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J. William Goodwine

Associate Professor
Associate Chairman
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education: Ph.D. - California Institute of Technology, 1997; M.S. - California Institute of Technology, 1993, J.D - Harvard University, 1991; B.S. - University of Notre Dame, 1988

Research Interests: Geometric Non-Linear Control Theory wtih Robotic Applications, Engineering Mechanics and Dynamics

Courses: Fundamentals of Engineering Computing; Differential Equations, Vibrations and Controls I; Differential Equations, Vibrations and Controls II

Email: jgoodwin@nd.edu

Phone: 574.631.3283

Office: 365B Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering

Website: http://controls.ame.nd.edu/~bill/

Bill Goodwine's research interests are in nonlinear control, dynamical systems, applied mechanics and predictive biosimulation. The nonlinear control research efforts are focused on distributed and multi-agent coordination problems and stratified control with application to robotic manipulation and locomotion. The applied mechanics research efforts are directed toward control of mechanical systems, specifically, control analysis and design methodologies that exploit the fact that the equations of motion represent a mechanical system. The predictive biosimulation research is focused on developing and validating models of human physiology, specifically models for whole-body glucose and fatty acid uptake, storage and oxidation and the regulation thereof.

Selected Publications

  • Dayu Lv and Bill Goodwine, "Pancreas Modeling by a Deterministic Optimization Method," 2010, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, in print.
  • M. Brett McMickell and Bill Goodwine, "Rigid Body Motion Planning for Nonlinear Symmetric Distributed Robotic Formation," International Journal of Robotics Research, 2007,26:10, pp. 1025-1042.
  • Sorour Alotaibi, Mihir Sen, Bill Goodwine and K.T. Yang, "Flow-based control of temperature in long ducts," 2004, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 47, pp. 4995-5009.
  • M. Brett McMickell and Bill Goodwine, 2003, "Reduction and Controllability of Nonlinear Symmetric Distributed Systems," International Journal of Control, 76:18, pp. 1809-1822.
  • Yejun Wei and Bill Goodwine, "Stratified Manipulation on Non-Smooth Domains," 2004, IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, 20: 1, pp. 128-132

Graduate Students

  • Baoyang Deng
  • Dayu Lv
  • Alice Nightingale (w/Jumper)
  • Michael O'Connor
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