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Tamer Inanc University of Louisville
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
W.S. Speed Building, Room 200, Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: (502)-852-7508, Fax: (502)-852-6807, E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Postdoctoral Scholar, Control and Dynamical Systems Dept. September 2002-August 2004
Advisor: Professor Richard M. Murray
The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA
Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering July 2002
Thesis: “A Novel Approach to Active Vision Systems: Identification, Control and Real-Time
Tracking”
Advisor: Professor Mario Sznaier
The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA
M.S., Department of Electrical Engineering June 1996
Thesis: “Mixed L1/ H Robust Identification: Application to a Flexible Structure Testbed”
Advisor: Professor Mario Sznaier
Dokuz Eylul University İzmir, Turkey
B.S., Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering July 1991
Senior Design Project: “Automatic Control of a Liquid-Level System”
RESEARCH INTEREST AND EXPERIENCE
Autonomous Robotics, Control Systems and System Identification (Modeling), Optimal Trajectory
Generation for UAVs, Robust Active Vision Systems, Control Systems Applications to Biomedical
Problems, Personalized Optimal Drug Dosing, 3D Fingerprint Identification and Biometrics
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Associate Professor, ECE Dept. July 2010-Present
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), ECE Dept. August 2004-July 2010
Thesis advisor of graduate students:
o Mr. James Cooke, E.E. M.Eng recruited Spring 2017
Paper: Study of Mobile Robots with Turtlebot and ROS
o Samenih Mezbah, E.E. (Bio Eng.) Ph.D. recruited Fall 2016
(Co-Advisor), Ayman El-Baz (Advisor)
Dissertation subject: TBA
Graduated students (Ph.D, M.S. and M.Eng.):
1. Mr. Aditya Mandalapu, E.E. M.S. graduated in Dec. 2016
2. Marwa Ismail, E.E. (Bio Eng.) Ph.D. graduated in Dec. 2016
(Co-Advisor), Ayman El-Baz (Advisor)
Dissertation subject: 3D Texture Analysis of the Gyri of Cerebral White Matter Lobes for
Autism Diagnosis
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3. Mr. Hossein Mirinejad, E.E. Ph.D., graduated in May 2016
Recruited Fall 2012,
Dissertation subject: A New RBF Approach for Solving Constrained Optimal Control
Problems
Current work: Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Eng., Univ. of Michigan
4. Mr. Elom Akabua, E.E. Ph.D., graduated in July 2014
Recruited Fall 2008,
Dissertation subject: Robust Patient Modeling and Drug Dosing Approach
5. Mathew Nitzken, E.E. (Bio Eng.) Ph.D. graduated in May 2015
(Co-Advisor), Ayman El-Baz (Advisor) started co-advising in Aug. 2010
Dissertation subject: Brain Shape Analysis
6. Ahmed Elnakib, E.E. (Bio Eng.) Ph.D. graduated in Dec. 2013
(Co-Advisor), Ayman El-Baz (Advisor)
Dissertation subject: Developing Advanced Mathematical Models for Detecting
Abnormalities in 2D/3D Medical Structures
7. Mr. Yinan Cui, E.E. Ph.D., graduated in May 2013
Recruited Fall 2007, Passed Ph.D. Oral Defense Exam on April 18, 2013.
Dissertation subject: MARIT: The Design, Implementation and Trajectory Generation with
NTG for Small UAVs
Current work: R&D Center of China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing
8. Mr. Ryan Frazier, E.E. M.Eng., Thesis option, May 2013
Thesis: Trajectory Generation for Mobile Robots with Player/Stage and NTG
Received Speed School Outstanding Student Award, May 2013
Current work: C&I Engineering, Louisville, KY
9. Ms. Sara Shafaei, E.E. Ph.D., graduated in August 2011
Recruited Fall 2006,
Dissertation subject: 3D Minutiae Detection in 3D Fingerprint Scans.
Current work: Core Infrastructure engineer at CafePress Inc., Louisville, KY
10. Mr. Weizhong Zhang, E.E. Ph.D., graduated Dec. 2009
Recruited Fall 2005,
Dissertation: “Optimal Trajectory Generation with DMOC versus NTG: Application to an
Underwater Glider and A JPL Aerobot.”
