Pak
Cheung Edgar An
Professor
Department of
Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Florida
Atlantic University
Boca Raton,
FL 33431
ofc: 561.297.2792, fax: 561.297.3885
1. Education
PhD, Department
of Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire,
May, 1991.
MSEE, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire,
Durham, New Hampshire, May, 1988.
BSEE, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, May, 1985.
2.
Professional Experience
Associate Professorship (2000-present)
Assistant Professorship (1995-2000)
Visiting Assistant Professorship (1994-1995)
Post-doctoral Fellowship (1991-1994)
Machine Vision Development (Summer of 1991)
Research Assistantship (1987-1991)
Teaching Assistantship (1985-1987)
3. Teaching
Experience
Courses Taught
Intelligent Underwater Vehicle (EOC 6663)
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Navigation (EOC 6934)
Dynamical Systems (EOC4620)
Engineering Laboratory (EOC3130C)
Real-Time Ocean Systems (EOC4610)
Environmental and Ocean Data Analysis (EOC3631)
Digital Electronics (EEL3341)
totAL m.s. tHESIS CHAIRING = 0
Total m.s. Thesis chaired = 6
Total PhD thesis serving = 0
total phd thesis served = 7
totAL m.s. tHESIS serving = 0
totAL m.s. tHESIS SERVED = 14
4. Refereed
Publications
An Intelligent Driver
Warning System, C.J.
Harris, J.M. Roberts, P.E. An, 32p, book chapter, Knowledge-Based Intelligent
Techniques in Industry, editor L.C. Jain, CRC Press, 1998.
Modeling and Simulation
of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Design and Implementation, H.
Song, E. An, A. Folleco, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Oceanic
Engineering.
Submesoscale
coastal ocean dynamics: A synergistic approach, Shay, L. K.,
T. M. Cook, P. E. An, Smith, S., H. Peters, A. Soloviev, R. Weisberg, A. J.
Mariano, J. Van Leer and M. Luther. IEEE
Transactions on Oceanic Engineering,(in preparation for JAOT)
Very High Frequency Radar Mapping of Surface
Currents, L. Shay, T. Cook, H. Peters, R. Weisberg, E. An, A.
Soloviev, Vol.27, No.2, pp.155-169, IEEE Transactions on Oceanic Engineering, April, 2002.
An AUV Survey in the Littoral Zone: Small-scale
Subsurface Variability Accompanying Synoptic Observations of Surface Currents, M.
Dhanak, E. An, K. Holappa, IEEE
Transactions on Oceanic Engineering,Vol.26, No.4, pp.752-768, October
2001.
Enhancement of the
Inertial Navigation System for the MORPHEUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, G. Grenon,
E. An, S. Smith, A. Healey, Vol.26, No.4, pp.548-560, IEEE Transactions of Oceanic Engineering,
October 2001.
Morpheus: Ultra Modular AUV for Coastal Survey and
Reconnaissance, S. M. Smith, P. E.An, K. Holappa, J. Whitney, A. Burns, K. Nelson, E. Heatzig, O. Kempfe,
E. Henderson, D. Kronen, T. Pantelakis, G. Font, R. Dunn, S. E. Dunn, Vol.26,
No.4, pp.453-465, IEEE
Transactions of Oceanic Engineering, October, 2001.
Design Time Optimal Robust Nonlinear Controllers for
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Comparison of Simulated and At-sea Test
Data, Feijun Song, Edgar An, Samuel M. Smith, Journal of
Vibration and Control, (in press)
Coastal Oceanography Using a Small AUV, An, E., M. Dhanak, L. K. Shay, S. Smith, and J. VanLeer, J. Atmos. Oceanogr. Tech., Vol.18, pp.215-234, February, 2001.
VIA GIS, Internet Techniques AUV Visualization, Data
Processing, A. Delarue, S. Smith, E. An, E. Fernandez, Sea Technology,
Vol. 41, No. 5, pp.10-14, May, 2000.
VHF Radar Detects Submesoscale Vortex Along the Florida Coast, Shay, L. K., T. M. Cook, H. Peters, J. VanLeer, A. Mariano, P. E. An, S. Smith, B. K. Haus, J. Martinez, A. Soloviev, R. Weisberg and M. Luther, EOS, 81 (19), pp.209-213, 2000.
An Experimental Database of
the Ocean Explorer AUV for Self-Motion Controlled Study, P.E. An, S.M. Smith, IEEE Transactions
on Oceanic Engineering, Vol.23, No.3, pp.274-285, July, 1998.
Strategies for Simultaneous
Multiple AUV Operation and Control,
S.M. Smith, K. Ganesan, P.E. An, S.E. Dunn, International Journal of Systems
Science, Vol.29, No.10, pp.1045-1063, 1998.
A Neurofuzzy Approach to
Fuzzy Intelligent Driver Support Systems, C.J. Harris, N.D. Matthews, P.E. An, J.M Roberts, IMechE
Journal, Vol.212, Part D, pp.43-58, 1998.
On the Convergence Rate
Performance of the Normalized Least-Mean-Square Adaptation, P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol.8, No.5, pp.1211-1213, September, 1997.
Weighted Mixture of Locally
Generalized Experts for On-line Learning, P.E. An, Mathematics of Neural Networks: Models,
Algorithms and Applications, pp.67-72, editor S.W. Ellacott, J. Mason,
I.J.Anderson, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Vehicle Detection and
Recognition in Greyscale Imagery,
N.D. Matthews, C.J. Harris, P.E. An, Control Engineering Practice, Vol.4, No.4,
pp.473-479, 1996.
