Publications
C. Xu, E. Schuster, R. Vazquez, M. Krstic, �Stabilization of Linearized 2D Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flow by Backstepping Boundary Control,� Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, New York, July 11-13, 2007.
Y. Ou, C. Xu, E. Schuster, T. Luce, J. R. Ferron, M. Walker, �Extremum-Seeking Finite-Time Optimal Control of Plasma Current Profile at the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, New York, July 11-13, 2007.
R. Vazquez, E. Schuster and M. Krstic, �A Closed-Form Feedback Controller for Stabilization of Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flow,� Proceedings of the 2007 European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007.
Nicholas Lynch, Eugenio Schuster, Metin Sitti, �A Strategy for Vision-Based Controlled Pushing of Microparticles,� Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, Italy, April 10-14, 2007.
E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys, M. Krstic, �Anti-windup Augmentation for Plasma Vertical Stabilization in the DIII-D Tokamak,� pp. 1-30, in �Advanced Strategies in Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints,� edited by S. Tarbouriech, G. Garcia and A.H. Glattfelder, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer, 2007. ISBN-10: 3540370099, ISBN-13: 978-3540370093.
Y. Ou, E. Schuster, J.R. Ferron and M.L. Walker, �Optimal Estimation of Vessel Currents for Equilibrium Reconstruction Enhancement at DIII-D,� Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, December 13-15, 2006.
E. Schuster and M. Ariola, �The Role of Controls in Nuclear Fusion,� Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, December 13-15, 2006.
R. Vazquez, E. Schuster and M. Krstic, �A Closed-Form Observer for the 3D Inductionless MHD and Navier-Stokes Channel Flow,� Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, December 13-15, 2006.
L. Luo and E. Schuster, �Heat Transfer Enhancement in 2-D Magnetohydrohynamic Channel Flow by Boundary Feedback,� Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, December 13-15, 2006.
J. Woodby, L. Luo, E. Schuster, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz and F.D. Halpern, �Adaptive Extremum Seeking Control of ECCD for NTM Stabilization,� 48th Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006.
L. Luo, J. Woodby, E. Schuster, G. Bateman, A.H. Kritz and F.D. Halpern, �ECCD Power Required for NTM Stabilization,� 48th Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006.
J.R. Ferron, P. Gohil, C.M. Greenfield, T.C. Luce, C.C. Petty, P.A. Politzer, M.R. Wade, V. Basiuk, F. Imbeaux, T.A. Casper, M. Murakami, Y. Ou, E. Schuster, Q. Gao, A. Wang, �Modeling of DIII-D Discharges With Feedback Control of the Safety Factor Profile Evolution,� 48th Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006.
Y. Ou, C. Xu, E. Schuster, T.C. Luce, J.R. Ferron, M.L. Walker and D.A. Humphreys, �Modeling for Control of the Current Profile Evolution During the Ramp-Up Phase at DIII-D,� 48th Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006.
J. Blair, E. Schuster, D.A. Humphreys, Y. In, M.L. Walker and A. Welander, �Control of Resistive Wall Mode Using a Matched Filter Eigenmode Approach,� 48th Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30-November 3, 2006.
D.A. Humphreys, M. Bakhtiari, J. Blair, J.R. Ferron, Y. In, G.L. Jackson, H. Jhang, R.D. Johnson, J.S. Kim, R.J. La Haye, J.A. Leuer, B.G. Penaflor, E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, H. Wang, A.S. Welander, D.G. Whyte, �Development of ITER-Relevant Plasma Control Solutions at DIII-D,� Proceedings of the 21st IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Chengdu, China, October 16-21, 2006.
E. Schuster, Chao Xu and Nicholas Torres, �Extremum Seeking Adaptive Control of Beam Envelope in Particle Accelerators,� Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2006.
R. Vazquez, E. Schuster, M. Krstic, �A closed-form observer for the 3D inductionless Hartmann flow,� Conference on Active Flow Control, Berlin, Germany, September 27-29, 2006.
Y. Ou, M.L. Walker, E. Schuster and J.R. Ferron, �Equilibrium Reconstruction Improvement via Kalman-filter-based Vessel Current Estimation at DIII-D,� 24th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2006.
Y. Ou, T.C. Luce, E. Schuster, J.R. Ferron, M.L. Walker, C. Xu, and D.A. Humphreys, �Towards Model-based Current Profile Control at DIII-D,� 24th Symposium on Fusion Technology, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2006.
E. Schuster, E. Morinaga, C.K. Allen and M. Krstic, �Optimal Beam Matching in Particle Accelerators via Extremum Seeking,� Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Jun. 2006.
