Position Title
Professor
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Francis Assadian is a Professor in system dynamics and control in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis. His expertise includes vehicle dynamics, active chassis development, alternative powertrain, energy optimization, and estimation and advanced control system design. He was previously head of the department of automotive engineering at Cranfield University in the UK. He has over 30 years of industry experience of which 17 years are in the automotive domain. He worked for companies such as Peugeot-Citroen in France, Ford of Europe in Germany, and Jaguar Land-Rover in the UK. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers, and technical reports. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California and a Certified Engineer in the UK, and a Fellow of IMechE.
Welcome to Assadian Team
Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronic controls and systems engineering in the design of products and processes. Mechatronic systems are putting intelligence into physical systems. Embedded sensors/actuators/processors are integral parts of mechatronic systems.
On the one hand, implementation of the mechatronic systems is on the continuous rise. On the other hand, manufacturers are working hard to reduce the implementation cost of these systems.One way of reducing this cost is the use of virtual sensors in place of the actual sensors by using new estimation technique, Youla Parameterization, developed at UC Davis, as shown in the Figure below.
In our team we work on component and system physical modeling and new control system design techniques for the advancement of Mechatronics Systems.
Recent publication
- Velazquez Alcantar and F. Assadian, “A robust stability control system for a hybrid electric vehicle equipped with electric rear axle drive,” SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars-Mechanical Systems, vol. 9, no. 2016-01-1649, 2016.
- Velazquez Alcantar, F. Assadian, M. Kuang, and E. Tseng, “Optimal Longitudinal slip ratio allocation & control of a hybrid electric vehicle with eawd capabilities,” in ASME 2016 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Minneapolis, MN, 2016.
- Beckerman, A., and Assadian, F., “Modeling ground vehicles with active suspension kinematics using bond graphs”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation, The Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 54-63, Montreal, Canada, 2017.
- Velazquez Alcantar and F. Assadian, “Tire force estimation using youla controller output observer,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, L-CSS, 2017.
- Beckerman, A., and Assadian, F., “A new estimation concept for automotive suspensions”, In Proceedings of the 20th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, Toulouse, France, 2017.