Received the Travel Award ($500) from the 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008.
Current work: Assistant Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
11. Mr. Lyall Di Trapani, E.E. M.Eng., Paper option (73 pages), August 2007
Paper: “NTGsim: A Graphical User Interface for the Nonlinear Trajectory Generation
Algorithm.”
Current work: Air Force
12. Mr. Travis A. Riggs, E.E. M.Eng., Thesis option, Dec. 2006
Thesis: “A Robotics Testbed: The Design & Implementation with Applications.”
Current work: Lexmark Inc., Lexington, KY
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California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Postdoctoral Scholar, Control and Dynamical Systems September 2002-August 2004
Worked on the project “Cooperative Path Planning, Nonlinear Real Time Trajectory
Generation for Unmanned Air Vehicles”, under the supervision of Professor Richard M.
Murray. Joint work with Alphatec Inc., Burlington, MA, on a DARPA – MICA (Mixed
Initiative Control of Automa-teams) program.
Supervised undergraduate students on the “Active Vision for the Multi-Vehicle Wireless
Testbed” project.
The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA
Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Dept. January 2000-January 2001
Found a family of models for an active-vision system, a BiSight/UniSight robotics
head-eye platform using robust identification algorithms for different zoom settings of the
system.
Designed robust controllers for the system using μ-robust control synthesis and
MATLAB/Simulink so that the system can track a moving object under varying zoom values.
Applied and tested these controllers on the robotics head using C++ and PMAC.
Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Dept. September 1997-June 1998
Developed new algorithms using MATLAB/Simulink for worst-case robust identification with
mixed parametric/nonparametric models and time/frequency-domain experimental data.
Tested these algorithms with experiments performed on a flexible-structure testbed.
Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Dept. September 1995-January 1996
Developed new worst-case robust identification algorithms using MATLAB/Simulink for
time-domain, frequency-domain, and mixed time-frequency domain experimental data. Tested
these algorithms with experiments performed on a flexible-structure testbed.
TEACHING INTEREST AND EXPERIENCE
Autonomous Robotics; Robust Control, in particular H, -analysis/synthesis; Robust Identification;
Linear Control Systems; Digital Control; Optimal Control; Digital Image Processing; Linear Systems;
Discrete-Time Linear Systems; Digital Signal Processing
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Associate Professor, (Tenured), ECE Dept. July 2010-Present
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), ECE Dept. August 2004-July 2010
Organized a new ECE564/565 Final Robotic Competition, "Robotic Box Sorting in
Warehouses". It was shown on WHAS-TV, Great Day Live Program., Dec. 2016.
Developed and taught a new graduate level course, ECE600 Introduction to Robust Control,
Fall 2012.
Taught ECE600 Intro. to Robust Control and ECE520/521 Dig. Signal Process. at GE Inc.,
Fall 2012 and Spring 2013, respectively.
Organized ENGR100 ECE Open House with the help of other faculty and students, Nov. 9-10,
2011.
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Developed and taught a new course (with laboratory) for senior and first year graduate
students, “ECE564/565, Fundamentals of Autonomous Robots”, in spring 2005. Students have
a robotic contest, open to the public, at the end of the semester.
Revised and taught a graduate level course with labs, “ECE618/635, Digital Image
Processing”.
Revised and taught a senior/graduate level course with labs, “ECE520/521, Digital Signal
Processing”.
Revised and taught a distance senior/graduate level course to WKU and Murray State
Universities, “EE 450/451, ETE 520/521 Digital Signal Processing”.
Revised and taught a graduate course, ECE662, Introduction to Optimum Control. Introduced
a new textbook and the state-of-art nonlinear trajectory generation algorithm developed at
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Represented ECE Department in the new freshmen GES101 class (with Drs. Cindy K. Harnett
and Shamus McNamara since Fall 2006).
