Professor Pao's research interests are in control systems (with applications to flexible structures, disk drives, atomic force microscopes, near-field scanning optical lithography systems, tape drives, wind turbines and wind farms, marine turbines, and power systems); multisensor fusion (with applications to unmanned autonomous vehicles, satellites, and automotive active safety systems); and multimodal visual/haptic/audio interfaces (with applications to scientific visualization and spatial communication). The dominant application focus over the last decade has been on wind energy systems, ranging from the design and control of extreme-scale and novel wind turbine configurations as well as the control of floating offshore wind turbines and wind farms. She is currently exploring other applications as well in order to diversity research projects in her group. She is especially fascinated by common properties and characteristics of systems found across different types of systems in disparate application areas.
keywords
control of flexible structures, combined feedforward and feedback control, nonminimum phase systems, multisensor fusion
Impulse Optimization for Data Association.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Decision & Control / IEEE Control Systems Society. IEEE Conference on Decision & Control.
2204-2209.
2010
Shack and vortex visualization - Using a combined visual/haptic interface.
Visualization : proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Visualization / sponsoring organization, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics in cooperation with Association for Computing Machinery/SIGGRAPH. IEEE Con....
131-137.
2000
