GERALD COOK

POSITION: Earle C. Williams ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringGeorge Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030Telephone: (703) 993-1699 E-mail gcook@gmu.edu

PERSONAL: Born - Hazard, KentuckyCitizenship - U.S.A.Marital Status - MarriedHealth - ExcellentHome Address - 4821 Fox Chapel Road, Fairfax, VA 22030Home Telephone - (703) 385-8094

EDUCATION:

Sc. D. (electrical engineering) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965

M. S. (electrical engineering) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962

B. S. (electrical engineering) Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1961 (with honors)

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Secret (latest update 2004)

EXPERIENCE:

Earle C. Williams Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1985- Chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 1990-1998

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Chairman, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1981-1985

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Visiting Professor, Control Engineering Laboratory, 1979-1980Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Professor and Director, Computer and Control Laboratory, 1978-1979; 1980-1981Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1973-1981Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1973University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

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EXPERIENCE : ( cont’d)

Research Associate - F.J. Seiler Research Lab., 1965-1966Assistant Professor of Astronautics, 1966-1968U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1966-1968University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Guidance Analyst - Apollo Project, 1963-1965M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CURRENT AREAS OF EMPHASIS:

Modern Controls, Robotics, Estimation and Identification, Landmine Detection

CONSULTING:

Kaman Corporation, Nuclear Division, Philip Morris Tobacco Company,Melpar Corporation, US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center,Babcock and Wilcox Research Center, DEES Hyraulic Corporation,QUEST Research Corporation, Omnimii Incorporated, TASC, TRW, SAIC, Sverdrup Technology Inc., Alion Corp.

ADVISORY BOARD:

Committee of 100, College of Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

SOCIETIES, HONORS AND AWARDS:

Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersIEEE Centennial Medal, 1984Mittelmann Achievement Award, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 1989Department of Army, Certificate of Achievement, 1981 Recipient of Eta Kappa Nu Teaching Award, Virginia Chapter, UVA, 1974Outstanding Research Award, Southeastern Section, ASEE, 1971Technical Achievement Award, USAF Office of Aerospace Research, 1968Junior Officer of the Year, F.J. Seiler Res. Lab., US Air Force Academy, 1967

National Science Foundation Fellow, 1961-1964Listed in Who's Who in AmericaListed in American Men and Women of ScienceListed in Who's Who in EngineeringListed in Who's Who in American Education

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Listed in International Scholars DirectoryListed in Who's Who in the South and SouthwestListed in Personalities of the SouthListed in Community Leaders and Noteworthy AmericansListed in Who's Who in Technology TodayListed in Directory of World ResearchersListed in Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and TechnologyListed in Personalities of AmericaListed in Men of AchievementMember Sigma XiMember Eta Kappa NuMember Phi Kappa PhiMember Tau Beta PiMember Omicron Delta Kappa

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Registered Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia Life Member, Administrative Committee, IEEE-IES

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 1983-1990President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 1981-1983

Vice President for Technical Activities, IEEE-IES, 1978-1981Secretary, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 1974-1977Chairman, Education Committee, IEEE-IES, 1976-1979Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on IES, 1973-1979Chairman, Central VA. Section IEEE, 1976-1977Chairman, Automatic Control Chapter, Central VA Section IEEE, 1969-70Branch Counselor, UVA Student Chapter IEEE, 1969-1971

RESEARCH SPONSORS:

NASA, NSF, NIH, Naval Surface Weapons Laboratory, Army Engineers Topographic Laboratory, Ballistic Missile Defense System Command, General Electric, Teledyne Avionics, Sperry Corporate Technology Center, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, Night Vision Laboratory of US Army

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Gerald Cook, Mobile Robots: Navigation, Control and Remote Sensing, John Wiley and Sons Inc, Hoboken, NJ, June 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-63021-1, 307 pages

PUBLICATIONS IN TECHNICAL JOURNALS:

Kansal, Smriti and Cook, G. “Modeling Uneven Terrain for Geo-location of Mines Detected via Vehicular Mounted Sensors” International Journal on Systems and Science, Vol. 36, No. 9 (15 July, 2005) pp559-571

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Kansal, Smriti and Cook, G. “Use of Fiducials and Un-surveyed Landmarks as Geo-location Tools in Vehicular Based Landmine Search” IEEE Trans. On Geoscience and Remote Sensing Vol. 43, No. 6 (June ’05) pp 1432-1439

Jakkidi, S. and Cook, G. “Landmine Geo-location; Dynamic Modeling and Target Tracking” IEEE Trans on Aerospace and Electronics, Vol.41 No. 1 (Jan. ’05) pp 51-59

Kansal, S. and Cook, G. “Use of a Sinusouidal Series for Modeling Discrete Windowed Data as an Alternative to Interpolation” IEEE Trans on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Aug '04) pp. 903-909.

Hartley, T. T., Veilette, R. J. and Cook, G., "Techniques in Deadbeat and One-step-ahead Control," Control and Dynamic Systems; Digital Control Systems Implementation and Computational Techniques, Vol. 79, pp. 117-157, 1996 Academic Press

Benson, Brian, Sage, Andrew P. and Cook, G. "Emerging Technology Evaluation Methodology: with Application to Micro Electro Mechanical Systems," IEEE Transactions an Engineering Management, Vol. 40, No. 2 (May 1993) pp.114-123.

Cook, G. "Discussion of 'Pre-shaping Command Inputs to Reduce System Vibration'" Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 115, No. 2 (June 1993)

Hartley, T. T. and Cook, G. "One-Step-Ahead Control with Improved Sensitivity Robustness," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 39, No. 3 (June '92) pp. 268-272.

Lei Zhou and Cook, G. "Path Planning for Robots with Redundant Degrees of Freedom," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 38, No. 6 (pp. 413-420 Dec. 1991).

Cook, G., "Comments on Johnson's Unreachable Poles Remedy", International Journal of Control, Vol. 51, No. 4 (pp. 949-951 Apr. 1990)

Pal, S., Stephanou, H. E., and Cook, G., "Optimal Control of A Single Link Flexible Manipulator," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic System, Vol. 2, 1989 pp. 187-199

Yen, K.K., Cook, G. and Beale, G. O., "Parameter Space Study of Algorithms Using Stale Data," Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct. 1988 pp. 229-241.)

Cook, G., "Counter Examples to Johnson's LQR Propriety Limits," International

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Journal of Control, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Aug. 1988) pp. 823-825.

Hartley, T., Beale, G. O. and Cook, G., "Multi-rate Input Sampling for Real-Time Runge-Kutta Simulation," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug. 1987) pp. 387-390.

Zheng, Fang-Jing and Cook, G., "Energy Optimal Control for Steel Rolling," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 32, No. 4 (November 1985), pp. 388-92.

Beale, G. O. and Cook, G., "Non-Iterative System Identification Applied to Wind Tunnel Valve Control," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (February 1985), pp. 71-77

Cook, G., "Message from the Past President-A Brief History of the Industrial Electronics Society of IEEE," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Eelctronics, Vol. 31, No. 1 (February 1984) pp. 1-2.

Cook, G., and Beale, G. O., "Application of Least Squares Parameter Identification with Fixed-Length Data Window to the Steel Bending Process," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 30, No. 4 (November 1983) pp. 334-39.

Cook, G., Trostmann, E. and Hansen, N.E., "General Scheme for Automatic Control of Continuous Bending of Beams," Measurement and Control for Batch Manufacturing, edited by D. E. Hardt, ASME Press, N.Y., N.Y., 1982, pp. 1-16.

Price, M. G., and Cook, G., Identification/Observation Using An Extended Luenberger Observer," IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 29, No. 4 (November 1982), pp. 279-87.

Yen, K., and Cook, G., "Discrete Time Simulation Using Parallel Processing; New Integration Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 29, No. 3 (August 1982), pp. 217-20.