The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA
Assistant Professor (Non tenure-track), EE Dept. August 2001-May 2002
Taught two junior level courses. In both classes, organized and developed class materials,
computer projects, homework, and exam questions. Graded exam questions, taught classes and
held office hours.
o “Signals and Systems”; Continuous and discrete time signals and systems and their Fourier
analysis, sampling, z-transform. Intended for Computer Eng. majors only (a class of about
65 students).
o “Discrete Time Linear Systems”; Introduction to discrete-time signal processing,
sampling, linear time-invariant systems, Discrete-Time Fourier Transform and Discrete
Fourier Transform, z-transform, basic digital filter design (a class of about 55 students).
Instructor, Electrical Engineering Dept. January 2001-May 2001
Responsible of teaching a junior level course, “Discrete Time Linear Systems”.
Instructor, Electrical Engineering Dept. June 1998-December 1999
Organized and taught a junior level course, “Discrete Time Linear Systems”.
Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering Dept. January 1996-May 1997
Organized and instructed analog control laboratories. “Linear Control Systems (Lab Session)”;
State variables; time-domain and frequency-domain design and analysis; design of feedback
control systems; root locus. Course contains a significant laboratory component. (A class of
about 40 students).
İzmir Mithatpaşa Technical High School, İzmir, Turkey
Instructor, Electronics Department September 1992-May 1993
Organized and taught basic electronics and communication classes to senior students.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Elected as a Senior Member of the IEEE, Dec. 08, 2016.
Received a donation of a “Six Camera Vicon Motion Capture System” which has a commercial
market value of $53, 450 from Vicon Motion Systems Inc. in November 2008. This equipment
currently being used to establish “MARIT: Multiple Air Robotics Indoor Testbed at UofL”.
Winner of the 2008 Delphi Center, UofL, “Innovations in Technology Awards for Teaching and
Learning”, February 2008.
The 2006 Kentuckiana Metroversity Instructional Development Award for “Fundamentals of
Autonomous Robots”, 2006.
Travel grant awarded by the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1999.
Elected Member of Eta Kappa Nu - Epsilon Chapter.
Merit Scholarship (for M.S. and Ph.D. studies) winner in a nation-wide examination given by the
Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey, 1993.
PATENTS
“THREE DIMENSIONAL MINUTIAE EXTRACTION IN THREE DIMENSIONAL
SCANS”, U.S. Patent No. 8,965,069 B2, issued on Feb. 24th, 2015.
Provisional Patent Application, Sara Shafaei and Tamer Inanc, “3D (3-Dimensional)
Minutiae Detection in 3D Fingerprint Scans”, ULRF Ref. 11040, September 30, 2011.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Participating / chairing sessions and panels
Inanc, T. (Presenter & Author), Zhang, W. (Author only), 2013 International Conference on
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), "Controller design for small air vehicles - An overview
and comparison", Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept., Atlanta, GA, May 30, 2013.
Research Interest presentation, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 17, 2011.
Session chair at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
Istanbul, Turkey, October 10-13, 2010.
Research Interest presentation, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, October 7, 2010.
Research Interest presentation, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 14,
2010.
Session chair at the IEEE American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 10-12,
2009.
Co-organizer with Prof. Jerrold E. Marsden, Caltech, “The Titan Mission Workshop”, JPL-
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, May 22, 2008.
Panelists: Hassebrook L.G. and Inanc T., “3-Dimensional Ridge Acquisition from Live Finger
and Palm Surface Scans,” Panel Discussion Moderator: Christopher Miles DOJ/National
Institute of Justice. International Association for Identification, 92nd International Educational
Conference, San Diego, California, July 26, (2007).
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Organizer and Chair of the Interactive Invited Session “Trajectory Generation for Constrained
Systems: Theory and Application, Part II”, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
San Diego, California, December 13-15, 2006.
Co-organizer of the Special Session “Trajectory Generation for Constrained Systems: Theory
and Application”, American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 14-16, 2006.
Invited to a NSF panel to review proposals dealing with control systems, signal processing,
robotics, estimation and optimization of systems, June 8-9, 2006.
Invited by the Springer-Verlag, London to review a book proposal, “Pliable, Robust, and
Cooperative Control of Autonomous Vehicle Systems”, October 2005.
Selected as a panelist to vote on Best Paper Award for the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004.
