B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1984

Professional Experience:

4/02-present: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

4/96-4/02: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

8/96-present: Faculty, Biomechanics & Movement Science Program, Univ. of Delaware

8/05-4/06: Consultant, Bally Ribbon Mills, Bally, PA

6/04-7/04: Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering, ADFA, Canberra, Australia

1/04-9/04: Guest Researcher, Intelligent Systems Division, NIST

6/03-8/03: Visiting Professor, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

1/03-12/03: Guest Researcher, Intelligent Systems Division, NIST

9/02-1/03: Consultant, DLR, Inst. for Robotics and Mechatronics, Wessling, Germany

6/02-8/02: Visiting Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

3/02-6/02: Consultant, DLR, Inst. for Robotics and Mechatronics, Wessling, Germany

3/01-9/01: Senior Scientist (IPA), Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, Florida

1/00-12/02: Consultant, Pathway Technologies, Philadelphia

6/15/00-7/5/00: Visiting Fellow, Electrical Engineering, ADFA, Canberra, Australia

3/00 – 4/00: Visiting Researcher, Mechatronics Division, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

3/99-12/00: Consultant, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California

1/98-5/98: Visiting Associate, Control and Dynamic Systems, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

8/95-3/96: Associate Professor of Mech. Eng., Ohio University, Athens, OH

9/90-7/95: Assistant Professor of Mech. Eng., Ohio University, Athens, OH

8/95-12/95: Humboldt Research Fellow, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

8/94-12/94: Humboldt Research Fellow, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

6/94-8/94: AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow, WPAFB, Dayton

7/88-9/88: General Motors Research Lab Summer Intern, Warren, MI

1/87-8/90: Research Assistant, Robotics Laboratory, Stanford University

9/84-9/86: University Graduate Fellow, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

External Awards and Honors:

Best All Rounder Student Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur, 1984.

NSF Research Initiation Award, 1991.
NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, White House, 1994.
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, 1994, 1995.

Fritz and Dolores Russ Research Award, Ohio University, 1994.
Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Constraints in Control, CC 1999, Alexandria, VA

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2002, 2003.
Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright Foundation, 2002-2003 (declined).

Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2004.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Distinguished Lecturer, 2004-2007.

Annual Biomimicry Prize, 28^th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 2004, for the technical paper entitled “Biologically Inspired Design of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles Using 4-Bar Mecahnisms and Quasi-Steady Aerodynamics”.

Keynote Speaker, National Conference on Control and Dynamical Systems, IIT, Bombay, Jan 2005.
Guest Speaker, IDGA Sponsored UAV Summit - Combat and Micro, Washington DC, March 2005.

Panel Member of the Academic Program Review Board of UD Mathematical Sciences Department, 2006.
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Journal Management Board, 2006-2008.

Technical Editorial Boards:

· International Journal of Robotics Research, Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Machine Systems for Human Augmentation, March 2007.

· Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Novel Robotics and Control, March 2006.

· IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Guest Editor for a Focused Section on Biomimetics and Novel Aspects in Robotics, April 2006.

· Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Associate Technical Editor, 6/04-6/07.

· IEEE Transactions of Robotics and Automation, Associate Technical Editor, 12/00 – 12/01.

· Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Associate Technical Editor, 8/00-8/03.

· IEEE Transactions of Control Systems Technology, Associate Technical Editor, 1/01-12/02.

· Multi-body Systems Dynamics, Editorial Board, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996-2003.

· IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, 1/00-12/00.

Professional Activities:

· Chair, Technical Committee on Mechanisms and Robotics, ASME Design Division, 2006

· Conference Chair, ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 2005.

· Member of Technical Committee, BioRob, 2006, Pisa.

· Program Chair, ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 2004.

· Co-Chair of International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 2005, Nanjing

· IUTAM Symposium on Vibration Control of Nonlinear Mechanisms and Structures, 2005.

· Chair of Robotics Technical Panel of ASME Dynamic System and Control Division, 2003-2006.

· IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006.

· ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (Chair, Dynamics Symposium): 2002.

· Workshop on Future Research Directions for Parallel Mechanisms and Manipulators, Quebec 2002.

· IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA): 2000.

· IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 1999, 2001.

Session Chair at Conferences:

· ASME Mechanisms Conference: 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005.

· IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA): 2000.

· IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

· American Control Conference (ACC): 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

· IEEE Control Decision Conference (CDC): 1999.

· International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC), 1999, 2002.

· International Federation for Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM), 1995.

· International Conference on Advanced Robotics: 1995.

· ASME Winter Annual Meting: 1990.

National Program Review Boards:

· Panelist for NSF Career Awards, Dynamic Systems & Control Program: 1995, 1997.

· Panelist for NSF Awards, Robotics and Human Augmentation Program: 2003.

· Panelist for NSF Awards Dynamic Systems and Control Program: 2001, 2002.

· Panelist for NSF Awards, Mechanics and Materials Program: 1995.

· Proposal Reviewer for NSF, Dynamic Systems and Control Program: 1992-94, 2005.

Books:

· Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht,

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5681-0, April 1999, 240 pp.

Authors: Sunil K. Agrawal, University of Delaware & Prof. Brian C. Fabien, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

· Differentially Flat Systems, Marcel Dekker (Control Engineering Series)

(Hardbound, ISBN 0-8247-5470-0, June 2004; Pages: 467)

Authors: Prof. Hebertt Sira-Ramirez, Department of Electrical Engineering, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico and Sunil K. Agrawal

· Optimization of Kinematics and Dynamics of Robotic Systems, CRC Press

(Expected Date: December 2006; Pages: 500)

Authors: Sunil K. Agrawal and Prof. K. Kurien Issac, IIT Bombay

Technical Publications:

Archival Journal Papers (95 Published/Accepted listed here)

Refereed Conference Papers (10 out of 130 listed, Detailed list available on request)

Special Issue Journal Editorials

S. K. Agrawal, V. Krovi, and M. O’Malley, “Special Issue on Novel Robotics and Control – Guest Editorial”, IEEE Transactions in Mechatronics, Vol. 11, Number 2, April 2006, 117-118

S. K. Agrawal and V. Krovi, “Guest Editorial – Introduction to the Focused Section on Biomimetics and Novel Aspects Robotics –”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Vol. 28, 2006, 1-2.

S. K. Agrawal and A. G. Erdman, “Biomedical Assist Devices and New Biomimetic Machines – A Short Perspective”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 799-801.

Cable Suspended Robots: Systems with Unilateral Inputs

S. Oh and S. K. Agrawal, “Generation of Feasible Set Points and Control of a Cable Suspended Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2006, 551-558.

S. Oh and S. K. Agrawal, “Determination of Reachable Sets for Control of a Cable Suspended Robot with Input Constraints and Disturbances”, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2006, 735-742.

S. Oh, K. Mankala, S. K. Agrawal, and J. Albus, “Dynamic Modeling and Robust Controller Design of a 2-Stage Parallel Cable Robot”, Multibody System Dynamics, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2005, 385-399.

S. Oh and S. K. Agrawal, “A Reference Governor Based Controller for a Cable Robot Under Input Constraints”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2005, 639-645.

Fattah and S. K. Agrawal, “On the Optimal Design and Workspace Analysis of Planar Cable-suspended Robots”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 1021-1028.

S. Oh, K. Mankala, S. K. Agrawal, and J. Albus, “Dual Stage Planar Cable Robot : Dynamic Modeling and Design of A Robust Controller with Positive Inputs”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 612-620.

S. Oh and S. K. Agrawal, “Cable Suspended Planar Robots with Redundant Cables: Controllers with Positive Tension”, IEEE Transactions of Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2005, 457-465.

Cable Suspended Robots from a Helicopter

S. Oh., K. Pathak, S. K. Agrawal, H. R. Pota, and M. Garratt, “Autonomous Helicopter Landing on a Moving Platform Using a Tether”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2006, 536-544.

S. Oh, J. Ryu and S. K. Agrawal, “Dynamics and Control of a Helicopter Carrying a Payload using a Cable Suspended Robot”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 128, September 2006, 1113-1121.

