Mehran Mesbahi
Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
Executive Director of the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation
Email: mesbahi@uw.edu
DSSL website: http://depts.washington.edu/dssl/wiki/
Dept. Website: http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/mesbahi
JCATI Website: http://www.jcati.org
Office: 318E Guggenheim Hall, University of Washington
BOX 352400, Seattle, WA 98195-2400; Phone: (206) 543-7937, FAX: (206) 543-0217
the themes of my research are:
- distributed and networked systems; multi-agent control; distributed estimation; theory of networks
- distributed space systems; spacecraft control, guidance, and navigation
- maneuver planning in uncertain and complex environments
- systems and control theory
- optimization theory and algorithms, in particular, semidefinite programming and its engineering applications
- applied discrete mathematics; engineering applications of combinatorics
courses that I teach are:
- mathematical foundations of systems theory
- networked dynamic systems
- orbital and spaceflight mechanics
- robust control
- multivariable control
- optimization and system sciences
- spacecraft dynamics and control