Trostmann, E., Hansen, N.E., and Cook, G., "General Scheme for Automatic Control of Continuous Bending of Beams," Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 104, No. 2 (June 1982), pp. 173-179.

Cook, G., Jacobson, I.D., Change, R.C., and Melton, R., "Methodology for Multi Aircraft Minimum Noise Impact Trajectories," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 1982), pp. 131-46.

Yen, K., and Cook, G., "An Improved Local-Linearization Algorithm for Solving the Quaternion Equations," AIAA Journal on Guidance and Control, Vol. 3, No. 5 (September-October 1980), pp. 468-71.

Aylor, J.H., Ramey, R.L, and Cook, G., "Design and Application of a

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Microprocessor PID Predictor-Controller, IEEE Transactions on IECI, Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 1980), pp. 133-37.

Cook, G., and Lin, C.F., "Comparison of a Local-Linearization Algorithm with Standard Numerical Integration Methods for Real-Time Simulation," IEEE Transactions on IECI, Vol. 27, No.3 (August 1980), pp. 129-32.

Moon, C.W., Mullins, R.S., and Cook, G., "Electric Vehicles and Computer Control," Mundo Electronico, No. 93 (February 1980), pp. 143-46.Witt, R.M., Price, M. G., Thompson, P.M., and Cook, G., "Minimum-Noise Aircraft Landing Trajectories," Mundo Electronico, No. 91 (December 1979), pp. 81-86.

Witt, R.M., and Cook, G., "A Performance Measure for Evaluating Noise Effects During Landing," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. AES 14, No.5 (September 1978), pp. 789-95.

Beale, G.O., and Cook, G., "Optimal Digital Simulation of Aircraft Via Random Search Techniques," AIAA Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 1, No. 4 (July-August 1978), pp. 237-41. Also in PAKETHAR TEXNKA KOCMOHABTNKA, Vol. 16, No. 9 (September 1978), pp.197-203.

Cook, G., and Price, M.G., "Comment on a Comparison of the Smith Predictor and Optimal Design Approaches for Systems with Delay in the Control," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 1978), pp. 180-81.

Price, M.G., and Cook, G., "Error-Step Size Trade-Offs for Pade Approximants to Exponentials," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation,, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 1978), pp. 24-25.

Beale, G. O., and Cook, G., "Frequency Domain Synthesis of Discrete Representations," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 23, No. 4 (November 1976), pp. 438-43.

Cook, G., and Thomasson, F. Y., "Control Design for Linear Tracking Combined with Perfect Following," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 23, No. 4 (November 1976), pp. 400-05.

Barkana, A., and Cook, G., "A System for Extracting Graphical Data Using a Mobile Optical Array," ISA Transactions, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1976), pp. 368-78.

Barkana, A., and Cook, G., "An Aircraft Noise Pollution Model for Use in Near-Terminal Flight-Trajectory Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2 (March 1976), pp. 109-16.

Oakes, O.J., Jr., and Cook, G., "Piecewise Linear Control of Non-Linear Systems,"

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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 23, No. 1 (February 1976), pp. 56-63.

Cook, G., and Lee, Y.C., "Use of Kalman Filtering for Data Resolution Enhancement," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 22, No.4 (November 1975), pp. 497-500.

Wernli, A., and Cook, G., "Suboptimal Control for the Non-Linear Quadratic Regulator Problem," Automatica, Vol. 11 No. 1 (January 1975), pp. 75-84.

Cook, G., and Dawson, D. E., "Optimum Constant-Gain Filters," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 21, No. 3 (August 1974), pp. 159-63.

Demas, G. D., Barkana, A., and Cook, G., "Experimental Verification of the Improvement of Resolution when Applying Perturbation Theory to a Quantizer," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 20, No. 4 (November 1973), pp. 236-39.

Cook, G., "Some Practical Limitations on the Use of Perturbation Signals for Resolution Enhancement," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 20, No. 3 (August 1973),pp. 114-17.