Cable Transporter Systems: High-rise Elevators

Y. Zhang and S. K. Agrawal, “Lyapunov Controller Design for Transverse Vibration of a Cable-Linked Transporter System”, Multibody System Dynamics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2006, 287-304.

Yuhong Zhang, Sunil Agrawal, and Peter Hagedorn, “Logitudinal Vibration Modeling and Control of Flexible Transporter System with Arbitrarily Varying Cable Lengths”, Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 11, 2005, 431-456.

Y. Zhang, H. R. Pota, S. K. Agrawal, I. Peterson, “Minimax Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control of Longitudinal Vibration for Cable Transporter Systems with Multiplicative Nonparametric Uncertainties”, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2005, 137-144.

H. R. Pota, Sunil K. Agrawal and Y. Zhang, “A Flatness Based Approach to Residual Motion Suppression of High-rise Elevators”, Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 10, 2004, 1441-1457.

Tethered Satellite Systems: Deployment and Station Keeping

K. Mankala and S. K. Agrawal, “Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Satellite Tethered Systems”, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, No. 2, 2005, 144-156.

K. K. Mankala and S. K. Agrawal, “Equilibrium-to-Equilibrium Maneuvers of Flexible Electrodynamic Tethers in Equatorial Orbits”, to appear in AIAA Journal of Spacecrafts and Rockets, 2006.

K. K. Mankala and S. K. Agrawal, “Equilibrium-to-Equilibrium Maneuvers of Rigid Electrodynamic Tethers”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 28, Number 3, 2005, 541-545.

K. Mankala and S. K. Agrawal, “Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Impact in Tether Net/Gripper Systems”, Multi-body Systems Dynamics, 2004, Vol. 11, 235-250.

K. Mankala and S. K. Agrawal, “A Boundary Controller based on Linear Infinite Dimensional System for Station Keeping of a Tethered Satellite System”, American Control Conference, 2006.

Planning and Control of Indoor/Outdoor Mobile Robots

K. Pathak and S. K. Agrawal, “Band-Limited Trajectory Planning and Tracking for certain Dynamically-Stabilized Autonomous Robots”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Vol. 28, 2006, 106-111.

Pathak and S, K. Agrawal, “An Integrated Path-Planning and Control Approach for Nonholonomic Unicycles using Switched Local Potentials”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2005, 1201-1207.

K. Pathak and S. K. Agrawal, “An Integrated Spatial Path-planning and Controller Design Approach for a Hover-modeHelicopter Model”, In proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005.

Y. Hao, B. Laxton, E. R. Benson, and S. K. Agrawal, "Differential Flatness Based Formation Following of a Simulated Autonomous Small Grain Harvesting System", Transactions of the ASAE, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2004, 933-941.

Unmanned Ground Robots in Groups

Y. Hao and S. K. Agrawal, “Planning and Control of UGV Formations in a Dynamic Environment: A Practical Framework with Experiments”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 51, 2005, 101-110.

Y. Hao and S. K. Agrawal, "Formation Planning and Control of UGVs with Trailer", Autonomous Robots, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2005, 257-270.

Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (Segway Robots)

K. Pathak and S. K. Agrawal, “Band-Limited Trajectory Planning and Tracking for certain Dynamically-Stabilized Autonomous Robots”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Vol. 28, 2006, 106-111.

K. Pathak, J. Franch, and S. K. Agrawal, “Velocity and Position Control of a Wheeled Inverted Pendulum by Partial Feedback Linearization”, IEEE Transactions of Robotics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2005, 505-513.

Parallel Actuated Robots

J. Pusey, A. Fattah, and S. Agrawal, and E. Messina, “Design and Workspace Analysis of a 6-6 Cable-Suspended Parallel Robot”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2004, Vol. 39, 761-778.

Zlatanov, S. K. Agrawal, and C. Gosselin, “Convex Cones in Screw Spaces”, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, Vol. 40, 2005, 710-727.

S. K. Agrawal, “Workspace Boundaries of In-parallel Manipulator Systems”, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, 94-99.

