Last Updated July 18, 2007.

Islam Hussein

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
 
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
 
Office: 1.508.831.6631
 
 
Email:
 
     
Background General Research Interests Research Projects
Graduate Students Collaborators Journal Publications
Conference Proceedings PhD Thesis Awards and Honors

 

 

Background

I am an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I received my bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2000. I joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2000 and obtained my masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mathematics in 2002 and my PhD in Aerospace Engineering in 2005. I was a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My research interests are in nonlinear dynamics and control, optimal control theory, dynamic coverage control of sensor-equipped unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles, multiple spacecraft design, optimization and control for high resolution imaging, and robotic systems.
 

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General Research Interests

Detailed research statement

Theory 
  Nonlinear dynamics and control (in particular, geometric mechanics and control), optimal control theory, and cooperative coverage control for multi-agent sensory systems
Applications
Coverage control using cooperative multiple autonomous underwater vehicles, spacecraft formation design, optimization and control for optimal image/fuel performance, motion planning and reliable control of unmanned vehicles and robotic systems, and control of nonholonomic mechanical systems
 

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Research Projects

Control of Unmanned Vehicle Formations
* Spacecraft formation design, optimization and control for optimal image/fuel performance
  * Cooperative coverage control of autonomous sensory agents
  * Stability and control of satellite formations using Coulomb tethers
Optimal Control Theory and Applications
* Optimal control of spacecraft formations for imaging applications
* Optimal control on Riemannian manifolds for nonholonomic, nonlinear systems
  * Optimal motion planning for UAV radar evasion
  * Discrete variational methods for optimal control problems
Robotic Locomotion
  * Motion planning for nonholonomic undulatory motion
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
  * Geometric mechanics and control
 

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Graduate Students

Yue Wang
 

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Journal Publications

1. I. Hussein, A. Sanyal, M. Leok and A. M. Bloch. Variational Discrete Optimal Control on Lie Groups. Numerische Mathematik, under revision.
2. I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Optimal Control of Nonholonomic Under-Actuated Mechanical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2007. Under review.
3. M. Demetriou and I. Hussein. Estimation of spatially distributed processes using mobile spatially distributed sensor network. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2007. Under review.
4. H. Schaub and I. Hussein. Stability and reconfiguration analysis of a circularly spinning 2-craft Coulomb tether. Aerospace Science and Technology (Elsevier), 2007. Under review.
5. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation design for imaging and fuel usage. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2005. Accepted, to appear.
6. I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland and N. H. McClamroch. Optimal fuel-image motion planning for a class of dual spacecraft formations. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2007. Accepted, to appear.
7. I. Hussein and D. Stipanović. Effective Coverage Control for Mobile Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Collision Avoidance. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Special Issue on Multi-Vehicle Systems Cooperative Control with Applications, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 642-657, 2007.
8. I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for multiple spacecraft interferometric imaging. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 69-93, January 2007.
9. I. Hussein and H. Schaub. The Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 96, pp. 137-157, 2006.
10. I. Hussein and D. J. Scheeres. J2 correction for a class of Earth-orbiting interferometric observatories. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2005.
11. B. Gillespie, V. Patoglu, I. Hussein and E. Westervelt. On-line symbolic constraint embedding for simulation of hybrid dynamical systems. Multibody System Dynamics Journal. Vol. 14, No. 3-4, pp. 387-417, November 2005.
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I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Interferometric observatories in earth orbit. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 297–301, 2004
 

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Conference Proceedings

1. I. Hussein. Kalman filtering with optimal sensor motion planning. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2007, under review.
2. I. Hussein, D. Stipanović, and Y. Wang, “Reliable coverage control using heterogeneous vehicles. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, 2007, under review.
3. Y. Wang and I. Hussein. Cooperative vision-based multi-vehicle dynamic coverage control for underwater applications. Proceedings of the IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, 2007, invited paper, to appear.
4. I. Hussein and H. Schaub. Relative equilibria and their stability for the two-spacecraft
Coulomb tether problem. Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2007.
5. I. Hussein and D. Stipanović. Effective coverage control using dynamic sensor networks with flocking and guaranteed collision avoidance. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 3420–3425, invited paper.
6. I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, and F. Zeitz. Optimal motion planning for UAV radar evasion. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 1067–1072.
7. I. Hussein. A Kalman filter-based control strategy for dynamic coverage control. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 3271–3276.
8. I. Hussein and M. A. Demetriou. Estimation of distributed processes using mobile spatially distributed sensors. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 2756–2761, invited paper.
9. I. Hussein. Cooperative effective coverage control using dynamic sensor networks with guaranteed collision avoidance and network connectivity. Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Control and Applications, Montreal, PQ, Canada, 2007, paper No. 568–052, invited paper.
10. S. R. Lindemann, I. Hussein and S. M. LaValle.  Real Time Feedback Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots With Obstacles. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, 2406-2411.
11. I. Hussein and D. M. Stipanović. Effective Coverage Control for Mobile Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 2747–2752.
12. I. Hussein, A. Sanyal, M. Leok and A. M. Bloch. A Discrete Variational Integrator for Optimal Control Problems on SO(3). Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 6636-6641. [arXiv.org]
13. I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Optimal Control of Nonholonomic Under-Actuated Mechanical Systems. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2006, pp. 5590–5595. [arXiv.org]
14. I. Hussein and H. Schaub. The Three-Spacecraft Coulomb Tether Problem. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Tampa, FL, 2006. 
15. I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Constrained optimal trajectory tracking on the group of rigid body motions. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, 2005, pp. 2152-2157.
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I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation control for imaging and fuel usage with terminal imaging constraints. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2005, 352-357.