White, R.R., and Cook, G., "Use of Piecewise Linearization for Suboptimal Control of Non-Linear Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol. 18, No. 2 (August 1973), pp. 385-97.

Barkana, A., Cook, G., and McVey, E.S., "A Solid-State Relay," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 1973), pp. 93-97.

Eads, B.G., and Cook, G., "Design and Application of a Time Optimum Controller for a Class of Non-Linear Processes," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 1973), pp. 93-97.

Thomasson, F.Y., and Cook, G., "On the Linear Regulator with Cross Terms in the Performance Index," International Journal of Control, Vol. 17, No. 5 (May 1973), pp. 117-19.

Thomasson, F.Y., and Cook, G., "Solving Flight-Path Optimization Problems on a Mini-Computer," Astronautica Acta, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 1973), pp. 45-51.

Aylor, J.H., Parrish, E.A., and Cook, G., "Optimum Design of a Position Detection System with a Sinusoidal Perturbation Signal, IEEE - IECI , Vol. 1, No. 4 (November 1972), pp. 114-19.

Thomasson, F.Y., and Cook, G., "Comparison of Constant Lift-Coefficient Climbs

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with Flight-Manual Climbs for a Jet Transport," AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 8, No.10 (October 1971), pp. 810-12.

Shields, V.C., and Cook, G., "Application of an Approximate Time Delay to a Posicast Control System," International Journal of Control, Vol. 14, No. 4 (October 1971).

Cook, G., "A Systematic Procedure for Writing and Solving Equations of Sampled-Data Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol. 13, No. 13 (March 1971), pp. 491-96.

Cook, G., "The Singular Control Problem and Approximate Solutions," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-16, No. 1 (February 1971), pp. 52-56.

Pracht, C.P., and Cook, G., "An Alternate Realization of the Near-Ideal Prediction," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-15, No. 6 (December 1970), pp. 698-99.

Thomasson, F.Y., and Cook, G., "Synthesis of A Near Time-Optimal Controller for Certain Second-Order Linear Systems Having Delay in the Control Action," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. IECI-17, No. 6 (November 1970), pp. 403-06.

Stanaway, J.J., Jr., and Cook, G., "Experimental Verification of Signal Perturbation Applied to the Accuracy of Position Detection," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. IECI-17, No. 5 (August 1970), pp. 369-74.

Cook, G. "Use of a Digital Computer to Determine Correct-Size Compensating Elements for a Pre-Specified Circuit Configuration," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation, Vol. IECI-16, No. 2 (September 1969), pp. 157-60.

DeDoes, D. H., Shaefer, J. F., Morgan, B. S., Jr., and Cook, G., "Procedures to Check the Adjoint Equations When Using the Methods of Steepest Ascent," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Controls, Vol. AC 14, No. 3 (June 1969), pp. 301-03.

Cook, G., and Funk, J.E., "The Quadratic Control Problem with an Energy Constraint, Approximate Solutions," Automatica, Vol. 4, No. 5 (November 1968), pp. 351-64.

Cook, G., Stark, L., "The Human Eye Movement Mechanism: Experiments, Modeling and Model Testing," Archives of Ophthalomology, Vol. 79 (April 1968), pp. 428-36.

Cook, G., and Stark, L., "Dynamic Behavior of the Human Eye-Positioning Mechanism," Communications in Behavioral Biology, Vol. 1, No. 3, Part A (March

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1968), pp. 197-204.

Cook, G., "Application of Green's Theorem to Optimization Problems with State-Variable Inequality Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-12, No. 1 (February 1967), pp. 105-06.

Cook, G., and Stark, L., "Derivation of a Model for the Human Eye-Positioning Mechanism," Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, Vol. 29 (1967), pp. 153-74.

Cook, G., Stark, L., and Zuber, B. L., "Horizontal Eye Movements Studied with the On-Line Computer," Archives of Ophthalmology, Vol. 76 (October 1966), pp. 589-95.

