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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Editorial on Our Article

Our article [1] published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is being noticed and is gaining traction. A journal editorial featuring our article was published by Rizi, Hamedani, and Cereda: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.202008-3158ED.

[1] Bodduluri S, Puliyakote AK, Nakhmani A, Charbonnier J-P, Reinhardt JM, Bhatt SB. CT based Airway Surface Area to Volume Ratio for Phenotyping Airway Remodeling in Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med [online ahead of print] 05 August 2020; https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.202004-0951OC.

Modern Control Textbook was Published by McGraw Hill

Publication Date
April 10, 2020
Format
Hardback, 192 pages
ISBN
9781260459241

Modern Control: State-Space Analysis And Design Methods

by Arie Nakhmani

This concise textbook (less than 200 pages) offers hands-on coverage of modern control system engineering while showing the best strategies for solving complex problems, providing self-evaluation questions, and step-by-step analysis and design procedures. Modern Control: State-Space Analysis and Design Methods book features start-to-finish design projects as well as online snippets of MATLAB code with simulations. The essential mathematics is presented along with fully worked-out examples in gradually increasing degrees of difficulty. Readers will receive a “just-in-time” math background from a comprehensive appendix and get step-by-step descriptions of the latest analysis and design techniques.

MATLAB code is available here: CODE.ZIP

Coverage includes:

An introduction to control systems
State-space representations
Pole placement via state feedback
State estimators (observers)
Non-minimal canonical forms
Linearization
Lyapunov stability
Linear quadratic regulators (LQR)
Symmetric root locus (SRL)
Kalman filter
Linear quadratic gaussian control (LQG)

ERRATA

Faculty Development Grant Poster Session

We have participated in the FDGP poster session.

The BRAIN Initiative Grant is Funded

We have got one of the most prestigious grants for brain research. Congratulations to Dr. Harrison Walker from the Neurology Department, who is the PI on this grant, and our team.
For more information:
UAB receives prestigious BRAIN Initiative grant for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease

Our Lab Work with Drones was Featured in UAB Magazine and other Media

Our work was featured in the following media:

National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2016

Twenty UAB honors students presented their research at NCUR – National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Our student Jacob Laurel presented two papers: A High-Performance Computing Approach to Uncertainty in SWEDD Diagnostics (work mentored by Prof. Marstrander) and An Adaptive Kernel-Growing Medial Filter for Ultra-High Noise Image Reconstruction (work mentored by Dr. Nakhmani). Congratulations Jacob!

Our Team Won AEM Competition Dream Phase

Ali Darwish, UAB/UAH PhD Computer Engineering student and Dr, Arie Nakhmani are part of a team from UAB, UAH, Auburn University, and George Washington University who proposed to inspect Alabama’s dams using a high tech approach using drones, connected sensors, and cloud technology. The team won the first place prize in the dream phase of $9,000 for their proposal named “One crack away from a disaster“.