17. I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Optimal control of under-actuated systems with application to Lie groups. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 1472-1477.
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I. Hussein and A. M. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for interferometric imaging spacecraft formations (part II): The nonlinear case. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 2391-2396.

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I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, D. J. Scheeres, D. C. Hyland and N. H. McClamroch. Optimal fuel-image motion planning for a class of dual spacecraft formations. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 2405-2410.

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I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres and D. C. Hyland. Optimal formation control for imaging and fuel usage. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Copper Mountain, CO, 2005, paper AAS 05-160.

21. I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Dynamic coverage optimal control for interferometric imaging spacecraft formations. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2004, pp. 1812-1817.
22. I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Optimal control on Riemannian manifolds with potential fields. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2004, pp. 1982-1987.
23. I. Hussein and A. Bloch. Dynamic interpolation on Riemannian manifolds: An application to interferometric imaging. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, 2004, pp. 413-418.
24. I. Hussein and D. J. Scheeres. Effects of orbit perturbations on a class of Earth-orbiting interferometric observatories. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Maui, HI, 2004, paper AAS 04-210.
25. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Control of a satellite formation for imaging applications. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Denver, CO, 2003, pp. 308-–313.
26. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Formation path planning for optimal fuel and image quality for a class of interferometric imaging missions. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2003, paper AAS 03-174.
27. I. Hussein, D. J. Scheeres, and D. C. Hyland. Interferometric observatories in Earth orbit. Proceedings of the Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Peurto Rico, 2003, paper AAS 03-172.
28. I. Hussein, S. L. Lacy and D. S. Bernstein. Data compression for subspace-based identification using periodic and non-periodic inputs. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, 2002, pp. 3313--3318.
 

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PhD Thesis

I. Hussein. Motion planning for multi-spacecraft interferometric imaging systems. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2005. (Abstract) (Dissertation)
 

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Awards and Honors

* Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA.
* Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO.
* Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 5/2002, 6/2003, 2/2004 and 6/2004.
* Presidential Scholarship, American University in Cairo, 1997-1998 and 1999-2000.
* On The Honor's Assembly List, American University in Cairo, 1997-2000.
* On the Dean of Students Honor List, American University in Cairo, 1995-2000.
 

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List of Collaborators

* Dennis S. Bernstein
* Anthony M. Bloch
* Michael Demetriou
* Brent Gillespie
* David C. Hyland
* Seth Lacy
* Steven M. LaValle
* Melvin Leok
* Stephen R. Lindemann
* N. Harris McClamroch
* Volkan Patoglu
* Amit Sanyal
* Hanspeter Schaub
* Daniel J. Scheeres
* Dusan Stipanović
* Eric Westervelt
* Fred Zeitz
 

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My Erdos Number

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1. P. Erdos, F. Harary, and W. T. Tutte. On the dimension of a graph. Mathematika, 12, 118-122, 1965.
2. D. E. Cohen, F. Harary and Y. Kodama. On the embedding of complete graphs in orientable surfaces. Mathematika 10, 79-83, 1963.
3. A. M. Bloch, R. W. Brokett, Y. Kodama, and T. Ratiu. Hamiltonian systems, transformation groups and spectral transform methods (Montreal, PQ, 1989), 97--102, Universite de Montréal, Montreal, QC, 1990
4. I. Hussein, A. M. Bloch, D. J. Scheeres and N. H. McClamroch. Optimal fuel-image motion planning for a class of dual spacecraft formations. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. Accepted with revisions.
 

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