Bourns College of Engineering

Awards

•Notre Dame Center for Applied Mathematics Fellowship
•Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Recognition Award, May 1991
•Engineering Vice President's Annual Award for Best Technical Publication, 1990
•Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Recognition Award, May 1993
•Distinguished Service Award, Association for Unmanned Vechicle Systems, June 28 - 30, 1993, Washington, D.C.
•IEEE Fellow, 2008

Research Area

Research Specialization: Dr. Farrell's expertise is in estimation and control for nonlinear dynamic systems. Current research includes adaptive approximation based control systems, aided navigation systems and autonomous vehicles.

Publications

Dr. Farrell has published three books and over 150 technical papers. He has presented three workshops at IEEE sponsored conferences. His sponsored research exceeds $3.0M. Below is a list of selected publications:

A.N. Michel, J.A. Farrell, W. Porod, ''Qualitative analysis of neural networks,'' IEEE Trans. Circuits & Syst., vol. 36, pp. 229-243, 1989.

J.A. Farrell, "Stability and approximator convergence in nonparametric nonlinear adaptive control," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1008-1020, 1998.

J.A. Farrell, T. Givargis, M. Barth, "Real-time differential carrier phase GPS-aided INS," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol 8, no. 4, pp. 709-721, 2000.

J.Y. Choi, J.A. Farrell, "Adaptive observer based backstepping control using neural networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol 12, no. 5, pp. 1103-1112, 2002.

J.A. Farrell, H.S. Tan, Y. Yang, ''Carrier Phase GPS-aided INS based Vehicle Lateral Control,'' ASME Journal of Dynamics Systems, Measurement, & Control, 125, 3, 339-353, 2003.

J.A. Farrell, S. Pang, W. Li, "Chemical Plume Tracing via an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle," IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering, 30, 2, 428-442, 2005.

J.A. Farrell, M. Sharma, M. Polycarpou, "On-line Approximation Based Fixed-Wing Aircraft Control," March, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 28, 6, 1089-1102, 2005.

J. A. Farrell, M. M. Polycarpou. “Adaptive Approximation Based Control: Unifying Neural, Fuzzy and Traditional Adaptive Approximation Approaches”, John Wiley, 436 pp., 8 chapters, 2006.

S. Pang, J. A. Farrell, ''Chemical Plume Source Localization,'' IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 36, 5, 1068-1080, 2006.

Y. Zhao, J. A. Farrell, ''Self-organizing Approximation Based Control for Higher Order Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18, 4, November 2006, 1220-1231, 2007

J.A. Farrell, ''Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors,'' twelve chapters, New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 552 pp, 2008.

W. Dong and J. A. Farrell, ''Cooperative Control of Multiple Nonholonomic Mobile Agents,'' October, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 53, 6, July 2008, 1434-1448.

For additional information, please see Professor Farrell's faculty webpage.

http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~farrell

Former Institution

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Biography

Jay A. Farrell received B.S. degrees (1986) in physics and electrical engineering from Iowa State University, and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1989) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. At Charles Stark Draper Lab (1989-1994), he was principal investigator on projects involving intelligent and learning control systems for autonomous vehicles. Dr. Farrell received the Engineering Vice President's Best Technical Publication Award in 1990, and Recognition Awards for Outstanding Performance and Achievement in 1991 and 1993. He is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He has served as Vice President Finance and Vice President of Technical Activities for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is Vice General Chair of the 2011 and Genral Chair of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2008) and author of over 150 technical publications. He is author of the book “Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors” (McGraw-Hill 2008). He is also co-author of the books “The Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation” (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and “Adaptive Approximation Based Control: Unifying Neural, Fuzzy and Traditional Adaptive Approximation Approaches” (John Wiley 2006).