(Eric R. Westervelt's Ph.D. Thesis Documentation)
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Eric R. Westervelt is now at The Ohio State University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Publications related to the thesis work
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  1. E.R. Westervelt Toward a Coherent Framework for the Control of Planar Biped Locomotion, Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, June 2003. Also available with double-sided formatting.
  2. J.W. Grizzle, E.R. Westervelt, and C. Canudas de Wit Event-based PI Control of an Underactuated Biped Walker, Preprint, submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003. [Supplemental Material].
  3. C. Chevallereau, G. Abba, Y. Aoustin, F. Plestan, E.R. Westervelt, C. Canduas-de-Wit, and J.W. Grizzle RABBIT: A Testbed for Advanced Control Theory, Preprint, To appear in IEEE Control Systems Magazine; revised April, 2003; submitted September, 2002. [Supplemental Material].
  4. Franck Plestan, J.W. Grizzle, Eric Westervelt and Gabriel Abba, Stable Walking of a 7-DOF Biped Robot. Preprint, to appear in IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, August 2003. [Supplemental Material] ; original submission date: Feb. 2001.
  5. E.R. Westervelt, J.W. Grizzle, and C. Canudas de Wit Switching and PI Control for Planar Biped Walkers, Reprint, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;Vol. 48, N0. 2, February 2003, pp. 308-312. [Supplemental Material].
  6. E.R. Westervelt, J.W. Grizzle, and D.E. Koditschek, Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Biped Walkers. Reprint, IEEE-TAC, Vol. 48, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 42-56. [Supplemental Material].
  7. E.R. Westervelt and J.W. Grizzle, Sequential Composition of Walking Motions for a 5-Link Planar Biped Walker, Reprint, WORKSHOP ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN NONLINEAR CONTROL OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, October 2, 2002,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. [Supplemental Material]. The talk inlcuded results from C. Chevallereau, G. Abba, Y. Aoustin, F. Plestan, E.R. Westervelt, C. Canduas-de-Wit, and J.W. Grizzle RABBIT: A Testbed for Advanced Control Theory, Preprint, To appear in IEEE Control Systems Magazine; revised April, 2003; submitted September, 2002. [Supplemental Material].
  8. E.R. Westervelt and J.W. Grizzle, Design of Asymptotically Stable Walking for a 5-Link Planar Biped Walker via Optimization. Reprint, ICRA-2002, May 10-17, 2002, Washington, DC.
  9. E.R. Westervelt, J.W. Grizzle, and D.E. Koditschek, Zero Dynamics of Underactuated Planar Biped Walkers. Reprint, IFAC-2002, Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002.
  10. Franck Plestan, J.W. Grizzle, Eric Westervelt and Gabriel Abba, Controlled Periodic Motion in a Nonlinear System with Impulse Effects: Walking of a Biped Robot. Reprint, IFAC NOLCOS-2001, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 4-6, 2001.
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