Cook, G., "An Application of Half-Cycle Posicast," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-11, No. 3 (July 1966), pp. 556-59

Cook, G., and Stark, L., "Dynamics of the Saccadic Eye Movement Mechanism," Proceedings of the Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 1 (Milwaukee, WI, June 1966),p. 356-59. Also published in PSL Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April 1967), pp. 144-51.

Zuber, B.L., Stark, L. and Cook, G., "Microsaccades and the Velocity-Amplitude Relationship for Saccadic Eye Movements," Science, Vol. 150, No. 3702 (December 10, 1965),pp. 1459-60.

PUBLICATIONS IN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Cook, G., "Guidance Systems," Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill.

Chang, S. S. L. (original), Cook, G. (revision), "Stochastic Control," Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill.

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Kadakkal, V. and Cook, G. “Use of Preview Control Scheme with Knowledge of Future Trajectory Information for Lane-Tracking Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot”, Proceedings of IECON 2008, TT5-Trajectory Planning and Navigation (65) ( Orlando, FL, USA, Nov. 10-13, 2008)

Cook, G. “Optimal Steering of a Mobile Robot “, Proceedings SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Unmanned Systems Technology IX Vol. 6561-82 (Orlando,

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Florida, USA April 9-13, 2007)

Kansal, S. and Cook, G. “Remote Sensing Using Vehicular Mounted Sensors and GPS Instrumentation”, Proceedings of SPIE Fourth International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Symposium, Remote Sensing Applications of the Global Positioning System, Vol 5661( pp 88-95, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Nov. 8-11, 2004)

Cook, G and Kansal, S. “Exploitation of Complementary Sensors for Precise Ground Registration of Sensed Objects”, Proceedings of SPIE Fourth International Asia- Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Symposium, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing II, Vol 5657 ( pp 20-29 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Nov. 8-11, 2004)

Kansal, S. Jakkidi, S. and Cook, G. “The Use of Mobile Robots for Remote Sensing and Object Localization” Proceedings of IECON 2003, ( pp 279-284, Roanoke, Va, USA, Nov. 2-6, 2003)

Jakkidi, S. and Cook, G. “Geo-location of Detected Landmines via Mobile Robots Equipped with Multiple Sensors”, Proceedings of IECON 2002, ( pp 1972-1977 Seville, Spain, Nov. 4-8, 2002 )

Cook, G., Jakkidi, S. Kansal, S., Sherbondy, K., and Amazeen, C., “Impact of Uneven Terrain on Geo-location Errors for Mines Detected via Vehicular Mounted Sensors”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mine and Minelike Targets VI, Vol. 4742, (pp594-605, Orlando, FL, April 1-5, 2002)

Cook, G., Sherbondy, K., and Jakkidi, S., “Geo-Location of Mines Detected via Vehicular-Mounted Forward-Looking Sensors”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mine and Minelike Targets VI, Vol. 4394, (pp922-933, Orlando, FL, April 16-20, 2001)

O’Brien, G. F. and Cook, G. “Effects of Misalignment on Pixel Averaging when Scaling Templates and Images Before Scanning”, Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2000, pp399-406 (Nashville, TN, April 7-9, 2000)

Cook G. and O’Brien, G. F. “Principal Components Analysis; Extension to Scaling for Application to Images Acquired at Various Ranges”, Proceedings of SPIE 44 th Annual Meeting, paper [3810-12], (Denver, Colorado July 18-23, 1999)

Bowers, H. and Cook, G. "Uniting Model-based and Model-less Methods for Robotic Manipulator Direction Control, Proceedings of IECON '98 pp. 1103-1108 (Aachen, Germany Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 1998)

Lin, Y. S. and Cook, G. "Automobile Steering Autopilot with Lane Change

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Capability," Proceedings of IECON '97 pp. 143-148 (New Orleans, LA, Nov. 10-14, 1997.)

Bauer, B. and Cook, G. "Algorithm and Simulation Development of Autonomous Robotics Search," Proceedings of IECON '97 pp. 1278-1283 (New Orleans, LA, Nov. 10-14, 1997.)

