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PROF DRAGAN NESIC



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIORIAL FELLOW
Email:
Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/staff/dragan/
Work: 83445357
Fax: 83446678
Level: 02
Building: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Control systems engineering Nonlinear control, Networked control systems, Quantized control, Extremum seeking control, Sampled-data systems, Hybrid Systems United States of America, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Italy University of Rome, La Sapienza Exchange, Research
United Kingdom Imperial College London Exchange, Research
Belgium Universite Catholique de Louvain Exchange, Research
United States University of California - Santa Barbara Exchange, Research
United States Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Exchange, Research
France CNRS Unite Mixte De Recherche Exchange, Research
Germany Universitaet Bayreuth Exchange, Research
United States Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Research
Italy University of Florence Research
United States University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Exchange, Research
France Supelec Exchange, Research

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Russian Read and Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE) 01-Jan-2008
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Australia (FIEAUST) 11-Apr-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Distinguished Lecturer, Control Systems Society, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Control Systems Society 15-Jan-2008
Other (Award) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Fellowship 30-Oct-2003
Scholarship French Department of Research 10-Oct-2005

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
New research directions in the area of sampled-data systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH SATURATION AND TIME-DELAY Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2005
Finite-dimensional Sampled-data Control of Nonlinear Spatially Distributed Parameter Systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
EFFICIENT AND PRACTICAL HYDROGEN FUELLED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES - VIC Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT) 20/08/2007

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 2008

Journal Articles

  • On the choice of dither in extremum seeking systems: A case study


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1446-1450
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  • Decentralized control design of interconnected chains of integrators: A case study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2171-2178
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  • 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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  • Non-linear stable inversion-based output tracking control for a spherical inverted pendulum
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Control
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 116-133
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  • Non-local stabilization of a spherical inverted pendulum
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Control
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1035-1053
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  • On l2 stabilization of linear systems with quantized control
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 399-404
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Unified Approach to Analysis and Design of Networked and Quantized Control Systems
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2008)
    Conference Publication: 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2008)
    Page numbers: cxiii-cxxii
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Design of Multiple Actuator-Link Control Systems with Packet Dropouts
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 6642-6647
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Input-to-state stabilization of nonlinear systems with quantized feedback
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 12480-12485
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Nonlinear Gain l2 Stability of Nonlinear Feedback Systems with Quantized Measurements
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2008)
    Conference Publication: 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2008)
    Page numbers: 4-9
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • On Stability Properties of Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems by Semi-definite Time-Varying Lyapunov Candidates
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 1123-1128
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • On mismatch between initializations at coder/decoder in quantized control
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 14348-14353
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Sampled-Data Output Feedback Control of Distributed Parameter Systems via Semi-discretization in Space
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 7749-7754
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A Lyapunov Proof of an Improved Maximum Allowable Transfer Interval for Networked Control Systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 892-897
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  • Input-to-State Stabilization of Linear Systems With Quantized State Measurements
    Year: 2007
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 767-781
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  • Path-following for nonlinear systems with unstable zero dynamics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 481-487
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  • Quadratic stabilization of linear networked control systems via simultaneous protocol and controller design
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1145-1155
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  • Stability of wireless and wireline networked control systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1615-1630
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Path-following in the presence of unstable zero dynamics: An averaging solution for nonlinear systems


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 American Control Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference
    Page numbers: 4500-4505
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Way point tracking of a spherical inverted pendulum


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation
    Conference Publication: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation
    Page numbers: 654-659
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • A note on robustness of linear spatially distributed parameter systems and their numerical approximations
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3531-3536
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • A note on the control of a spherical inverted pendulum
    Year: 2007
    Event name: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Conference Publication: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Page numbers: 838-843
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Oxford)
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  • A trajectory based approach for robust stability properties of infinite-dimensional systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Conference Publication: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Page numbers: 421-426
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Oxford)
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  • A unified approach to controller design for systems with quantization and time scheduling
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3939-3944
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Further results on robustness of linear control systems with quantized feedback
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 American Control Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1015-1020
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Further results on stability of networked control systems: a Lyapunov approach
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 American Control Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1741-1746
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Input-to-state & input-output stability of networked control systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3321-3326
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Networked control systems: An emulation approach to controller design
    Year: 2007
    Event name: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Conference Publication: NOLCOS 2007: 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    Page numbers: 87-94
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Oxford)
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  • Observer design for linear networked control systems using matrix inequalities
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3315-3320
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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