S. K. Agrawal and B. Roth, “Statics of In-parallel Manipulators”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 114, No. 4, 1992, 564-568.

Bipeds and Locomotion

V. Sangwan and S. K. Agrawal, “Generation of Leg-like Motion and Limit Cycles with an Underactuated Two DOF Linkage”, In Proceedings of the BioRob, 2006.

Agrawal and S. K. Agrawal, “An Energy Efficient Manipulator Design Approach: Application To A Leg In Swing Phase”, to appear in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2006.

Agrawal and S. K. Agrawal, “An Approach to Identify Joint Motions for Dynamically Stable Walking”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 128, May 2006, 649-653.

S. K. Agrawal and A. Fattah, “Design and Control Approaches for a Novel Planar Biped with Nearly Linear Dynamics”, IEEE Transactions in Mechatronics, Vol. 11, Number 2, April 2006, 162-168.

S. K. Agrawal and V. Sangwan, “Design of Underactuated Open-Chain Planar Robots for Repetitive Cyclic Motions”, to appear in the ASME IDETC 2006 (submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions of Robotics).

Flapping Wing Flying Machines

K. K. Issac and S. K. Agrawal, “Minimum Power Flight of a Mechanical Pigeon and Comparison with its Biological Counterparts”, accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2006.

S. McIntosh, S. K. Agrawal, Z. A. Khan, “Design of a Mechanism for Biaxial Rotation of a Wing for a Hovering Vehicle”, IEEE Transactions in Mechatronics, Vol. 11, Number 2, April 2006, 145-153.

R. Madangopal, Z. A. Khan, and S. K. Agrawal, “Energetics Based Design of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2006, 433-438.

R. Madangopal, Z. Khan, and S. K. Agrawal, “Biologically Inspired Design of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles Using Four Bar Mechanisms and Quasi-Steady Aerodynamics”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 809-816.

S. Banala and S. K. Agrawal, “Design and Optimization of a Mechanism for Out of Plane Insect Wing Like Motion With Twist”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 841-844.

Z. A. Khan and S. K. Agrawal, “Design of Flapping Mechanism Based on Transverse Bending Phenomena in insects”, In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006.

Z. A. Khan and S. K. Agrawal, “Modeling and Simulation of Flapping Wing Micro Air vehicles”, In Proceedings ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 2005.

Z. A. Khan and S. K. Agrawal, “Wing Force and Moment Characterization of Flapping Wings for Micro Air Vehicle Application”, In proceedings American Control Conference, 2005.

Novel Design of Man-Machine Systems

S. K. Agrawal and J. Ryu, “Design of Dissipative and Stable Assist Robots” , to appear in the ASME IDETC 2006 (submitted for publication in Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME).

J. Ryu, K. Pathak, and S. K. Agrawal, “Control of a Passive Mobility Assistive Robot”, In Proceedings of the ASME IMECE, 2006.

S. K. Agrawal, S. Banala, A. Fattah, V. Krishnamoorthy, W. L. Hsu, J. P. Scholz, “A Gravity Balancing Passive Exoskeleton for the Human Leg”, to appear in Robotic Systems and Science, 2006.

Medical Robotics

S. Banala, S. K. Agrawal, A. Fattah, J. P. Scholz, V. Krishnamoorthy, K. Rudolph, W. L. Hsu, “Gravity Balancing Leg Orthosis and its Performance Evaluation”, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. in Robotics, 2006.

Agrawal, S. Banala, S. K. Agrawal, S.Binder-Macleod, “Design of a Two Degree-of-Freedom Ankle-Foot Orthosis for Robotic Rehabilitation”, accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2006.

Fattah and S. K. Agrawal, “Prototype of a Gravity-Balanced Assist Device for Sit-to-stand Tasks”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 128, Sept 2006, 1122-1129.

S. Banala and S. K. Agrawal, “Gait Rehabilitation With An Active Leg Orthosis”, In Proceedings ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, 2005.

Abbas Fattah and Sunil K. Agrawal, “On the Design of a Gravity Balanced Human Leg with Passive Orthosis”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 127, 2005, 802-808.

