Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

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Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
University of Florida, 2014

M.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of Florida, 2011

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, 2007

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Research Interests

• Data-driven Control
• Hybrid and Nonsmooth Systems
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Socio-Ecological Systems
• Nonlinear Control
• Optimal Control
• Reinforcement Learning
• Assured Autonomy

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Awards and Recognition

• 2017, Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. IEEE Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession
• 2015, MAE Best Dissertation Award, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. MAE Teaching Fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
• 2014, MAE Outstanding Graduate Research Award, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
• 2013, IEEE CSS student travel support for the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence,Italy.
• 2009, College of Engineering Achievement Award for new engineering graduate students, University ofFlorida, Gainesville, FL.

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Professional Memberships

• 2013­ IEEE Control Systems Society.
• 2018 ­IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

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Courses Taught

• Engineering Analysis and Methods
• Introduction to Autonomous Systems
• Optimal Control
• Nonlinear Systems Analysis and Control
• Automatic Control Systems

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Recent Publications

• R. Kamalapurkar, W. E. Dixon, and A. R. Teel, “On reduction of differential inclusions and Lya­punovstability,”ESAIMControlOptim.Calc.Var.,vol.26,2020.
• A. Parikh, R. Kamalapurkar, and W. E. Dixon, “Integral concurrent learning: Adaptive control withparameterconvergenceusingfiniteexcitation,”Int.J.Adapt.ControlSignalProcess.,vol.33,no.12,pp. 1775–1787, 2019.
• S. Thapa, R. V. Self, R. Kamalapurkar, and H. Bai, “Cooperative manipulation of an unknownpayload with concurrent mass and drag force estimation,”IEEE Control Syst. Lett., vol. 3, no. 4,pp. 907–912, 2019.
• J. A. Rosenfeld, R. Kamalapurkar, and W. E. Dixon, “The state following approximation method,”IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learn. Syst., vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 1716–1730, 2019.
• R. Kamalapurkar, J. A. Rosenfeld, A. Parikh, A. R. Teel, and W. E. Dixon, “Invariance­like re­sultsforswitchednonautonomousnonsmoothsystems,”IEEE Trans. Autom. Control,vol.64,no.2,pp. 614–627, 2019.