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DR PETER DOWER



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: SENIOR LECTURER (LEVEL C)
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Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/pdower/index.html
Work: 8344 6711
Fax: 8344 6678
Room: 312
Level: 03
Building: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering University of Newcastle 31-Dec-1994
PhD Engineering The Australian National University 31-Dec-1999

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE) 01-Jan-1994

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Nonlinear systems with disturbances: analysis, controller design & tradeoffs Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Complexity-manageable methodologies and efficient computational tools for analysis and design of large-scale systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Managing Australia's water resources: Automated demand scheduling and supply control systems for large scale irrigation networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009
CHARACTERIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS Chief Investigator US DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Special Grant 06/07/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A note on the stability of single frequency laser diode models
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1-20 (Paper 175101)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Extremum Seeking Control of Cascaded Raman Optical Amplifiers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 396-407
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A dynamic programming approach to the approximation of nonlinear L-2-gain
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Optimal refractive index design for an optical fibre-based evanescent field sensor
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 634-645
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  • Refractive index design and validation for evanescent field power maximization in optical fibre sensors
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Optics Communications
    Volume: 279
    Page numbers: 303-312
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Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fiber evanescent field power maximization via refractive index design


    Year: 2006
    Event name: 31st Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Meeting of the Australian Optical Society
    Conference Publication: ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 66-68
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • An application of extremum seeking in cascaded optical amplifier control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings
    Page numbers: 4472-4477
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • On cascaded Raman amplifier control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 4-6
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • On linear control of backward pumped Raman amplifiers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Conference Publication: Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Page numbers: 547-552
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • On output power regulation in backward pumped Raman amplifiers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 57-59
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Taking the physical layer seriously in ASTNs
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 10-12
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Transient control in ASONS
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A unified approach to controller design for achieving ISS and related properties
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1681-1697
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  • Analysis of input-to-state stability for discrete time nonlinear systems via dynamic programming
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 2055-2065
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A numerical optimal control approach to the design of an optical fibre-based evanescent field.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Optimal refractive index profile design for a pair of optical fibre-based devices
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05
    Conference Publication: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 48-53
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An optimal control problem arising in the design of optical fibre sensors
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 2742-2747
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • An optimization problem arising in optical fibre sensor design
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: CD Proceedings ACOFT/AOS Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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  • Measurement feedback controller design to achieve input to state stability
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 2515-2520
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Optimal stopping and hard terminal constraints applied to a missile guidance problem
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 5th Asian Control Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: The proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1810-1817
    Publisher: ACPA Asian Control Professors' Association(Seoul)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A Variational Inequality for Measurement Feedback Almost Dissipative Control
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-38
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A max-plus affine power method for approximation of a class of mixed L²/L∞ value functions
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 2573-2578
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Analysis of input to state stability for discrete time nonlinear systems via dynamic programming
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 5068-5073
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • On practical input to state stabilization for nonlinear discrete-time systems: a dynamic programming approach
    Year: 2003
    Event name: European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineering(Hertford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Worst Case Power Generating Capabilities of Nonlinear Systems
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 13-41
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Dynamic Programming Equation for Measurement Feedback Almost-Dissipative Control
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Information, Decision and Control 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information, Decision and Control
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 341-346
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • A Remark on a Power Gain Inequality for Interconnected Systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Decision and Control 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference, Decision & Control
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 145-150
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • A Variational Inequality for a Class of Almost-Dissipative Measurement Feedback Control Problems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1935-1941
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • An Optimal Stopping Problem Arising in the Analysis of Almost-Dissipative Systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2002
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3982-3987
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Tapered Air-silica Microstructures for Evanescent Field Sensing
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Page numbers: 125-127
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A note on input-to-state stability and averaging of systems with inputs
    Year: 2001
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1760-1765
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Optimal Controller for Reducting Limit Cycle Behaviour in Nonlinear Systems with Disturbances


    Year: 2001
    Event name: 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2752-2757
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Evanescent Field Analysis of Air-Silica Microstructure Waveguides
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2001
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2001
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 709-710
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Numerical Computation of Anti-Stablizing Storage Functions for Nonlinear Systems with Power Gain
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2001
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 436-441
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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