Department of Mechanical Engineering

Atul Kelkar

Professor

2018 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-0788
e-mail:akelkar@iastate.edu

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Personal Page

Education
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1993
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1990
Univeristy of Poona, Pune, India, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1984

Areas of Interest
Control theory
robust and nonlinear control
acoustic noise control
vibration control
flexible multibody dynamics
integrated design via multi-objective optimization
robotics
neural networks

Recent Publications
S. M. Joshi, D. E. Cox, and A. G. Kelkar: 'Robust control of uncertain systems via norm- and sector-bounded LQG-type controllers', International Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 113(2):269--282, May 2002.

F. Andreev, D. Auckley, S. V. Gosavi, L. Kapitanski, A. G. Kelkar, and W. N. White. Matching, linear systems, and the ball and beam. Automatica, 38(12):2147-2152, 2002.

A. G. Kelkar and H. R. Pota: Book review: Signal processing for active control, by Stephen Elliott. International Journal of Noise Control Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 3, May-June, 2002.

H. R. Pota and A. G. Kelkar: Modelling and control of acoustic ducts. ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustic, 123(1):2--10, January 2001.

P. Krishnaswami and A.G. Kelkar: Optimal design of controlled multibody dynamic systems for performance, robustness, and tolerancing. Engineering with Computers, 2003 (to appear).