Marc Bodson

Professor and Department Chair

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
50 S CENTRAL CAMPUS DR RM 3280
SALT LAKE CITY UT 84112-9206

Office: Merrill Engineering Building, Rm 3268
Tel.: (801) 581-8590, Fax: (801) 581 5281
E-mail: bodson@ece.utah.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986, University of California, Berkeley.
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ingénieur Civil Mécanicien et Electricien, 1980, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Professional Data

Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2003 to present.
Engineering Educator of the Year award, received from the Utah Engineers Council, February 2007.
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to the theory of adaptive control to electromechanical and flight control systems”, January 2006.
Senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Plenary speaker at 2006 IEEE SMC Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, held in Logan, Utah, in July 2006.
Plenary speaker at the Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique, Douz, Tunisia, November 22, 2004.
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2000 to 2003.
Associate Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999 to 2003.
Professor at the University of Utah, 1999 to present.
Associate Professor at the University of Utah, 1994 to 1999 (tenured in 1997).
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 1996 to 1999.
Assistant and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, 1987 to 1993.
Lady Davis fellow, Technion, Israel, 1990.
Belgian American Educational Foundation fellow, 1980.

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Teaching Activities

Control of Electric Motors: El En 5570, Fall 01. Click here to view the course syllabus

Introduction to Feedback Systems: El En 3510, Spring 03. Click here to view the course syllabus

Adaptive Control: ECE 6570, Fall 02. Click here to view the course syllabus

Research Interests

Modeling, identification and control, with an emphasis on adaptive control. Applications to aerospace and electromechanical systems. Current projects include:

  • Adaptive algorithms for active noise and vibration control:
    		 The objective is to develop methods for the cancellation of noise using speakers. The emphasis is on multi-channel systems and periodic noise sources of unknown frequency.


  • Flight control systems:
    		Reconfigurable flight control laws have been developed that automatically adjust their strategy after failures or damages. Recent research has produced algorithms that optimize the use of multiple, redundant control surfaces (the so-called control allocation problem), and autonomous control laws for unmanned air vehicles.

  • Control of electric motors:
    		The objective is to maximize the performance of electric motor drives using nonlinear and adaptive control techniques. A current project investigates the development of an "electronic motor," which is to be the electrical equivalent of a brushless DC motor but without moving parts. The electronic motor will accelerate and facilitate the testing of motor drives.

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    Last updated: March 8, 2007