Organizer of the Workshop “Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG)”,
California Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems, September 2003.
Reviewer for the following journals and conferences
Automatica, a Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a journal of IEEE.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, a journal of IEEE.
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
Journal of Control Engineering Practice
Asian Journal of Control
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference.
IEEE American Control Conference.
IEEE International Conference on Control Applications and International Symposium on
Intelligent Control, Computer Aided Control Systems Design.
IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, UofL, Committees
Speed DFA (Distinguished Faculty Awards) Committee member, 2/17/2012 – Current
Speed i2A Committee member, Aug. 2013 – Current
ECE Awards Committee Chair, 9/26/2009 – Current
ECE Awards Committee Member, January 2008 - Current
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ECE Communication Committee Member, August 2004, December 2007
Serving (served) in thesis committees of students
E.E. Ph.D.: Asem M. Ali, Rachid Fahmi, Hossam E Abd EL Munim, R. M. Mohamed, A.
Alaa, A. S. El-Baz, H. Hassan, M. Sabry, M. K. Muezzinoglu, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Gang
Zhao, Jingli Li, Mousumi Bhattacharya, Mohammadreza Negahdar, Iman Khodarahmi, Melih
Aslan, Hui Wang, Mostafa A Abdelrahman, Fahmi A Khalifa, Kadbi Mo, Nasser Saadatzi,
Carmine Giglio, Sukanta Chowdhury.
E.E. M.S.: S. E. Yuksel. M.E. M.S.: J. J. Carnahan.
Membership in professional organizations
Senior Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society
Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Participated in “College for a Day” event on Saturday, 5/16/2015, 8:30am-4:30pm. 19 students
from several middle schools attended. In this robotics program, in the morning I showed them
demo of the egg hunt robotic competition, have them do experiments learning the Handyboard.
In the afternoon, they started programming Handyboard and built their robot with legos.
Organizing final robotic competition for ECE564, Fund. of Autonomous Robots, every Fall
semester. For this event, we invite more than hundred students from several middle and
elementary schools. They all join us to watch the Robo-Pong, Egg-Hunt and Treasure Hunt
final robotic competitions. The last event was held on Dec. 14th, 2016. Since 2005, most likely
more than one thousand students from middle, elementary and high schools have been reached
out with the final robotic competition encouraging young minds towards engineering and
science.
Participated in the “2008 East Oldham Middle School Science Fair”, April 4, 2008.
Demonstrated Robo-Pong competition and several experiments with ER1 mobile robots.
Participated in the INSPIRE (Increasing Student Preparedness and Interest in the Requisites
for Engineering) program. The program is designed to acquaint students (female and minority
students who traditionally are underrepresented in engineering fields) with engineering's career
choices. Students performed hands-on experiments with robots to learn “Fundamentals of
Autonomous Robots”, every summer since June 28, 2005.
Participated in the “High School Outreach” Program which consists of students from the
engineering and computer clusters of the Louisville's Black Achievers program. Demonstrated
experiments to high school students on Autonomous Robots, Sep. 24, 2005 and Sep. 23, 2007.
Participated in the “Engineering Career Day” Program which invites up to 30 young women
from area high schools and provides them with information on the engineering school as well
as a general overview of aspects of the profession, March 07, 2006.
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PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
T. Inanc, M. Sznaier, and O. Camps, “Robust Identification and Model (In)validation of
Active-vision Systems”, in Identification and Control, The Gap between Theory and Practice,
Editors R. S. Sanchez-Pena, J. Q. Casin, and V.P. Cayuela, Springer, London, pp. 167-201,
2007.
Refereed Journal Papers
1. Mirinejad H., Gaweda A. E., Brier M. E., Zurada J. M., and Inanc T., “Individualized Drug
Dosing using RBF-Galerkin Method: Case of Anemia Management in Chronic Kidney
Disease”, submitted on 9/23/2016 to Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
Number CMPB_2016_987, in re-review since 2/25/2017.
2. Mirinejad H., Inanc T., and Zurada J. M., “Costate Estimation and Trajectory Optimization
using Radial Basis Function Interpolation and Galerkin Error Projection”, submitted on
2/22/2016 to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, in re-review since 1/15/2017.
