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complete list of publications can be found in Dr. Tan's CV.
Electroactive
Polymers: Modeling, Sensing, Control, and Applications
Modeling
& Control of Hysteresis in
Smart Materials
Modeling,
Design, and Fabrication of Microsystems
Control of
Autonomous Swarms
Computation: Computational Micromagnetics / Geometric Integration
Electroactive Polymers: Modeling, Sensing,
Control, and Applications
- Y. Fang, T. Pence, X. Tan, "Nonlinear Elastic Modeling of Differential Expansion in Trilayer Conjugated Polymer
Actuators," Smart Materials and Structures, to appear,
2008
- Z. Chen, X. Tan, "A Control-oriented and
Physics-based Model for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators,"
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, to appear, 2007
- Y. Fang, X. Tan, G. Alici, "Robust
Adaptive Control of Conjugated Polymer Actuators," IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.
600-612, 2008
- E. Mbemmo, Z. Chen, S. Shatara, X. Tan, "Modeling of Biomimetic Robotic Fish Propelled by An Ionic Polymer-Metal
Composite Actuator," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Pasadena, CA, pp. 689-694, 2008
- S. Shatara, X. Tan, E. Mbemmo, N. Gingery,
"Experimental Investigation on Underwater Acoustic Ranging for
Small Robotic Fish," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Pasadena, CA, pp. 712-717, 2008
- Z. Chen, K. Kwon, X. Tan, "Integrated
IPMC/PVDF Sensory Actuator and Its Validation in Feedback Control," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,
Vol. 144, No. 2, pp. 231-241, 2008
- Y. Fang, X. Tan, G. Alici, "Redox Level-Dependent Impedance Model for Conjugated Polymer
Actuators," Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical,
Vol. 132, pp. 182-190, 2008
- Y. Fang, X. Tan, Y. Shen, N. Xi, G. Alici, "A
Scalable Model for Trilayer Conjugated Polymer Actuators and Its
Experimental Validation," Materials Science and Engineering
C: Biomimetic and Supramolecular Systems, Vol. 28, pp.
421-428, 2008
- Z. Chen, X. Tan, A. Will, C. Ziel, "A Dynamic Model
for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Sensors," Smart Materials
and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 1477-1488, 2007
- Z. Chen, Y. Shen, N. Xi, X. Tan, "Integrated
Sensing for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators Using PVDF Thin
Films," Smart Materials and Structures [Special issue on
Electroactive Polymer Materials, Invited Paper], Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.
S262-S271, 2007
- X. Tan, D. Kim, E. Goodman, M. Shahinpoor,
"A Hands-on Paradigm for EAP
Education: Undergraduates, Pre-College Students, and Beyond,"
in Y. Bar-Cohen, editor, Smart Structures and Materials 2007:
Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Proceedings of SPIE,
Vol. 6524, 2007
- X. Tan, D. Kim, N. Usher, D. Laboy, J. Jackson,
A. Kapetanovic, J. Rapai, B. Sabadus, X. Zhou, "An
Autonomous Robotic Fish for Mobile Sensing," in Proceedings
of the
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
Beijing, China, pp. 5424-5429, 2006
- Z. Chen, X. Tan, M. Shahinpoor, "Quasi-static Positioning of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite
(IPMC) Actuators," Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International
Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Monterey, CA, pp.
60-65, 2005
Modeling & Control of Hysteresis
in Smart Materials
- R. Iyer, X. Tan, "Control of Hysteretic Systems through Inverse Compensation: Inversion Algorithms, Adaptation, and Embedded
Implementation," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, to appear, 2008
- X. Tan,
O. Bennani, "Fast Inverse Compensation of
Preisach-Type Hysteresis Operators Using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays,"
in Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, pp.
2365-2370, 2008
- X. Tan, J. S. Baras, P. S. Krishnaprasad, ``Control
of Hysteresis in Smart Actuators with Application to Micropositioning'',
Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 483-492, 2005.
- R. V. Iyer, X. Tan, P. S. Krishnaprasad, ``Approximate Inversion of
the Preisach Hysteresis Operator with Application to Control of Smart
Actuators'', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.
50, No. 6, pp. 798-810, 2005.
- X. Tan, J. S. Baras, ``Adaptive Identification and Control of Hysteresis in
Smart Materials,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50,
No. 6, pp. 827-839, 2005.
- X. Tan, J. S. Baras, ``Modeling and Control of Hysteresis in Magnetostrictive
Actuators,'' Automatica, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1469-1480, 2004.
- X. Tan, Control of Smart Actuators (abstract), Ph. D. dissertation, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD, September 2002.
- X. Tan, J. S. Baras, ``Optimal Control of Hysteresis in Smart Actuators: A
Viscosity Solutions Approach'', in the Springer series LNCS 2289,
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation
and Control, pp. 451-464, 2002.
- X. Tan, R. Venkataraman, P. S. Krishnaprasad,
``Control of Hysteresis: Theory and Experimental
Results'', in Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Modeling, Signal
Processing, and Control in Smart Structures, V. S. Rao, Editor, Proceedings
of SPIE, Vol. 4326, pp. 101-112, Newport Beach, CA, 2001.
Modeling,
Design, and Fabrication of Microsystems
- Y. Fang, X. Tan, "A
Dynamic JKR Model with Application to Vibrational Release in
Micromanipulation," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, pp.
1341-1346, 2006
- X. Tan, A. Modafe, R. Ghodssi, "Measurement and Modeling of Dynamic Rolling Friction in Linear Microball Bearings,"
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 128,
No. 4, pp. 891-898, 2006
- X. Tan, A. Modafe, R. Hergert,
N. Ghalichechian, B. Shapiro, J. S. Baras, R. Ghodssi, "Vision-Based Microtribological Characterization of Linear Microball Bearings",
in Proceedings of ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology
Conference (Special Symposium on Contact Phenomena in MEMS), Long Beach,
CA, Paper TRIB2004-64334, 2004.
- M. Khbeis, X. Tan, G. Metze,
R. Ghodssi, ``Microfabrication of a Pressure Sensor Array Using 3D Integration
Technology'' (abstract), oral presentation at the American Vacuum Society
50th International Symposium, Baltimore, MD 2003.
Control of Autonomous Swarms
- X. Tan, "Self-organization of Autonomous Swarms via
Langevin Equation," in Proceedings of the 46th IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, pp. 1435-1440,
2007
- W. Xi, X. Tan, J. S. Baras, "Gibbs
Sampler-based Coordination of Autonomous Swarms," Automatica,
Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 1107-1119, 2006
- W. Xi, X. Tan, J. S. Baras, "Gibbs
Sampler-based Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: Convergence
Analysis," in Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague,
Czech Republic, 2005
- X. Tan, W. Xi, J.
S. Baras, ``Numerical Study on Joint Quantization and
Control under Block-Coding,'' in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 4515-4520,
2004.
- J. S. Baras, X. Tan, ``Control of Autonomous Swarms Using Gibbs Sampling,''
in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 4752-4757, 2004.
Computation: Computational Micromagnetics / Geometric
Integration