Associate Professor, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
| chengyu.cao@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | (860) 486-3487 |
| Mailing Address | School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Rd. U-3139, Storrs, CT 06269 |
| Campus | Storrs |
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Brief Bio
Dr. Chengyu Cao joined the Mechanical Engineering Department in 2008. Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. He earned his B.S. degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from the Boston University in 1995 and 1999, respectively.
Dr. Cao’s research is in the area of dynamics and control, adaptive and intelligent systems, and mechatonics with focus on unmanned systems and aerospace applications. He is also interested in bio-mechanics, sensor and actuator networks, control of flexible structures, and fluid/combustion control. His current research projects are supported by NASA and Pratt & Whitney. He has over 80 publications in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
dynamics and control,
adaptive and intelligent systems,
mechatronics, with a focus on unmanned systems and aerospace applications
| ℒ1 Adaptive Control Theory: Guaranteed Robustness with Fast Adaptation
N Hovakimyan, C Cao
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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| Design and Analysis of a Novel |
| Adaptive Control Architecture
C Cao, N Hovakimyan
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 55 (2), 480-487
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| Guaranteed transient performance with L1 adaptive controller for systems with unknown time-varying parameters and bounded disturbances: Part I
C Cao, N Hovakimyan
2007 American Control Conference, 3925-3930
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| Coordinated path following for time-critical missions of multiple UAVs via L1 adaptive output feedback controllers
I Kaminer, O Yakimenko, V Dobrokhodov, A Pascoal, N Hovakimyan, ...
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, 6409
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| Adaptive Output Feedback Controller for Systems of Unknown Dimension
C Cao, N Hovakimyan
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 53 (3), 815-821
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| Flight test of an L1 adaptive controller on the NASA AirSTAR flight test vehicle
I Gregory, E Xargay, C Cao, N Hovakimyan
AIAA guidance, navigation, and control conference, 8015
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| Parameter convergence in nonlinearly parameterized systems
C Cao, AM Annaswamy, A Kojic
IEEE Transactions on automatic control 48 (3), 397-412
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| L1 adaptive controller for multi-input multi-output systems in the presence of nonlinear unmatched uncertainties
E Xargay, N Hovakimyan, C Cao
Proceedings of the 2010 American control conference, 874-879
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| L1 adaptive controller for a class of systems with unknown nonlinearities: Part I
C Cao, N Hovakimyan
2008 American Control Conference, 4093-4098
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| Novel L1 adaptive control methodology for aerial refueling with guaranteed transient performance
J Wang, VV Patel, C Cao, N Hovakimyan, E Lavretsky
Journal of guidance, control, and dynamics 31 (1), 182-193
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| ℒ1-Adaptive MPPI Architecture for Robust and Agile Control of Multirotors
J Pravitra, KA Ackerman, C Cao, N Hovakimyan, EA Theodorou
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …
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| Time-critical cooperative control of multiple autonomous vehicles: Robust distributed strategies for path-following control and time-coordination over dynamic communications …
E Xargay, V Dobrokhodov, I Kaminer, AM Pascoal, N Hovakimyan, C Cao
IEEE Control Systems Magazine 32 (5), 49-73
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