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  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to estimation and optimization of distributed parameter systems

Overview

Michael A. Demetriou is affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and computer science, with a significant focus on control and systems engineering as well as aerospace engineering and numerical analysis.

Demetriou's recent papers cover a variety of topics in control systems and applied mathematics. Notable works include:

  • "Electricity in the air: Insights from two decades of advanced control research and experimental flight testing of airborne wind energy systems," 2021, Annual Reviews in Control
  • "N-acetylglucosamine inhibits inflammation and neurodegeneration markers in multiple sclerosis: a mechanistic trial," 2023, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • "Navigating over 3D environments while minimizing cumulative exposure to hazardous fields," 2020, Automatica
  • "Adaptive Techniques for the Online Estimation of Spatial Fields With Mobile Sensors," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Unknown input functional observers for vector second order structural systems," 2021, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Their research contributions also involve work on stability and controllability of differential equations, numerical methods for differential equations, and adaptive control of nonlinear systems. Other prominent topics include advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, distributed control of multi-agent systems, control systems and identification, and computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Demetriou include Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Weiwei Hu, X.C. Tian, David J. Olinger, and Michael Sy.

Michael A. Demetriou has published extensively in specific venues such as the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), the 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), the 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Automatica, and IFAC-PapersOnLine.

Award recognition includes being named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to estimation and optimization of distributed parameter systems.

Best Publications

  • Incipient fault diagnosis of dynamical systems using online approximators

    M.A. Demetriou;M.M. Polycarpou

  • Guidance of Mobile Actuator-Plus-Sensor Networks for Improved Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

    Michael A Demetriou

  • Model Reference Adaptive Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

    Michael Böhm;M. A. Demetriou;Simeon Reich;I. G. Rosen

  • Design of consensus and adaptive consensus filters for distributed parameter systems

    Michael A. Demetriou

  • Electricity in the air: Insights from two decades of advanced control research and experimental flight testing of airborne wind energy systems

    Chris Vermillion;Mitchell Cobb;Lorenzo Fagiano;Rachel Leuthold

  • On-Line Parameter Estimation for Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems

    J. Baumeister;W. Scondo;M. A. Demetriou;I. G. Rosen

  • A computational scheme for the optimal sensor/actuator placement of flexible structures using spatial H2 measures

    Wei Liu;Zhikun Hou;Michael A. Demetriou

  • Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

    Orest Iftime;Michael A. Demetriou

  • Robust detection and accommodation of incipient component and actuator faults in nonlinear distributed processes

    Antonios Armaou;Michael A. Demetriou

  • Estimation of Spatially Distributed Processes Using Mobile Spatially Distributed Sensor Network

    Michael A. Demetriou;Islam I. Hussein

  • Natural second-order observers for second-order distributed parameter systems

    Michael A. Demetriou

  • Optimal actuator/sensor placement for linear parabolic PDEs using spatial H2 norm

    Antonios Armaou;Michael A. Demetriou

  • Optimal actuator/sensor location for active noise regulator and tracking control problems

    Fariba Fahroo;Michael A. Demetriou

  • Synchronization and consensus controllers for a class of parabolic distributed parameter systems

    Michael A. Demetriou

  • Adaptive identification of second-order distributed parameter systems

    M A Demetriou;I G Rosen

  • A Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis Scheme for Distributed Parameter Systems: A Learning Systems Approach

    Michael A. Demetriou

  • Adaptive Control of 2-D PDEs Using Mobile Collocated Actuator/Sensor Pairs With Augmented Vehicle Dynamics

    M. A. Demetriou

  • On the persistence of excitation in the adaptive estimation of distributed parameter systems

    M.A. Demetriou;I.G. Rosen

  • ADAPTIVE COMPENSATORS FOR PERTURBED POSITIVE REAL INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS

    Ruth F. Curtain;Michael A. Demetriou;Kazufumi Ito

  • Using unknown input observers for robust adaptive fault detection in vector second-order systems

    Michael A. Demetriou

Frequent Co-Authors

Karolos M. Grigoriadis
Karolos M. Grigoriadis University of Houston
Marios M. Polycarpou
Marios M. Polycarpou University of Cyprus
Wassim M. Haddad
Wassim M. Haddad Georgia Institute of Technology
Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos National Technical University of Athens
Anne Dell
Anne Dell Imperial College London
Katherine A. Siminovitch
Katherine A. Siminovitch Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mary M. Horowitz
Mary M. Horowitz Medical College of Wisconsin
Nael H. El-Farra
Nael H. El-Farra University of California, Davis
Steven M. Lipkin
Steven M. Lipkin Weill Cornell Medicine
William L. Johnson
William L. Johnson California Institute of Technology

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