UCSB Engineering

Brad Paden

Professor

Contacts

UCSB Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Engr. II, 2336
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070

tel: (805) 451-4995
fax: (805) 893-8651
paden@engineering.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Control of electromechanical systems, robotics & medical devices. Nonlinear control theory.

Biography

Professor Paden received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1985 and is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Mechanical Engineering Department with a joint appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests focus on nonlinear control theory and its application to electromechanical systems. He was a visiting fellow at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia in 1988. In 1993, he won the Best Paper Award from the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control and the IEEE Control System Society Technology Award in 2001. In 2002, he was a distinguished foreign visitor and plenary speaker at the Brazilian Control Conference - the largest control conference in South America. An additional conference award is the 2001 James Yorke Red Sock Award given at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems for his work on experimental chaos. He has consulted for industry on the design and control of magnetic bearings, design of medical devices, and has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Robotic Systems. He is co-founder and president of LaunchPoint Technologies - a systems firm specializing in venture engineering. He has 13 patents and is an IEEE Fellow.

Awards/Honors

• IEEE Fellow, 2004
• Distinguished Foreign Visitor and Plenary Speaker, Brazilian Control Conference, 2002
• IEEE Control System Society Technology Award, 2001
• James Yorke Red Sock Award (SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems), 2001
• Best Paper Award (ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control), 1993
• Associate Editor, Journal of Robotic Systems, 1990-1992
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, 1988
• General Electric Faculty Development Fellowship, 1983
• General Motors Scholarship, 1976

Selected Publications

• Fluidic Operational Amplifier for Mock Circulatory Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 14:4, 2006, 602-612, K.W. Gwak, B.E. Paden, M.D. Noh & J.F. Antaki, web link
• The Bouncing Ball Apparatus as an Experimental Tool, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 128:2, 2006, 330-340, A. Kini, T.L. Vincent & B. Paden
• Design Optimization of Blood Shearing Instrument by Computational Fluid Dynamics, Artificial Organs, 29:6, 2005, 482-489, J. Wu, J. Antaki, T. Snyder, W. Wagner, H. Borovetz & B. Paden, web link
• Automated spectro-goniometer: A spherical robot for the measurement of the bidirectional reflectance of Snow, Review of Scientific Instruments, 74:12, 2003, 5179-5188, T. H. Painter, B. E. Paden & J. Dozier, web link
• Optimal design of permanent magnet bearings with application to the HeartQuest ventricular assist device, JSME International Journal, Series C, Vol. 46:2, 2003, 403-408, C. Chen, B. Paden, J. Antaki, J. Ludlow & G. Bearnson, web link
• A pseudoinverse-based iterative learning control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 47:5, 2002, 831-836, J. Ghosh & B. Paden, web link
• Award winning control applications, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 22:6, 2002, 8- 20, J. Antaki, S. Banda, B. Paden & M. Piovoso, web link
• MEMS resonators that are robust to process-induced feature width variation, JMEMS, 11:5, 2002, 505-511, R. Liu, B. Paden & K. Turner, web link
• A magnetic suspension theory and its application to the HeartQuest Ventricular Assist Device, Artificial Organs, 26:11, 2001, 947-951, C. Chen, B. Paden, J. Antaki, J. Ludlow, D. Paden, R. Crowson & G. Bearnson, web link