3. Zhang, W., Wang D., and Inanc T., “A Multi-Phase DMOC-based Trajectory Optimization
Method”, submitted on 4/25/2016 to Optimal Control, Applications and Methods, in re-re-
review since 2/28/2017.
4. Zhang, W., and Inanc T., “DMOC-Based Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation
Methodology: A tutorial and its application”, in revision for Journal of Optimal Control,
Applications and Methods.
5. Cui. Y., and Inanc, T., “SUAV Control with the Multiple Air Robotics Indoor Testbed”,
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, under review.
6. Mirinejad, H., and Inanc, “An RBF Collocation Method for Solving Optimal Control
problems”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 87, pp. 219-225, 2017.
7. Akabua E., Inanc T., Gaweda A. E., Brier M. E., Kim S. and Zurada J. M., “Individualized
Model Discovery: The Case of Anemia Patients”, Journal of Computer Methods and
Programs in Biomedicine, 118(1):23-33, Oct. 14 2014.
8. Sznaier M., Ayazoglu M. and Inanc T, “Fast Structured Nuclear Norm Minimization with
Applications to Set Membership Systems Identification”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control,
vol. 59(10), pp. 2837-2842, 2014.
9. Nitzken, M., Casanova, M., Gimel’farb, G., Inanc, T., Zurada, J. M., El-Baz, A. S. “Shape
Analysis of Human Brain: A Brief Survey”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine, vol. 18(4), pp. 1337-1354, 2014.
10. Akabua E., Inanc T., Gaweda A. E., Brier M. E., Kim S. and Zurada J. M., “Robust
Identification Approach to Individualized Anemia Model”, Journal of Applied Computer
Science Methods, vol. 3(2), pp. 65-75, 2011.
11. L. J. Di Trapani and T. Inanc, “NTGsim: A Graphical User Interface and a 3D Simulator for
the Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG) Methodology”, International Journal of Applied
Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 305–316, 2010.
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12. T. Inanc and H. Dinh, “A Low Cost Autonomous Mobile Robotics Experiment: Control,
Vision, Sonar and Handy Board”, accepted to the International Journal of Computer
Applications in Engineering Education, August 2009.
13. T. A. Riggs, T. Inanc and W. Zhang, “An Autonomous Mobile Robotics Systems Testbed:
Construction, Validation and Experiments”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
Technology, vol. 18, no.3, pp. 757-766, May 2010.
14. T. Inanc, M. K. Muezzinoglu, K. Misovec and R. M. Murray, “Framework for Low-
Observable Trajectory Generation in the Presence of Multiple Radars”, AIAA Journal of
Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol.31, no.6, pp. 1740-1749, 2008.
15. M. Sznaier, T. Amishima and T. Inanc, “ 2H Control with Time-Domain Constraints: Theory
and an Application”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 355-368,
March 2003.
16. T. Inanc, M. Sznaier, P. A. Parrilo and R. S. Sanchez Pena, “Robust Identification with Mixed
Parametric/Nonparametric Models and Time/Frequency-Domain Experiments: Theory and an
Application”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 608-617,
July 2001.
17. P. A. Parrilo, M. Sznaier, R. S. Sanchez Pena and T. Inanc, “Mixed Time/Frequency-Domain
Based Robust Identification”, Automatica, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1375-1389, 1998.
Refereed Conference Papers
1. Mirinejad H. and Inanc T., “Individualized Anemia Management using a Radial Basis
Function Method”, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE USA Annual Meeting and Great Lakes
Biomedical Conference, pp. 1-4, 2015.
2. Mirinejad H. and Inanc T., “A Radial Basis Function Method for Direct Trajectory
Optimization”, Proceedings of the 2015 American Control Conference, pp. 4923-4928,
Chicago, IL, July 1-3, 2015.
3. Mirinejad, H., and Inanc, T., “RBF Method for Optimal Control of Drug Administration in
the Anemia of Hemodialysis Patients”, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Northeast Biomed.
Eng. Conf. (NEBEC), pp. 1-2, 2015.