E. Schuster and L. Luo, �Mixing Enhancement by Boundary Feedback Control in 2D MHD Channel Flow,� Proceedings of the 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jun. 2006.
M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys, D. Mazon, D. Moreau, M. Okabayashi, T. Osborne, E. Schuster, �Emerging Applications in Tokamak Plasma Control: Control solutions for next generation tokamaks,� IEEE Control System Magazine (Special Issue on Tokamak Plasma Control), vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 35-63, 2006.
E. Schuster and K. Gross, �Dynamic System Characterization of Enterprise Servers via Nonparametric Identification,� Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, USA, Jun. 2005.
K.C. Gross and E. Schuster, �Spectral Decomposition and Reconstruction of Telemetry Signals from Enterprise Computing Systems�, Proceedings of the 2005 International MultiConference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Conference on Computer Design (CDES�05), Las Vegas, USA, June 2005.
E. Schuster, C.K. Allen and M. Krstic, �Optimized Beam Matching Using Extremum Seeking,� Proceedings of the 2005 Particle Accelerators Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, May 2005.
C.K. Allen and E. Schuster, �Automated Beam Steering Using Optimal Control,� Proceedings of the 2005 Particle Accelerators Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, May 2005.
E. Schuster, M. L. Walker, D. A. Humphreys, and M. Krstic, �Plasma Vertical Stabilization with Actuation Constraints in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Automatica, 41, pp. 1173-1179, 2005.
E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys and M. Krstic,�Toward the Implementation of an Anti-Windup Scheme for Vertical and Shape Control in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, Jun. 2004.
E. Schuster and M. Krstic, �Inverse Optimal Boundary Control for Mixing in Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows,� Proceedings of the 42th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2003.
E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys and M. Krstic, �Anti-windup Scheme for Plasma Shape Control with Rate adn Magnitude Actuation Constraints in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 42th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2003.
M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys and E. Schuster, �Some Nonlinear Controls for Nonlinear Processes in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 42th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2003.
E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys and M. Krstic, �Implementation of an Anti-Windup Scheme for Vertical Controllability in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Energy, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 2003.
M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys, J. Leuer and E. Schuster, �Some Practical Control Issues on the DIII-D Tokamak and their Relevance for ITER,� Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Energy, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 2003.
E. Schuster and M. Krstic, �Control of a Nonlinear PDE System Arising from Non-Burning Tokamak Plasma Transport Dynamics,� International Journal of Control, vol.76, no.11, pp. 1116-1124, July 2003.
E. Schuster, M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys and M. Krstic, �Plasma Vertical Stabilization in Presence of Coil Voltage Saturation in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, USA, Jun. 2003.
E. Schuster, M. Krstic and G. Tynan, �Burn Control in Fusion Reactors via Nonlinear Stabilization Techniques,� Fusion Science and Technology, vol.43, no.1, pp. 18-37, January 2003.
E. Schuster and M. Krstic, �Nonlinear Boundary Control of Non-Burning Plasma Kinetic Profiles in Cylindrical Geometry,� Proceedings of the 41th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Dec. 2002.
M.L. Walker, J.R. Ferron, D.A. Humphreys, R.D. Johnson, J.A. Leuer, B.G. Penaflor, A. Pironti, M. Ariola and E. Schuster, �Next-Generation Plasma Control in the DIII-D Tokamak,� Fusion Engineering and Design, 66-68, pp.749-753, Sept. 2003.
E. Schuster, M. Krstic and G. Tynan, �Nonlinear Backstepping Control for the Fuel Diffusion Lag in Fusion Reactors,� Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2002.
E. Schuster, M. Krstic and G. Tynan, �Nonlinear Lyapunov-Based Burn Control in Fusion Reactors,� Fusion Engineering and Design, 63-64, pp.569-575, 2002.
E. Schuster, M. Krstic and G. Tynan, �Nonlinear Burn Control in Fusion Reactors,� Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Energy, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, Sep. 2001 (Postponed to Jan. 2002).
E. Schuster, M. Krstic and G. Tynan, �Nonlinear Control of Burn Instability in Fusion Reactors,� Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, USA, Dec. 2001.
E. Schuster, J. Solsona and C. Muravchik, �Fault Detection Filters for Nonlinear Systems,� Annals of the XVI National Symposium of Automatic Control (AADECA �98), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1998.
E. Schuster, J. Solsona and C. Muravchik, �Actuator Fault Detection using a Linear Dynamics Error Observer,� Annals of the XVI National Symposium of Automatic Control (AADECA �98), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1998.