Vadim I. Utkin

Professor

Mailing Address:
205 Dreese Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA

Office: 456 Dreese Laboratory
Phone: (614) 292-6115
email: utkin@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

Prof. Utkin is one of the originators of the concepts of Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control. He is an author of five books and more than 270 technical papers. In 1975-1978 he was in charge of an international project between his Institute and "Energoinvest", Sarajevo, on the sliding mode control of induction motors. He has worked on the control of D.C., induction, and synchronous drives using sliding mode techniques in metal-cutting machine tools, process control and electric cars. His current research interests are the control of infinite-dimensional plants (including flexible manipulators), sliding modes in discrete time systems, microprocessor implementation of sliding mode control, control of electric drives and alternators, robotics and motion control, IC (Internal Combustion) Engine control.

He is an Honorary Doctor of the University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1972 he was awarded the Lenin Prize (the highest scientific award in the former USSR).

Prof. Utkin was IPC chairman of 1990 IFAC Congress in Tallinn; now he is Associate Editor of "International Journal of Control".

Currently Prof. Utkin teaches courses on control principles for undergraduates (Principles of Automatic Control), and courses in Optimal control, State Methods for Dynamic Systems Analysis and Control and Sliding mode control in electromechanical systems at the graduate level.

Prof. Utkin has held visiting positions at universities in the USA, Japan, Italy and Germany. He holds appointments in the Control Research Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he teaches in the System Dynamics, Measurements and Controls program.