Faculty Profile

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E-mail address: ecollins@eng.fsu.edu
B346 CEB, (850) 410-6373

Emmanuel G. Collins, John H. Seely Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 1987 and also holds B.S. degrees from Morehouse College and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He spent 7 years in research and development at the Harris Corporation, prior to joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in August 1994 . Dr. Collins teaches courses in controls, robotics and dynamics. His research interests include motion planning and control for mobile robots, human-robot interaction and collaboration, fault detection and isolation, control in manufacturing, applications of advanced robust control techniques, robust control, fluidic thrust vector control, and control of propulsion systems. Dr. Collins served for over 8 years as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and is the author of almost 200 technical publications.

Published Articles

M. Selekwa, D. Dunlap, E. G. Collins, Jr., and D. Shi, "Robot Navigation in Very Cluttered Environments By Preference-Based Fuzzy Behaviors," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, accepted for publication. (Available at doi:10.1016/j.robot.2007.07.006.)
Shi, E. G. Collins Jr., and D. Dunlap, "Robot Navigation in Cluttered 3-D Environments using Preference-Based Fuzzy Behaviors," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 1486-1499, December 2007. (Available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/3477/4374182/04359278.pdf?tp=&arnumber=4359278&isnumber=4374182)
Y. Zhao, E. G. Collins, Jr., F. Alvi, and D. Dores, "Design and Implementation of Feedback Control for Counterflow Thrust Vectoring," AIAA Journal of Propulsion, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 815-821, September-October 2005.
T. D. Curry and E. G. Collins, Jr., "Robust Fault Detection and Isolation Using Robust l1 Estimation," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 1131-1139, Nov.-Dec. 2005.
C. Fan, E. G. Collins, Jr., C. Liu, and B. Wang, "Radial Error Feedback Control for Bar Turning in CNC Turning Centers,'' ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 125, pp. 77-84, February 2003.