UCSB Engineering
Faculty

Andrew Teel

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Andrew Teel

Contacts

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-3616
fax: (805) 893-3262
teel@ece.ucsb.edu

Research Description

Dr. Teel's research focuses on the development of feedback control algorithms for nonlinear and hybrid dynamical systems. He is a recognized expert on control problems that directly take into account actuator limitations like magnitude and rate limits. He is a pioneer in the development of novel stability analysis tools for nonlinear and hybrid systems. The applications he has worked on include drug treatment scheduling for HIV patients, online optimization of automobile engine performance, active vibration isolation technology, mobile robots, and aerospace applications.

Biography

Dr. Teel was a post-doctoral researcher at Ecole des Mines De Paris during the second half of 1992. From 1993 to the middle of 1997 he served on the faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Teel joined the UCSB ECE faculty in 1997 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1999. He was the director of the Engineering College's Center for Control Engineering and Computation from April 2003 to April 2005. He is an associate editor for the IFAC control journal Automatica, and he is the chair for the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control.


Awards/Honors

  • IEEE Fellow, 2002
  • American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, 2001
  • American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award, 1999
  • IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, 1998
  • IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award, 1998
  • SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize, 1998
  • NSF Career Award, 1995

Selected Publications

  • An anti-windup strategy for active vibration isolation systems, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, 17-27, Zaccarian L, Teel AR, Marcinkowski JJ
  • Extremum seeking methods for optimization of variable cam timing engine operation, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 14, no. 3, 2006, 398-407, Popovic D, Jankovic M, Magner S, Teel AR
  • Solutions to hybrid inclusions via set and graphical convergence with stability theory applications, Automatica, vol. 42, no. 4, 2006, 573-87, Goebel R, Teel AR
  • Examples when nonlinear model predictive control is nonrobust, Automatica, vol. 40, no. 10, 2004, 1729-38, Grimm G, Messina MJ, Tuna SE, Teel AR
  • Input to state set stability for pulse width modulated control systems with disturbances, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 51, no. 1, 2004, 23-32, Teel AR, Moreau L, Nesic D
  • Input-output stability properties of networked control systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 10, 2004, 1650-67, Nesic D, Teel AR
  • Nonlinear antiwindup applied to Euler-Lagrange systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 20, no. 3, 2004, 526-37, Morabito F, Teel AR, Zaccarian L
  • Antiwindup for stable linear systems with input saturation: an LMI-based synthesis, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 9, 2003, 1509-25, Grimm G, Hatfield J, Postlethwaite I, Teel AR, Turner MC, Zaccarian L
  • Control allocation and zero dynamics, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 21, no. 3, 1998, 458-64, Buffington JM, Enns DF, Teel AR
  • A nonlinear small gain theorem for the analysis of control systems with saturation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 41, no. 9, 1996, 1256-70, Teel AR