Antonis-Ioannis Vardulakis
Head of the Computer Science and Numerical Analysis Section
Department Mathematics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Panepistimioupolis, Thessaloniki 54 006, Greece
Phone: +30 2310 997951Fax: +30 2310 997951 E-mail: avardula@math.auth.gr
See also: http://anadrasis.math.auth.gr
Short Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 27 June 1946
Higher Education and Degrees
BSc (Physics), University of Athens, Greece.
MSc (Theory and Practice of Automatic Control), Control Systems Centre, The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), U.K.
PhD, Control Systems Centre, The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), U.K.
Current Appointment
Professor of Control Theory, Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (since 1984)
Previous Appointments
Research Associate, Control and Management Systems Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 1978-1984.
Research Assistant, Department of Computing and Control, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, 1975-1978.
Visiting Appointments
Brown University, University of Southern California, City University.
Memberships
Member of the IEEE, Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Other
Founding member of the European Union Control Association (EUCA).
Chair of the IEEE Action Group on Symbolic Methods for CACSD, part of the "IEEE Technical Committee on CACSD"
Distinction:
Prize «The Embeirikeion Award», awarded to Greek scientist for achievements and advancements in Engineering and Mathematics by the Embeirikeion Foundation.
Teaching
Lecturing:
Classical Control Theory (for 6st semester Mathematics students)
Modern Control Theory (for 7nd semester Mathematics students)
Discrete time Signals and Systems (for 1st semester post-graduate students)
Multivariable Control (for 2st semester post-graduate students)
Research Statement
Research Interests:
Mathematical systems theory, multivariable control, numerical and symbolic methods for analysis and design of control systems and digital filters, signal processing, computer aided analysis and design of control systems, signals and filters, polynomial and rational matrix theory.
Current Grant:
Algorithm Development and Software Implementation via the Symbolic Computation Package Mathematicaâ, for Computer Aided Design of Control System, a project cooperation agreement with Wolfram Research Inc., 100 Trade Centre Drive, Champaign IL, U.S.A. funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Development of the Greek Ministry Development.
Some Recent Publications
Papers:
· E.N. Antoniou and A.I.G. Vardulakis and S. Vologinidis, “Numerical computation of minimal polynomial bases, a generalized resultant approach”, Linear Algebra and Applications 405, 2005, 264—278.
· E.N. Antoniou and A.I.G. Vardulakis, “On the computation of proper pole placing stabilizing compensators for strictly proper plants”, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 22, 2005, no. 1, 1225.
· P.N. Karampetakis, S. Vologiannidis and A.I.G. Vardulakis, A new notion of equivalence for discrete time AR- representations, I. J. Control, Vol., 77, 2004, no. 6, 584—597
· A.I.G. Vardulakis and E.N. Antoniou, Fundamental equivalence of discrete time AR-representations, I.J. Control, Vol. 76, No. 11, pp. 1078-1088, 2003
· P.N. Karampetakis and A.I.G. Vardulakis, On the reduction of a polynomial matrix model of a linear multivariable system to generalized state-space form, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Vol. 17, pp. 1-42, 2000.
· P. Tzekis, P.N. Karampetakis and A.I.G. Vardulakis, On the division of polynomial matrices, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Vol. 17, pp. 1-42, 1999.
· E.N. Antoniou and A.I.G. Vardulakis, A note on the action of constant pseudostate feedback on the internal properness of an ARMA model, Automatica, Vol. 35, pp. 1453-1456, 1999.
· A.I.G. Vardulakis, E.N. Antoniou and P.N. Karampetakis, On the soilution and impulsive behaviour of polynomial matrix descriptions of free linear multivariable systems, International Journal of Control, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp 215-228, 1999
· E.N. Antoniou, A.I.G. Vardulakis and P.N. Karampetakis, A spectral characterization of the behavior of discrete time AR-representations over a finite time interval, Kybernetica, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp 555-564, 1998.
· N.P. Karampetakis, A.C. Pugh, A.I.G. Vardulakis and G.E. Hayton, An Extension of Wolovich’s definition of equivalence of linear systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-41, N0. 2, pp. 228-232, 1996
Book:
· LINEAR MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL, Algebraic analysis and Synthesis methods, J. Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, England, 1991
see
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471928593/qid%3D990006425/026- 7285903-7055603
Last update: 30th November 2006
Author: Antonis-Ioannis Vardulakis. E-mail: avardula@math.auth.gr
