Vikram Kapila
Associate Professor

Room: RH 508
Phone: (718) 260-3161/3160
E-mail: vkapila@poly.edu

 

Areas of Interest

Research:

  • Absolute Stability Theory
  • Robust Multivariable Control
  • Fixed-Architecture Absolute Stabilization
  • Periodic and Multirate Control
  • Control of Time Delay Systems
  • Mechatronics
  • Robust Reduced-Order Modeling, Estimation, and Control
  • Control of Systems with Saturating Actuators
  • Multiple Satellite Formation Flying: Dynamics and Control
  • DSP/PC-based Real-Time Control

Teaching:

  • Applied Mechanics:Statics
  • Applied Mechanics: Dynamics
  • Mechanical Vibration
  • Automatic Control (Classical and Modern)
  • Digital Control
  • Optimal Multivariable Feedback Control
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Optimal Robust Control
  • Periodic/Multirate Control
  • Mixed H-2/mu Control Theory
  • Real-Time Control Laboratory

 

Industrial:

  • Control System Design
  • Dynamic Modeling
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Algorithm Development
  • PC and DSP Based Real-Time Control
  • Applications in Aerospace and Mechanical Disciplines

Education
B.Tech., Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India, 1988.
(Production Engineering and Management)
M.S., Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 1993.
(Mechanical Engineering: Dynamics and Control)
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1996.
(Aerospace Engineering: Flight Mechanics and Control)

Additional Information

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