Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.I.T. September 1991
M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, M.I.T. June 1988
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, National Technical, University of Athens June 1986
Academic Positions
Professor, University of Illinois, August 2004 - present, AAE (100%); CSL (0%); ECE affiliate
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, August 1997 - August 2004, AAE (100%); CSL (0%); ECE affiliate
Assistant Professor, MIE, November 1993 - August 1997, ECE (0%)
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, August 1991 - August 1997, AAE (100%); CSL (0%)
Research Interests
Application of distributed control and estimation theory: UAVs, power, building, traffic, infrastructure, telescopic and atomic force microscopy systems
Analysis and synthesis of time varying and adaptive systems
Control and coordination of distributed and multi-agent systems
Robust and multi-objective control and estimation
Research Areas
Decentralized and distributed control
Networked control systems
Reliable and robust control
Chapters in Books
P.G. Voulgaris, “Optimal control design under structural and communication constraints,” Multidisciplinary Research in Control: The Mohammed Dahleh Symposium 2002 (Eds. L. Giarre' and B. Bamieh,) Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 289, Springer-Verlag, pp. 47-60, 2003.
P.G. Voulgaris, “Control under structural constraints: An input-output approach,” Robustness in Identification and Control (Eds. A. Garulli et al.,) Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 245, Springer-Verlag, London, June 1999.
P.G. Voulgaris and M.A. Dahleh, "Optimal and robust controllers for periodic and multirate systems," Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. 74, Academic Press, Inc., 1996.
Selected Articles in Journals
A. Sarwar, P. G. Voulgaris and S. Salapaka, "Identication of spatiotemporally invariant systems for control adaptation," Automatica, Volume 48, Issue 9, September 2012, Pages 2079-2092.
A. Sarwar, P.G. Voulgaris and S. Salapaka, "On l stability and performance of spatially invariant systems," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control", Volume 21, Issue 9, June 2011, Pages: 957-973.
A. Sarwar, P.G. Voulgaris and S. Salapaka, "Modeling and distributed control of an electrostatically actuated microcantilever array", Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 17, No. 8, 1195-1210, July 2011.
Touri, P.G. Voulgaris and C. Hadjicostis, "Algorithmic design of perfectly reconstructing equalizers,Int. J. Systems, Control and Communications", Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2/3, 2010, 238-255.
A. Sarwar, P.G. Voulgaris and S. Salapaka, "On l and l2 robustness of spatially invariant systems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control", Vol 20, Issue 6, April 2010, 607-622.
S. Jiang and P.G. Voulgaris, "A convex optimization approach to signal reconstruction over switching networks", Automatica, 45 (2009) 2784-2793.
S. Jiang and P. G. Voulgaris, "Performance optimization of switched systems: a model matching approach", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 9, 2058-2071, September 2009.
S. Jiang, P. G. Voulgaris, L.E. Holloway and L.A. Thompson, "Distributed control of large segmented telescopes", Journal of Vibration and Control, 15(6): 923-949, 2009.
R. Touri, P.G. Voulgaris and C. Hadjicostis, "Joint preprocessing and feedback strategies for perfectly reconstructing equalizers", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Vol. 26, Issue 4, May 2008, Page(s):596-608.
S. Jiang, P.G. Voulgaris and N. Neogi, "Distributed control over structured and packet-dropping networks", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Vol. 18, Issue 14, September 2008, Pages: 1389-1408.
V. Sharma, M. Savchenko, E. Frazzoli and P. G. Voulgaris, "Time complexity of sensor-based vehicle routing", International Journal of Robotics Research, 26(3):255--272, March 2007.
P.G. Voulgaris, C. Hadjicostis and R. Touri, "A robust control approach for perfect reconstruction of digital signals", IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing, Vol. 55, Issue 9, Sept. 2007, Page(s):4444-4457.
S. Jiang, P.G. Voulgaris and N. Neogi, "Failure-robust distributed controller architectures", in press, International Journal of Control, Vol. 80, No. 9, September 2007, 1367-1378.
S. Jiang and P.G. Voulgaris, "Design of distributed controllers with constrained and noisy links", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 16:891-912, December 2006.
B. Bamieh and P.G. Voulgaris, "A convex characterization of distributed control problems in spatially invariant systems with communication constraints", Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 54: 575-583, June 2005.
V. Sharma, P.G. Voulgaris and E. Frazzoli, "Aircraft autopilot analysis and envelope protection for operation under icing conditions", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol.27:3, 454-465, May-June 2004.
X. Qi, M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Khammash, "Structured optimal control with multiple objectives: A convex solution", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 49: 10 , 1623-1640, Oct. 2004.
P.G. Voulgaris, G. Bianchini and B. Bamieh, "Optimal decentralized controllers for spatially distributed systems", Systems and Control Letters, 50:347-361, 2003.
P.G. Voulgaris, "Optimal control of systems with delayed observation sharing patterns via input-output methods", Systems and Control Letters, 50:51-64, 2003.
S. Moon, L. A. Bergman and P. G. Voulgaris, "Sliding Mode Control of a Cable-Stayed Bridge Subjected to Seismic Excitation," ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 129, 71-78, 2003.