4. Mirinejad, H., Inanc, T., Gaweda, A. E., and Brier, M. E., “RBF-Based Receding Horizon
Control Approach to Personalized Anemia Treatment”, Proceedings of the 41st Annual
Northeast Biomed. Eng. Conf. (NEBEC), pp. 1-2, 2015.
5. Akabua E. and Inanc T., “Preliminary Results: Robust versus Classical Identification
Approaches to Individualized Anemia Patient Modeling” accepted the 36th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBC'14), Chicago, IL, August 26-30, 2014.
6. Cui Y.; Inanc, T., “Controller design for small air vehicles - An overview and comparison”,
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS),
Atlanta, GA, pp. 621-627, 28-31 May 2013.
7. A. Elnakib, G. Gimel’farb, T. Inanc, and A. El-Baz, “Modified Akaike Information Criterion
For Estimating The Number of Components in A Probability Mixture Model”, Proceedings of
the 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'12), Orlando, Florida, pp.
2497-2500, September 30–October 3, 2012.
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8. Cui Y.; Inanc, T., “Multiple Air Robotics Indoor Testbed”, Proceedings of. the 24th Chinese
Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Taiyuan, China, pp.3487-3492, 23-25 May 2012.
9. W. Zhang, T. Inanc and A. Elfes, “Opportunistic 3D Trajectory Generation for the JPL
Aerobot with Nonlinear Trajectory Generation Methodology”, Proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December
7-10, 2010.
10. W. Zhang and T. Inanc, “A Tutorial for Applying DMOC to Solve Optimization Control
Problems”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1857-1862, October 2010.
11. W. Zhang, T. Inanc and A. Elfes, “Energy Efficient Trajectory Generation for a State-Space
Based JPL Aerobot”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 4107-4112, October 18-22, 2010.
12. S. Shafaei, T. Inanc and L. G. Hassebrook, “A New Approach to Unwrap a
3-D Fingerprint to a 2-D Rolled Equivalent Fingerprint”, Proceedings of the IEEE Third
International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington DC,
pp. 370-374, Sept. 28-30, 2009.
13. L. J. Di Trapani and T. Inanc, “NTGsim: A Graphical User Interface for the Nonlinear
Trajectory Generation Algorithm”, Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conf., St.
Louis, Missouri, pp. 402-407, June 2009.
14. H. Dinh and T. Inanc, “Low Cost Mobile Robotics Experiment with Camera and Sonar
Sensors”, Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conf., St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 3793-
3798, June 2009.
15. W. Zhang, T. Inanc and J. E. Marsden, “DMOC Approach of Real-Time Optimal Trajectory
Generation”, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics
and Vision, Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 2192-2195, Dec 17-20, 2008.
16. W. Zhang, T. Inanc, S. Ober-Blobaum and J. E. Marsden, “Optimal Trajectory Generation for
a Glider in Time-Varying 2D Ocean Flows B-Spline Model”, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California, pp. 1083-1088,
May, 2008.
17. T. Inanc, R. Bhattacharya, and M. K. Muezzinoglu, “Use of Parametric Approximation in
Real-Time Nonlinear Trajectory Generation”, Proceedings of. the 45th IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, San Diego, California, pp. 6808-6813, December 13-15, 2006.
18. M. K. Muezzinoglu and T. Inanc, “Trajectory Generation in Guided Spaces using NTG
Algorithm and Artificial Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE American Control
Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 5776-5781, June 14-16, 2006.
19. T. Inanc, S. C. Shadden and J. E. Marsden, “Optimal Trajectory Generation in Ocean Flows”,
Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp. 674-679, June
8-10, 2005.
20. T. Inanc, K. Misovec and R. M. Murray, “Nonlinear Trajectory Generation for Unmanned Air
Vehicles with Multiple Radars”, Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 3817-3822, December 14-17, 2004.
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21. K. Misovec, T. Inanc, J. Wohletz and R. M. Murray, “Low-Observable Nonlinear Trajectory
Generation for Unmanned Air Vehicles”, Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, vol.3, pp. 3103-3110, December 9-12, 2003.
