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Yoram Halevi

Phone: 073-3783465
Email: yoramh@technion.ac.il
Office: DK, 320

Education

1974 – B.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
1981 – M.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
1985 – D.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.

Research Interests

Control of flexible structures
Optimal control of redundant systems
Model updating and Structural Health Monitoring
Order reduction
Optimal control and estimation

Guest Appointments

Visiting Scientist, CNR-ITIA, Milan, Italy (2010)
Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2003-04)
Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University (1992-93)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University (1988, 1989)
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University (1986-87)

Public Professional Activities

Dean, The Pernick Faculty of Engineering, Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art (2021-2025).
Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion (2014-2018)
Editor, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP) (2017-
Member, Steering Committee of Technion – Guandong Institute of Technoloy (2014-2016)
Program Chair, 12th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA), Copenhagen, Denmark (2014).
Dean, Division of Continuing Education and External Studies (2013-2014)
Chair, ASME District H (Europe) ESDA Conference Committee (2009 – 2011)
General Chair, 9th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA), Haifa, Israel (2008).
General Chair, 29-th Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering (2003)
Member, Program Committee of the American Control Conference (2003)
President, Israel Association of Automatic Control (2000-2004)
Head, Israeli section of ASME (2002-2011)

Honors and Awards

Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education (2012)
ASME Fellow (2011)
James H. Belfer Chair in Mechanical Engineering (2009)

Selected Publications

Z.J. Palmor and Y. Halevi, “On the Design and Properties of Multivariable Dead Time Compensators”, Automatica, 19(3), 255 – 264, 1983.
Z.J. Palmor and Y. Halevi, “On the Existence of an Optimal Observer in Singular Measurement Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, AC-31, 683-685, 1986.
Y. Halevi and A. Ray, “Integrated Communication and Control Systems: Part I – Analysis”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 110(4), 367 – 373, 1988.
Y. Halevi, “The Optimal Reduced Order Estimator for Systems with Singular Measurement Noise”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-34, 777-781, 1989.
Y. Halevi, “Frequency weighted model reduction via optimal projection equations”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-37, 1537-1542, 1992.
A. Cohen-Jalfon and Y. Halevi, “On partially augmented observers for systems with colored noises”, Int. J. of Control, 57, 335-349, 1993.
Y. Halevi, W.M. Haddad and D.S. Bernstein, “A Riccati equation approach to the singular LQG problem”, Automatica, 29, 773-778, 1993.
Y. Halevi, “Stable LQG controllers”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-39, 2104-2106, 1994.
Y. Halevi, Z.J. Palmor and T. Efrati, “Automatic Tuning of Decentralized PID Controllers for MIMO Processes”. J. of Process Control, 7, 119-128, 1997.
R. Kenigsbuch and Y. Halevi, “Model Updating in Structural Dynamics: A Generalized Reference Basis Approach”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 12(1), 75-90, 1998.
A. Zlochevsky and Y. Halevi, “Parameter Dependent Reduced Order Estimators”, J. of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 22, 846-851, 1999.
Y. Naveh, P.Z. Bar-Yoseph and Y. Halevi,”Nonlinear Modeling and Control of a Unicycle”, Dynamics and Control, 9, 279-296, 1999.
N. Raskin and Y. Halevi, “Rate Feedback Control of a Free-Free Uniform Flexible Rod”, J. of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 24, 1037-1040, 2001.
Y. Halevi, “Approximated Gramians and Balanced Realization of Lightly Damped Flexible Structures “, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 47, 193-198 , 2002.
Y. Halevi, C. A. Morales, and D. J. Inman, “Combined Expansion and Orthogonalization of Experimental Modeshapes”, ASME J. of Vibration and Acoustics, 127, 188-196, 2005.
Y. Halevi, “Control of Flexible Structures Governed by the Wave Equation Using Infinite Dimensional Transfer Functions”, ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 127, 579-588, 2005.
Y. Halevi, “Projection Properties of the Optimal L2 Reduced Order Model”, International J. of Control, 79(4), 298-310, 2006.
Y. Halevi, “On the Class of Reduced Order Models Obtainable by Projection”, Automatica, 42, 2009-2016, 2006.
L. Sirota and Y. Halevi, “Free Response and Absolute Vibration Suppression of Second Order Flexible Structures – The Traveling Wave Approach.”, ASME J. of Vibration and Acoustics, 132 (3), 031008, 2010.
L. Sirota and Y. Halevi, “Extended D’Alembert Solution of Finite Length Second Order Flexible Structures with Damped Boundaries”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 39 (1-2), 47-58, 2013.
I. Peled, W.J. O’Connor and Y. Halevi, “On the relationship between wave based control, absolute vibration suppression and input shaping”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 39 (1-2), 80-90, 2013.
Y. Halevi, E. Carpanzano and G. Montalbano, “Minimum Energy Control of Redundant Linear Manipulators”, ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 136(5), 051016, 2014.
L. Sirota and Y. Halevi, ” Fractional order control of the two-dimensional wave equation”, Automatica. 59 (9), 152-163, 2015.
U. Nusbaum, M. Weiss Cohen and Y. Halevi, “Path Planning and Control of Redundant Manipulators using Bi-level Optimization”, ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 142(4), 041008, 2020.

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