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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Yogendra P. Kakad, PhD.
Professor
Office: Woodward
Hall 205D
Phone: 704/687-8408
Fax: 704/687-4762
E-mail: kakad@uncc.edu
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Education
- University of Florida, M.S.,
1970, Mechanical Engineering
- University of Florida, Ph.D.,
1975, Mech. Engr. (major) Electrical Engr. (minor)
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Professional
Experience
- August 1976 to present:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Position: Professor.
- Position: Professor. August
1967 to July 1968: Madhvani Group of Industries, Jinja, Uganda, East
Africa Position: Engineer
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Professional
Experience - Selected five over
last ten years
- "Dynamics of Spacecraft Control
Laboratory Experiment (SCOLE) Slew Maneuvers", NASA CR-4098,
October 1987.
- "Decentralized Slew
Maneuver Control and Vibration Suppression of Large Flexible
Spacecrafts", Computational Techniques in Identification and
Control of Flexible Flight Structures, Op- timization Software, Inc.,
Publication Division, Los Angeles, CA, 1989, pp. 159-175.
- "Output Feedback
Detumbling and Reorientation Maneuvers and Vibration Damping of NASA
SCOLE System", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
January 1992, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 80-91. "Nonlinear Rotational
Maneuver and Vibration Damping of NASA SCOLE System", Acta
Astronautic Journal, July 1994.
- "Nonlinear Rotational
Maneuver and Vibration Damping of NASA SCOLE System", Acta
Astronautic Journal, July 1994.
- "Identification of
Articulated Multibody Flexible Space Structure", SDVNC, Vol. II,
pp. 918-923, December, 1995.
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Professional
Affiliations
- IEEE (Senior Member)
- ASME
- AIAA (Senior Member)
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Honors and Awards
- Pi Tau Sigma
- Award of NASA-ASEE Summer
Research Fellowship, 1982
- Award of NASA-ASEE Summer
Research Fellowship, 1983
- Award of Major Summer
Research Grant, 1984
- Award of NASA-ASEE Summer
Research Fellowship, 1984
- Initiated to Tau Beta Pi, the
Engineering Honor Society, as Eminent Engineer, 1985
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Research
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NASA Funded Research
- Dynamics and Control of
Flexible Spacecraft During Slewing Maneuvers
- Dynamics and Control of
Flexible Multibody Space Systems. Research
- Campus coordinator for N.C. Space
Grant Consortium.
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Other Research Areas
- Multivariable Control
applications to Robotics, Aircrafts and Manufacturing.
- Rapid-Prototyping of Digital
Designs for Controls, Communications and Digital Signal Processing.
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Publications
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