Systems, Measurements & Controls
Systems is where everything comes together. Purdue researchers model processes in everything from manufacturing and aerospace, to energy and human-machine interaction. They pioneer new ways to gather diagnostic data on engines, computer networks, buildings, and many other complex systems.
Purdue also has a long history in automatic control, studying both theory and application. Expertise in control and feedback leads to better mechatronics, robotics, vehicles, biomedical tools, and more.
Faculty in Systems, Measurements & Controls
- Light scattering
- Discrete dipole approximation (DDA)
- Biomedical optics
- Instrument development for food safety
- Optical characterization of soot
- Modeling of nonlinear systems
- Structural dynamics and localization
- Flow-induced vibrations
- Impacting systems
- Bifurcations and chaos
- Uncertainty propagation
- Inverse problems
- Propagation of information across scales
- Optimal learning
- Materials by design
- Growing robots
- Soft robotics
- Bioinspired systems
- Wearable robots
- Haptics
- Soft matter
- Multi-scale robotic manipulation and assembly
- Mobile micro/nano robotics
- Micro/nano aerial vehicles
- Micro-Bio robotics
- Mechatronics
- MEMS/NEMS
- Automation for the life sciences
- Dynamic systems and control
- Mechatronics
- Digital and functional printing and fabrication
- Motion and vibration control and perception
- Embedded systems and real-time control
- Sound quality
- Signal Processing
- Data analysis
- System modeling and identification
- Condition monitoring of machinery
- Perception-based engineering
- Seat-occupant modeling
- Principles of aerial and aquatic locomotion in animals
- Experimental fluid mechanics
- Dynamics
- Control
- Bio-inspired robotics
- Biologically inspired micro aerial vehicles and underwater robots
- Bio-sensing and sensor fusion algorithms
- Structural Dynamics and Control
- Cyber-physical Systems
- Machine Vision
- Real-time Hybrid Simulation
- Damage Detection and Structural Condition Monitoring
- Cyberinfrastructure Development
- Laser-absorption spectroscopy, laser-induced fluorescence, & IR imaging sensors for gas temperature, pressure, velocity, and chemical species
- Molecular spectroscopy, photophysics, & energy transfer in gases
- Energetic materials (e.g., explosives & propellants) detection & combustion
- Combustion and propulsion systems (small and large scale)
- Biomedical sensing
- Legged locomotion
- Humanoid and quadrupedal robots
- Wearable robotics
- Hybrid dynamical systems
- Control
- State estimation
- Dynamics
- Dynamic modeling and optimal control; model predictive control; decentralized control
- Thermodynamics-based optimization; entropy generation minimization; exergy analysis
- Integrated energy management and storage in distributed energy systems, building systems
- Advanced multi-scale manufacturing
- Ultrafast laser machining and processing
- Fiber optic sensors and environmental monitoring
- Spray-based nanoparticle coating and additive manufacturing
- Machining of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites
- Building electrification, flexibility, and efficiency
- Integrating flexible loads, energy storage, and distributed solar into power grids
- Optimization and control under uncertainty
- Energy policy
- Acoustic tweezers
- Acoustofluidics
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Ultrasound control
- Underwater communication
- Ultrasound imaging
- Multiphysics wave propagation theory
- Noise control and energy harvesting
- Laser diagnostics
- Diode-laser-based sensors
- Gas turbine and internal engine combustion
- Materials processing and synthesis
- Combustion science
- Fluid mechanics and heat transfer
- Robotics
- Marine Robotics
- Unmanned Systems
- Energy Autonomy
- Systems Design
- Coordination and Controls
- Dissimilar material 3D printing
- Additive manufacturing of energetic materials
- Additive manufacturing of materials for high temperature applications
- Quality control in additive manufacturing
- Motion and vibration control
- Adaptive control
- Intelligent control using fuzzy logic and neural networks
- Engine and emissions diagnostics
- Robotics
- Turbomachinery, turbines
- Measurement techniques, experimental turbomachinery
- Air-breathing propulsion
- MEMS, nanotechnology
- BioMEMS
- Biosensors
- Protein detection
- Aptamers (Nucleic-acid-based receptor molecules)
- Model-based system and control design of commercial vehicle power trains
- Connected and automated commercial vehicles
- Internal combustion engine & after-treatment system design and controls
- Flexible valve actuation in diesel and natural gas engines
- Laser additive manufacturing
- Ultrafast laser matter interaction
- Laser welding
- Laser assisted machining
- Laser shock peening
- Multi-physics, multi-scale modeling
- Micro-nano manufacturing
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Metrology
- Optomechanics
- Mass spectrometry
- Contact mechanics
- Vehicle Chassis Control Systems
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Human Driver Dynamics
- Laser-matter interactions
- Laser-induced plasma and laser-plasma interaction
- Laser applications in manufacturing, materials processing, and other areas
- Adaptive and robust control
- Nonlinear control
- Precision control of mechanical systems
- Vehicle control
- Robotics
- Multiscale superfast 3D optical sensing
- Biophotonic imaging
- Optical metrology
- Machine/computer vision
- 3D video telepresence
- 3D video processing
- Virtual reality
- Human computer interaction