Tshingambo, Tshing and Cook, G., "Network Optimization with Application to Vehicular Routing," Proceedings of IECON '95 (Orlando, FL, Nov. 6-10, 1995.)

Cook, G., Balzar, J., Frietchen, D., Nayfeh, M., "Resolving Kinematic Redundancy in Robotic Manipulators; Performance Measures, Repeatability, and Algorithmic Singularities," Proc. of IECON '94 pp. 708-712, (Bologna Italy, Sept 5-9, 1994.)

Kreidl, O. P., Cooley, M. L. and Cook, G. "Computer Simulation of a Robotic Golfer" Proceedings of IECON '93 (Lahaina, Maui, HI, Nov. 15-19, 1993)

Araujo, R. and Cook, G. "Comparison of Two Adaptive Control Methods for Robotic Applications," Proceedings of IECON '93 (Lahaina, Maui, HI, Nov. 15-19, 1993.)

Maciag, C. J. and Cook, G. "Does Slave Manipulator Need Any Autonomy," Virtual Reality Conference, Beyond Speech Recognition, Tele-operation '93, SIG Advanced Applications (New York, N.Y. Oct. 16-19, 1993).

Maciag, C. and Cook, G. "Robotic Control in Uncertain Environment; Hypothesis Testing, Identification and Accommodation" IROS '92, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 301-308 (Raleigh, N. C. July 7-10, 1992).

Cook, G. "Multilevel Problems of Robotics: Path Planning, Steering and Control," Proc. Inter-American Engineering Conference '90 (Miami, FL, Dec. 3-6, 1990)

Cook, G. "Resolving Kinematic Redundancy for Robotic Manipulators," Proceedings IECON '90 (Monterey, CA, Nov. 26-30, 1990)

Yang, X. H. and Cook, G., "Vehicle Tracking Using Bearings-Only Measurements with Multiple Fixed Observers," Proc. IECON '90 (Monterey, CA, Nov. 26-30, 1990)

Yang, X. H. and Cook, G. "Collision Free Paths in Joint Space for Robotic Manipulators," Proceedings IECON '89 (Philadelphia, PA November 6-10, 1989).

Maciag, C. and Cook. G., "Identification of Linear Plants Using State Space Models," Proceedings IECON '89 (Philadelphia, PA, November 6-10, 1989).

Cook, G. and Zhou, L., "Control of Robots with Redundant Degrees of Freedom",

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Proceedings IECON `88 Topical Conference on Robotics, (Singapore, Oct. 24-28, 1988).

Cook, G. and Alvandi, F., "Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models for Aircraft Tracking," Proceedings IECON `88 Topical Conference on Control, (Singapore, Oct. 24-28, 1988).

Pal, S., Stephanou, H. E. and Cook, G., "Optimal Control of a Single-link Flexible Manipulator," Proceedings Conference on Robotics & Automation, pp. 171-175 (Philadelphia, PA, April 1988).

Pal, S., Cook, G. and Stephanou, H. E. "Near Optimal Control of Flexible Robots," Proceedings IECON `87 Topical Conference on Robotics and Vision, pp. 622-629 (Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 3-6, 1987).

Crapps, C. and Cook, G., "Identification and Control of Flexible Limb Robots with Unknown Loads,"Proceedings IECON `87 Topical Conference on Control and Simulation, pp. 133-141 (Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 3-6, 1987).

Pal, S., Stephanou, H. E., and Cook, G., "State Space Modeling and Control of Flexible Manipulators," Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control, (Philadelphia, PA, January, 1987).

Yen, K. K., and Cook, G., "Stability and Accuracy Studies of Parallel Algorithms Using Stale Data," Proceedings of Twenty - Fifth Annual SICE Conference (SICE '86) International Section, Tokyo, Japan, July 23-25, 1986.

