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Voulgaris

Petros G. Voulgaris

Professor

voulgari@uiuc.edu		 Return to: Faculty
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
300 Talbot Lab
217-244-0961
217-333-1368		 306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL  61801		  
Research Areas
His research interests include robust and optimal control and estimation, structured and distributed control, networks and control, and applications of advanced control and estimation methods to engineering practice.

View additional information about Professor Voulgaris. Petros G. Voulgaris was born in Athens, Greece, on January 1963. He received his Diploma of Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1986, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. Since August 1991, he has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a professor. He also holds joint appointments with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Voulgaris is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (1993) and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1995). He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

Education:

  • Ph.D.    Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.I.T.    September 1991
  • S.M.    Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.I.T.    June 1988
  • Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, National Technical, University of Athens, June 1986

Academic Positions:

  • Assistant Professor, University of Illinois    August, 1991-August, 1997
  • AAE (100%); CSL (0%), MIE (0%); ECE (0%)
  • Associate Professor, University of Illinois    August, 1997- August, 2004
  • AAE (100%); CSL (0%); ECE affiliate
  • Professor, University of Illinois    August, 2004- present
  • AAE (100%); CSL (0%); ECE affiliate

Major Honors and Awards:

  • UIUC Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 1996
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1995
  • National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993

Selected Publications:

  • P.G. Voulgaris, "Optimal H2 / l1  control via duality theory," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-40, No. 11, pp. 1881-1888, November 1995.
  • M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Dahleh, "Controller design to optimize a composite performance measure," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 1391-1398, September 1996.
  • M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh and P.G. Voulgaris, "MIMO optimal control design:  The interplay between the H2 and the l1 norms," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 1374-1388, October 1998.
  • P.G. Voulgaris, G. Bianchini and B. Bamieh, "Optimal decentralized controllers for spatially distributed systems," Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 50, pp. 347-361, 2003.
  • X. Qi, M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Khammash, "Structured optimal control with multiple objectives: A convex solution,"  IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 1623 - 1640, October 2004.