Systems EEE 481: Computer Controlled Systems EEE 482: Intro State Space EEE 550: Transform Theory EEE 582: Linear Systems EEE 586: Nonlinear Systems EEE 587: Optimal Control EEE 686: Adaptive Control

Various Class Notes, Projects, etc. Notes on:    linear algebra, system identification, controller design    modeling examples, case studies    applied optimization, adaptive estimation algorithms    quick PID tuner m-files    wafer furnace emulator in SIMULINK