Cook, G., "Control of Flexible Robots with Unknown Loads, " Proceedings of 1986 Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Army Logistics Support and Combat Engineering Operations (Fort Belvoir, VA, March 25-27, 1986).

Cook, G., "Control of Flexible Structures Via Posicast," Proceedings 1986 Southeastern Symposium on System Theory pp. 31-35 (Knoxville, TN, April 7-8, 1986).

Cook, G., and Gunter, E., "Digital Signal Processing of Rotor Dynamics," Proceedings of 1986 Southeastern Symposium on System Theory pp. 225-228 (Knoxville, TN, April 7-8, 1986).

Yen, K., and Cook, G., "Parallel Digital Simulation by Decomposition of System Equations," Southeastcon '85 (Raleigh, NC, March 31-April 3, 1985).

Arteaga, F. J., Cook, G., and Beale, G. O., "Computer Aided Digital Control Design Using Time-Domain Specifications," Southeastcon '85 (Raleigh, NC, March 31-April 3, 1985).

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Yen, K., Cook, G., and Beale, G. O., "A Comparison of Three Real-Time Digital Simulation Methods Using Multi-Rate Input Sampling," Proceedings IECON '84 (Tokyo, Japan, October 22-26, 1984).

Shepard, M.E., Beale, G. O., and Cook, G., "Optimal Discrete Transfer Functions Through Complex Curve Fitting," Proceedings of 1984 Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Starkville, MI, March 25-27, 1984).

Patel, M.R. and Cook, G., "Comparison of Performance Characteristics of DDC Algorithms Implemented on a Microprocessor," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon '84 (Louisville, KY, April 9-11, 1984).

Barkana, A. and Cook, G., "Optimal Perturbation Signal for Linearizing Nonlinearities," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon '84 (Louisville, KY, April 9-11, 1984).

Cook, G., Trostmann, E., Hansen, N. E., "General Scheme for Automatic Control of Continuous Bending of Beams," Proceedings Symposium on Measurement and Control for Batch Manufacturing, ASME 1982 Winter Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ, November 15-17, 1982).

Cook, G., and Beale, G. O., "Application of Least Squares Parameter Identification with Fixed-Length Data Window to the Steel Bending Process," Proceedings IECON '82 (Palo Alto, CA, November 15-17, 1982).

Hintz, K. J., McVey, E. S., and Cook, G., "Time Optimal Control of the Mirror Track Radar Antenna," 1981 Joint Automatic Control Conference (Charlottesville, VA, June 17-19, 1981).

Cook, G., Hansen, N. E., and Trostman, E., "Automatic Control of Continuous Bending of Steel Beams," 1981 Joint Automatic Control Conference (Charlottesville, VA, June 17-19, 1981).

Cook, G., and Lin, C. F., "Comparison of a Local-Linearization Algorithm with Standard Numerical Integration Methods for Real-Time Simulation," Proceedings of Southeastcon '79 IEEE Region III Conference (Roanoke, VA, April 2-4, 1979).

Price, M.G., and Cook, G., "Use of An Extended Luenberger Observer for System Identification," Proceedings of Southeastcon - '79 IEEE Region III Conference (Roanoke, VA, April 2-4, 1979).

Cook, G., "Sampling Requirements in Signal Processing," Proceedings of Southeastcon '79 IEEE Region III Conference (Roanoke, VA, April 2-4, 1979).

Beale, G. O., and Cook, G., "Digital Simulation and Optimization Via Random Search Techniques, " Proceedings of IMACS International Symposium on

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Simulation Software and Numerical Methods for Differential Equations (Blacksburg, Virginia, March, 9-11, 1977).

Rose, S. A., and Cook, G., "Implementation of Least Squares Identification of Multi-Variable Systems," Proceedings of Southeastern '77-IEEE Region III Conference, (Williamsburg, Virginia, April 5-7, 1977).

Cook, G., and Thomasson, F. Y., "Linear Tracking Combined with Perfect Following and Applied to a Power Generation Station." Proceedings of 1975 Triennial Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control (Boston, Massachusetts, August 24-30, 1975).