P.G. Voulgaris, "Optimal decentralized control design with disturbance decoupling", Kybernetika, Vol 38, No 2, pp. 197-208, 2002.
L.E. Pena and P.G. Voulgaris, "Limits of performance of a tail-less fighter in the presence of saturation", Journal of Vibration and Control, 7: 1213-1236, 2001.
J. Aubrecht and P.G. Voulgaris, "Minimization of the peak-to-peak gain in periodic systems under state feedback", ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 123, pp. 10-20, 2001.
P.G. Voulgaris and X. Chen, "A Taylor series approach for nonlinear control application", Journal of Vibration and Control, 7:51:72, 2001.
J.W. Melody, T. Basar, W.R. Perkins and P. G. Voulgaris, "Parameter identification for in-flight detection of aircraft icing", Control Engineering Practice, 8 (2000), 985-1001.
Z. Chen and P.G. Voulgaris, "Decentralized design for integrated flight/propulsion control of aircraft", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol 23, No 6, November-December 2000.
J. Aubrecht and P.G. Voulgaris, "Minimization of the peak-to-peak gain in multirate systems under state feedback", Kybernetika, Vol 35, No. 5, pp. 55-586, 1999.
E.A. Johnson, P.G. Voulgaris and L.A. Bergman, "Multiobjective H2/l1 structural control of the Notre Dame building model benchmark", Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 27, pp. 1165-1187, 1998.
M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh and P.G. Voulgaris, "MIMO optimal control design: The interplay between the H2 and the l1 norms", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 43, No. 10, pp. 1374-1388, October 1998.
M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh and P.G. Voulgaris, "Mixed objective control synthesis: optimal l1 / H2 control, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization", Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 1672-1689, September 1997.
M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Dahleh , "SISO controller design to minimize a positive combination of the l1 and the H2 norms", Automatica, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 387-391, 1997.
R.V. Field Jr., P.G. Voulgaris and L.A. Bergman, "Methods to compute probabilistic measures of robustness for structural systems", Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 447-463, 1996.
M.V. Salapaka, P.G. Voulgaris and M. Dahleh, "Controller design to optimize a composite performance measure", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 1391-1398, September 1996.
P.G. Voulgaris, "Optimal l-inf to l-inf estimation for periodic systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, September 1996.
R.V. Field Jr., P.G. Voulgaris and L.A. Bergman, "Probabilistic stability robustness of structural systems", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 122, No. 10, pp. 1012-1022, October 1996.
S. Talwar, N.S. Namachchivaya and P.G. Voulgaris, "A systematic normal form approach to feedback linearize a class of nonlinear systems," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 118, No. 2, pp. 201-211, 1996.
S.R. Warren, P.G. Voulgaris and L.A. Bergman, "Robust control of a slewing beam system", Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 251-272, 1995.
P.G. Voulgaris, "Optimal H2 / l1 control via duality theory", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-40, No. 11, pp. 1881-1888, November 1995.
P.G. Voulgaris, "On optimal l-inf to l-inf filtering", Automatica, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 489-495, 1995.
P.G. Voulgaris and M.A. Dahleh, "On l-inf to l-inf performance of slowly varying systems", Systems and Control Letters, 24, pp. 243-249, 1995.
P.G. Voulgaris, M.A. Dahleh and L.S. Valavani, "Robust adaptive control: A slowly varying systems approach", Automatica, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 1994, pp. 252-263.
P.G. Voulgaris, "Control of asynchronous sampled-data systems",IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 1451-1455.
P.G. Voulgaris, M.A. Dahleh and L.S. Valavani, "H2 optimal controllers for periodic and multirate systems", Automatica, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 1994, pp. 252-263.
P.G. Voulgaris and B. Bamieh, "Optimal and H2 control of hybrid multirate systems", Systems and Control Letters, No. 20, pp. 249-261, 1993.
M.A. Dahleh, P.G. Voulgaris, L. S. Valavani, "Optimal and robust controllers for periodic and multirate systems", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-37, No. 1, pp. 90-99, January 1992.
P.G. Voulgaris and L.S. Valavani, "High performance linear-quadratic and designs for a super maneuverable aircraft", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 14, No. 1, January-February 1991, pp. 157-165.
Journal Editorships
Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Dynamic systems, Measurement and Control, 1998- 2001
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 1997-1999
Professional Societies
Member, International Program Committee, 19th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems, Corfu, Greece, June 2011.
Member of IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, 2009-
Member, International Program Committee, 8th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation., Patras, Greece, July 2000.
Member, International Program Committee, 5th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems, Pafos, Cyprus, July 1997
1994-2002
Member, Dynamics of Structures and Systems Committee, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
Control Division 1995-2001
Chairman, technical panel in adaptive and optimal control, ASME Dynamics Systems and
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Member, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Member, New York Academy of Sciences
Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Research Honors
IEEE Fellow (2011)
ADGAS Visiting Chaired Professor, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2008-10)
UIUC Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research (1996)
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1995)
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (1993)