22. T. Inanc, M. Sznaier and O. Camps, “Synthesizing Robust Active Vision Systems: A Combined
Robust Identification/-Synthesis Approach”, Proceedings of the International Federation of
Automatic Control World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 163-168, July 21-26, 2002.
23. M. Sznaier, T. Inanc and O. Camps, “Robust Controller Design for Active Vision Systems”,
Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, v3, pp. 2013-2017, June 28-
30, 2000.
24. M. Sznaier, C. Mazzaro and T. Inanc, “An LMI Approach to Control Oriented Identification
of LPV Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, v5, pp.
3682-3686, June 28-30, 2000.
25. T. Inanc, M. Sznaier, P. A. Parrilo and R. S. Sanchez Pena, “Robust Identification with Mixed
Parametric/Nonparametric Models and Time/Frequency-Domain Experiments: Theory and an
Application”, Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix,
Arizona, v2, pp. 1940-1945, Dec. 7-10, 1999.
26. M. Sznaier, T. Inanc, R. S. Sanchez Pena and P. A. Parrilo, “Robust Identification with Mixed
Time/Frequency-Domain Experiments: Theory and an Application”, Proceedings of the IEEE
American Control Conference, Albuquerque, NM, v1, pp. 600-604, June 4-6, 1997.
Workshops and Seminars
Inanc, T., Mirinejad, H., Gaweda, A., Brier, M., Zurada, J. M. (2016). “Individualized Drug
Dosing Using RBF-Galerkin Method: Case of Anemia Management”. Poster, Research
Louisville!, Louisville, October 11-14, 2016.
Attended 2014 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference, 2/7/2014
Conducting bi-weekly seminars for graduate students in joint Computational Intelligence,
Control and Robotics Laboratories of ECE Department, with Professor J. M. Zurada.
Summer Research at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, with Dr. Gurdal Ertek and Dr.
Volkan Patoglu, June 5, 2011 – June 30, 2011.
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 17, 2011. During the presentation I discussed my
researcher interest areas in broader sense with the faculty and students at Sabanci University,
one of the best private universities in Turkey, to initiate collaborations.
Invited Speaker, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, October 7, 2010.
Invited Speaker, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 14, 2010.
Weizhong Zhang, Tamer Inanc (University of Louisville), Alberto Elfes (NASA), “Energy
Efficient Opportunistic Trajectory Generation for a JPL Aerobot with NTG Methodology”,
Poster Presentation at 15th Annual Kentucky EPSCOR Conference, May 24, 2010, Lexington,
KY.
“Opportunistic Nonlinear Trajectory Generation for NASA-JPL’s Aerobot”, presented at the
Titan Mission Workshop, JPL-Caltech, Pasadena, CA, May 22, 2008.
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“Real-Time, 3-D Finger and Palm-Print Scanner for Entry and Access Portal Security”, the
International Association for Identification Conference, San Diego, CA, July 25-26, 2007,
presented with Dr. L. Hassebrook.
“Opportunistic Nonlinear Trajectory Generation for NASA-JPL’s Aerobot Towards Robotic
Exploration of Mars, Titan, Venus and Beyond”, presented at the KY EPSCoR Conference,
October 2, 2007.
“Tutorial on Advanced Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG) Software (Part I),
Using Tables and B-Splines with NTG (Part II)”, Workshop on Nonlinear Trajectory
Generation, California Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems, September
15-16, 2003.
“Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-teams (MICA) Overview”, presented at California
Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems, August 25, 2003.
“Low-Observable Nonlinear Trajectory Generation for Unmanned Air Vehicles”, presented
at the Sixth Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop, University of California at San
Diego, May 9-10, 2003.
“Preliminary Low-Observability Management and Temporal Constraints with Nonlinear
Trajectory Generation”, Program Management Review Technical Presentation for DARPA-
MICA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-
teams) program, Alphatech Inc., Burlington, MA, presented with Kathleen Misovec,
Alphatech Inc., Burlington, MA, January 23, 2003.
“A Novel Approach to Robust Active Vision Systems: Identification, Control and Real Time
Tracking”, presented at California Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems,
October 2002.