Agrawal and S. K. Agrawal, “Design of Gravity Balancing Leg Orthosis Using Non-Zero Free Length Springs”, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, Vol. 40, Issue 6, 2005, 693-709.

S. K. Agrawal and A. Fattah, “Theory and Design of an Orthotic Device for Full or Partial Gravity-Balancing of a Human Leg During Motion”, IEEE Transactions on Neural systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2004, Vol. 12, No. 2, 157-165.

Rahul Rao, Sunil K. Agrawal, John P. Scholz, “A Robot Test-bed for Assistance and Assessment in Physical Therapy”, Advanced Robotics, Vol. 14, No. 7, 2000, 565-578.

Stephen Pledgie, Kenneth E. Barner, Sunil K. Agrawal, and Tariq Rahman, “Tremor Suppression Through Impedance Control”, IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2000, 53-59.

Design of Reactionless Robots

Fattah and S. K. Agrawal, “On the Design of Planar Reactionless Parallel Mechanisms'”, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, Vol. 41, No. 1 pp 70-82, 2005.

Fattah and S. K. Agrawal, “Design and Simulation of Classes of Spatial Reactionless Manipulators”, Robotica, Vol. 23 , Issue 01, 2005, 75-81.

S. K. Agrawal and A. Fattah, “Reactionless Space and Ground Robots: Novel Designs and Concept Studies”, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, 2004, Vol. 39, 25-40.

Gravity Balancing of Robots and Machines

A. Fattah and S. K. Agrawal, “Gravity-Balancing of Classes of Industrial Robots”, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006.

S. K. Agrawal and A. Fattah, “Gravity-Balancing of Spatial Open-Chain Manipulators”, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, Vol. 39, 2004, 1331-1344.

S. K. Agrawal and A. Fattah, “Design and Prototype of a Gravity-Balanced Leg Orthosis”, International Journal of Human-Friendly Welfare Robotic Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2003, 13-16.

Sunil K. Agrawal, Glenn Gardner, Stephen Pledgie, “Design and Fabrication of a Gravity Balanced Planar Mechanism Using Auxiliary Parallelograms”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 123, No. 4, 2001, 525-528.

Gokce and S. K. Agrawal, “Mass Center of Planar Mechanisms Using Auxiliary Parallelograms”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of ASME, Vol. 121, No. 1, 1999, 166-168.

Robotics for Art and Museums

Sunil K. Agrawal, Saravana Kumar, and Mark Yim, “Single Degree-of-freedom Polyhedral Expanding Structures”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 124, No. 2, 2002, 473-478.

F. M. J. Pfister and S. K. Agrawal, “Analytical Dynamics of Unrooted Multibody Systems with Symmetries”, Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 121, No. 3, 1999, 440-447.

Spherical Ball-like Robots

Shourov Bhattacharya and Sunil K. Agrawal, Design, Experiments, and Motion Planning of a Spherical Rolling Robots, IEEE Transactions of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 16, No. 6, 2000, 835-838.

Optimization of Dynamic Systems

Tawiwat Veeraklaew and Sunil K. Agrawal, “Neighboring Optimal Feedback Law for Higher-Order Dynamic Systems”, Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 124, No. 3, 2002, 492-497.

Jaume Franch and Sunil K. Agrawal, “Optimal Control of Bolza and Transformed Mayer Problems with Feedback Linearized State Equations”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2001, 1043-1045.

M. Schlemmer and S. K. Agrawal, “A Real-time Computational Approach for Time-Optimal Planning of Linear Systems: Applications to High-rise Elevators”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2001, 105-111.

S. K. Agrawal, X. Xu, and N. Faiz, “Optimization of Bilinear Systems Using Higher-Order Variational Method”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 105, No. 1, April 2000, 55-72.

X. Xu and S. K. Agrawal, “Finite-Time Optimal Control of Polynomial Systems Using Successive Approximation”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 105, No. 2, May 2000, 477-489.

Xiaochun Xu and Sunil K. Agrawal, “Linear Time-Varying Dynamic Systems Optimization Via Higher-Order Method: A Sub-Domain Approach”, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Transactions of the ASME,<