An Intelligent Driver
Warning System for Vehicle Collision Avoidance, P.E. An, C.J. Harris, IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp.254-261, March, 1996.
A Global Gradient Noise Covariance
Expression for Stationary Real Gaussian Inputs, P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.1549-1551, November, 1995.
Associative Memory
Networks: Adaptive Modelling Theory, Software Implementation
and Graphical User Interface,
P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, A. J. Lawrence, C. J. Moore, Journal of
Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.7, No.1, pp.1-21,
1994.
Comparative Aspects of
Neural Network Algorithms for On-line Modelling of Dynamic Processes, P.E. An, M. Brown, S. Chen, C.J.
Harris, Journal of Institute of Mechnical Engineering, Vol.207, pp.223-241,
1993.
4.2
Conference
Design
Time Optimal Robust Nonlinear Controllers for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
with Comparison of Simulated and At-sea Test Data, F. Song, P.E. An, S. M. Smith,
Technical Session on Active Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 8th
Conference on Nonlinear Vibrations, Stability & Dynamics of Structures,
July, 2000.
Software Development of the
Hardware-in-the-loop Implementation and 3D Viewer for Ocean Explorer, Frederi Mahieu, Andres
Folleco, Edgar An, Sam Smith, SPIE 2000, April, Orlando, Florida.
Four
Dimensional Coastal Ocean Dynamics Detected by Ocean Surface Current Radar and
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,
L.K. Shay, P.E. An, US/UK Modeling Workshop.
Using Small AUVS For Oceanographic Measurements, M. Dhanak, E. An, K. Holappa, S. Smith, Oceans 99, Vol. 3, pp.1410-1417, Seattle, Washington, 1999.
AUV data processing and visualization using GIS and Internet techniques, A. Delarue, S. Smith, E. An, Oceans 99, Vol.2, pp.738-742, Seattle, Washington, 1999.
Shallow Water Multiplexer Development for the South Florida Ocean Measurement Center (SFOMC), E. An, R. Coulson, J. Webb, D. Williams, R. Reibman, S. Dunn, Oceans 99, Vol. 2, pp.1009-1016, Seattle, Washington, 1999.
The Challenge of
Submesoscale Coastal Ocean Dynamics,
N. Shay, P.E. An, submitted to UK/US
Ocean Modeling Workshop, January, 1999.
An Ultra Modular Plastic
Mini AUV Platform for VSW Mine Reconnaissance, S. Smith, P. An, D. Kronen, R. Dunn, J. Whitney, J.
Frankenfield, T. Pantelakis, A. Burns, E. Heatzig, SPIE Aerosense, Orlando,
Florida, April, 1999.
Results
of an Experiment Using AUVs for Shallow Water Mine Reconnaissance, S. Smith, P. An, R. Christensen, J.
Kloske, S. Snowden, D. Kronen, L. Marquis, SPIE Aerosense, Orlando, Florida,
April, 1999.
Flow Measurements in an
Atmospherically Forced Shallow Water Column During the Passage of a Cold Front
Using A Small AUV, P.E.
An, M. Dhanak, N. Shay, J.Van Leer, 13th Symposium on Boundary
Layers and Turbulence, January, 1999.
Regional Oceanography Using
a Small AUV, P.E. An, M.
Dhanak, UUV Showcase 98, Southampton Oceanography Center, pp.119-129,
September, 1998.
A Co-operative Data
Management Scheme for AUV Applications,
P.E. An, G. Bayard, K. Ganesan, S.M. Smith, Oceans 98, Vol.3, pp.1733-1738,
Nice, France, September, 1998.
Modeling and Simulation for
the FAU AUVS: Ocean Explorer, P.E. An, L. Lin, D. Marco, K. Ganesan,
S. Smith, T. Healey, Oceans 98, Vol.3, pp.1728-1732, Nice, France, September,
1998.
On Line Compensation of
Heading Sensor Bias for Low Cost AUVs,
P.E. An, T. Healey, AUV 98 Navigation Workshop, pp.35-42, Draper Lab,
Massachusetts, August, 1998.
Development of Hydrographic
Survey Capabilities on the Ocean Explorer AUV, S. Smith, J. Park, J. Rivero, T. Pantalakis, E. Henderson,
E. An, Oceanology International Conference, Vol.2, pp.109-118, Brighton, UK,
March, 1998.
Sub-mesoscale Coastal Ocean
Dynamics Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and HF Radar, S.M. Smith, P.E. An, J. Park, L.K.
Shay, H. Peters, J. Van Leer, 2nd conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic
Prediction and Processes (by American Meterological Society), pp.143-150,
Phoenix, Arizona, January, 1998.
Asynchronous Data Fusion
for AUV Navigation Via Heuristic Fuzzy Filtering Techniques, Oceans 97 Conference, Vol.1,
pp.397-402, Nova Scotia, Canada, October, 1997.
Six DOF Nonlinear AUV
Simulation Toolbox, X.
Chen, D. Marco, S. Smith, P.E. An, K. Ganesan, T. Healey, Oceans 97, Vol.2,
pp.1070-1074, Conference, Nova Scotia, Canada, October, 1997.
New Experimental Results on
Shallow-Water Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Motion in Controlled Environments, P.E. An, S.M Smith, S.E. Dunn, X. Chen,
L. Mu, the 7th International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering
Conference, Vol.2, pp.69-75, Honolulu, Hawaii, May, 1997.
The Development of
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Based Survey and Sampling Capabilities for
Coastal Exploration,
S.M. Smith, E. An, D. Kronen, K. Ganesan, J. