Professor Bob Bitmead

Cymer Corporation Chair
for High Performance Dynamical Systems Modeling and Control
Dynamical Systems & Control Group
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093-0411 US

Email:rbitmead@ucsd.edu
Phone: int +1 858 822 3477
Fax: int +1 858 822 3107

Assistant: Matthew Cobas
Phone: int +1 858 822 1269

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Contacts

Resume material and link to full curriculum vitae

Technical publications, samples and link to complete list

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Amusements

San Diego Lions Australian Football Club

Things I hate in other people's seminars

Cyd Vicious mausoleum site

Some snaps

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Full Curriculum Vitae (pdf format)

Research Interests

Identification for robust control design
Adaptive speech coding
Nonlinear estimation and control
Adaptive and iterative control design
Industrial control applications
Telecommunications systems

Skills Areas

Control Systems - Robust Control Design, Optimal Control Design, Model Predicitve Control, State Estimation
Signal Processing -Digital Filtering, Estimation, Data Analysis, Adaptive Estimation, Speech Compression
Modeling - System Identification, Modeling for Control Design, Experiment Design
Kalman Filtering - Estimation in noise corrupted environments, Soft sensors
Telecommunications - Network congestion control, Multiple antenna wireless system

Academic Gongs

Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2005
Fellow of the Insititue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1991
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1999
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 1994
Inaugural Cymer Chair for High Performance Dynamical System Modeling and Control
IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer 2001-2005

PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Newcastle, 1980
"Convergence Properties of Discrete-time Stochastic Adaptive Estimation Algorithms"

ME (Electrical Engineering), University of Newcastle, 1977
"Matrix Transfer Function Description of Linear Systems"

BSc (Hons I) (Applied Mathematics), University of Sydney, 1976

Society Activities

International Federation of Automatic Control, Council Member 1996-2002
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2000, Sydney, General Chair

Industrial and Applied Projects

Australian Sugar Industry, Australian Steel Industry, US Aerospace Industry, US Transportation Industry, US Telecommunications Industry
Primarily in Modeling, Control and Estimation

Management Experience

1991-1999 Executive Director (CEO) of CRASys Ltd, and incorporated Cooperative Research Centre with partners: The Australian National University, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd (BHP), Boeing Australia, and Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
September 2004 - August 2006 Member UCSD Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP), Chair 2005-06

Academic Appointments

1982-1999 Professor of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Canberra
Visiting appointments: Kyoto University, Institute of Automation and Computer Science (INRIA) France, University of Louvain Belgium, Cornell University

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Recent Sample Works (pdf format)

Complete Publication List (pdf format)

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UCSD Courses

MAE140 Linear Circuits
MAE143A Signals and Systems
MAE143B Linear Control
MAE280B Linear Control Design
MAE283A Parametric Identification: Theory and Methods
MAE283B Approximate Identification and Control
MAE285 Optimal Control and Estimation

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