Cook, G., and Lee, Y.C., "Map Interpretation Utilizing Kalman Filtering," Proceedings of Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 21-22, 1974).

Pettus, W.G., and Cook, G., "Modeling a Heat Exchanger for Dynamic State Estimation," Proceedings of the Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering Section (Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1973).

Cook, G., and Dawson, D.W., "Kalman Type Filters with Time-Invariant Gains," Proceedings of Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Raleigh, North Carolina, March, 1973).

Eads, B.G., and Cook, G., "Design and Application of a Time-Optimum Controller for a Nonlinear Time-Delay Process," Proceedings of Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Lexington, Kentucky, April 3-4, 1972).

Motwani, R.L., and Cook, G., "Control of Temperature and Humidity of Anesthesia Gases," Proceedings of Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Lexington, Kentucky, April 3-4, 1972).

Thomasson, F.Y., and Cook, G., "Near-Optimal Flight-Path Trajectories for a Jet Transport," Proceedings of IEEE Region III Conference (Charlottesville, Virginia, April 26-28, 1971).

White, R.R. and Cook, G., "Suboptimal Solutions to the Nonlinear Regulator Problem Via Piecewise-Linear Modeling," Proceedings of Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-4, 1971).

Cook, G., "An Approximation Technique for Singular Control Problems, "Proceedings of International Federation of Automatic Control Congress (Warsaw, Poland, June 1969).

Schaefer, J.F., DeDoes, D. H., Ciletti, M. D., Cook, G., and Morgan, B. S., Jr., "A Computer Optimization Study of a Three-Dimensional Model of an Engagement

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Between a Surface-to-Air Missile and a Tactical Aircraft," Proceedings of Air Force Science and Engineering Symposium (Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 30-November 1, 1968).

Morgan, B. S., Jr., Schaefer, J. F., DeDoes, D. H., Ciletti, M. D., and Cook, G., "The Application of the Method of Steepest Descent to a Very High-Order Optimization Problem: The Problem of Developing Evasion Tactics for Aircraft Pursued by Missiles," Proceedings of Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory, Allerton House (Monticello, Illinois, October 1968).

Vachino, R F., Schaefer, J. R., DeDoes, D.H., Morgan, B. S., Jr., Cook, G., "The Application of the Method of Steepest Descent to a Pursuit-Evasion Problem, "Proceedings of AIAA Guidance Control and Flight Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper No. 68-878 (Pasadena, California, August 12-14, 1968).

Cook, G., "An Approximation Technique for Singular Control Problems," Proceedings of Second Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, March 25-26, 1968).

Morgan, B. S., Jr., Cook, G., DeDoes, D. H., Schaefer, J. F., and Vachino, R. F., "The Application of Modern Optimization Techniques to a Pursuit-Evasion Problem," Proceedings of Second Annual Princton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, March 25-26, 1968).

Vachino, R. F., Schaefer, J. F., Dedoes, D. H., and Cook, G., " The Optimal Solution of a Tactical Pursuit-Evasion Problem," Proceedings of OAR Applications Conference (Washington D.C., 1968).

Cook, G., and Funk, J.E., "On the Quadratic Control Problem with an Energy Constraint," Proceedings of Fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit System and Theory, University of Illinois, Allerton House (Monticello, Illinois, October 5-7, 1966.

INVITED PRESENTATION:

"Information Processing for Failure Detection," Northern Virginia/Washington IEEE Section, Information Theory Group, 1985 Workshop, McLean, November, 1985.

"New Methods for Digital Simulation," The University of Trondheim, The Norwegian Institute of Technology Division of Engineering Cybernetics, Trondheim, May 21, 1980.

"Aircraft Landing Trajectories for Minimum Noise Pollution," Department of

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Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, May 13, 1980.

"Minimum-Noise Aircraft Landing Trajectories," IEEE Denmark Section, Copenhagen, March 20, 1980.

"Two Topics in Robotics; Kinematic Redundancy and Uncertain Environments," Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Md., January 3, 1992.