John Doyle
Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Electrical Engineering
Education
Received the BS and MS degrees in electrical
engineering from MIT in 1977, and the PhD degree in mathematics from
UC-Berkeley in 1984. Served as a consultant to Honeywell
Technology Center since 1976, and became an Associate Professor (with
tenure) at Caltech in 1986, and Professor in 1991.
Individual awards
- IEEE Centennial Outstanding Young Engineer Award (as the top young
researcher under 40 from the IEEE Controls Systems Society as part of the
IEEE Centenniel celebration in 1984).
- 1976 IEEE Hickernell Award.
- 1983 American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Eckman Award.
- 1984 Bernard Friedman Award (from UC Berkeley)
- 1986 ONR Presidential Young Investigator
- 1986 NSF Presidential Young Investigator
- National and world records and championships in various
sports.
Outstanding paper awards
- IEEE Transactions George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Awards (twice)
- 1991 IEEE Baker Prize (awarded once each year to the outstanding paper
reporting new research results among all of the IEEE's over 50 technical
journals. )
- The Baker prize paper was also ranked in the
top 10 ``most important''
papers world-wide in pure and applied mathematics from 1981-1993 in a
bibliometric analysis and survey conducted by CTWS-Leiden. It was the most
recently published paper to be so ranked.
- AACC Hugo Schuck Award for the 1994 American Control Conference
Research interests
Integrating modeling, ID, analysis and design of uncertain nonlinear
systems, with applications throughout the aerospace and process control
industries. Applications interests are motivated by the interplay
between control, dynamical systems, and design and analysis of large,
complex engineering systems. Computation in analysis and simulation,
including complexity theory to guide algorithm development.
Selected publications
- ``Guaranteed margins for LQG regulators,'' J. Doyle, IEEE Trans. on
Auto. Control (T-AC), August, 1978.
- ``Robustness with observers,'' J. Doyle and G. Stein, IEEE T-AC,
August, 1979.
- ``Multivariable feedback design: concepts for a classical/modern
synthesis,'' J. Doyle and G. Stein, IEEE T-AC, February, 1981.
- ``Analysis of feedback systems with structured uncertainty,'' J. Doyle,
IEE Proceedings, V129, Part D, No.6, November, 1982.
- ``Design examples using $\mu$-synthesis: space shuttle lateral
axis FCS during reentry,'' J. Doyle, K. Lenz, and A. Packard in
Modelling, Robustness, and Sensitivity
Reduction in Control Systems, ed. Ruth Curtain, Springer-Verlag,1987.
- ``State-space formulae for all stabilizing controllers that
satisfy an $H_{\infty$-norm bound and relations to risk sensitivity,''
K. Glover and J. Doyle, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 11, 1988.
- ``Robust control of ill-conditioned plants: high-purity
distillation,'' S. Skogestad, M. Morari, and J. Doyle, IEEE T-AC,
December, 1988 (Outstanding Paper Award Winner).
- ``State-space solutions to standard $H_2$ and $H_{\infty$ optimal
control problems,'' J. Doyle, K. Glover, P. Khargonekar, and B. Francis,
IEEE T-AC, August, 1989 (Outstanding Paper Award
Winner and Baker Prize Winner).
- `` Identification of Flexible Structures for Robust Control,''
G. Balas and J. Doyle, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June, 1990.
- Feedback Control Theory, J. Doyle, B. Francis, and
A. Tannenbaum, MacMillan, 1990.
- ``Beyond singular values and loopshapes,'' G. Stein and J. Doyle,
AIAA Journal of Guidance and Control, January, 1991.
- ``Robustness in the presence of mixed parametric uncertainty and
unmodeled dynamics,'' M.K.H. Fan, A. Tits, and J. Doyle, IEEE T-AC,
January, 1991.
- ``Model validation: a connection between robust
control and identification,'' R. Smith and J. Doyle, IEEE T-AC,
July, 1992.
- ``The complex structured singular value,'' A. Packard and J. Doyle,
Automatica, Vol. 29, No. 1 pp. 71-109, 1993.
- ``The parallel projection operator of a nonlinear feedback system,''
J. Doyle, T. Georgiou, and M. Smith, Systems and Control Letters,
Vol. 20, pp. 79-85, 1993.
- ``Linear, multivariable robust control with a $\mu$ perspective,'' A.
Packard, J. Doyle and G. Balas {\it ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems,
Measurement and Control, 50th Anniversary Issue, pp.\ 426-438, June 1993.
- ``An example of active circulation control of the unsteady
separated flow past a semiinfinite plate,'' L. Cortelezzi, L. Leonard,
and J. Doyle, J. Fluid Mech., v260 : pp 127-154, Feb., 1994.
- ``Control of lightly damped, flexible modes in the controller
crossover region,'' G. Balas and J. Doyle, J. Guid. Con. v17 (2), pp. 370-377,
Mar.., 1994.
- ''Behavioral Approach to Robustness Analysis,'' F. Paganini, R. D'Andrea and J. C. Doyle, 1994 ACC (Outstanding Paper Award Winner).
- ''H-infinity control of nonlinear systems - A convex characterization,''
IEEE TAC v40 (9), pp. 573-590, Oct., 1995.
- Robust and Optimal Control, K. Zhou, J. Doyle, and
K. Glover, Prentice-Hall, 1996.