Konstantinos S. 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

1. Prediction and Control of Epileptic Seizures
2. Embedded Control Systems (Educational)
3. System Identification and Control 
1. MIMO loopshaping: Furnaces, Paper machines etc
2. PID Controller Tuning
3. Performance Monitoring
4. Nonlinear ID
   
4. Browser-Based Control Systems Simulation (Educational)
5. Run-to-Run Control
6. Scheduling of Operations (Semiconductor Manufacturing)
7. Sensors (Ellipsometry-MBE)
8. Adaptive Systems Theory

•  Prediction and Control of Epileptic Seizures
• Presentation (Patras 2004, Mexico 2005) 
• Presentation (Florida 2008)
  

•  Embedded Control Systems (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  

•  Multivariable system identification and control:  Temperature Control of Diffusion/CVD Furnaces
  (sponsored by SEMY Eng. Inc., -now Brooks PRI EESBU)
• 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
  

• 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

•  Identification and Control for Paper Machines
  (sponsored by Honeywell HTC-Phoenix)
• Paper Machines, CDC'99 

•  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

•  Controller Performance Monitoring, ACC'02 presentation
  

•  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

•  A Control-Theoretic Approach to Scheduling Semiconductor Fabrication Processes
  (sponsored by INTEL Co.
• Project description and some results

•  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
  

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

•  Burst phenomena in adaptive systems: 
•  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      
  

• Experimental Identification of Static Process Models and Run-to-Run Control
  
(sponsored by MOTOROLA)

• ECE 201: 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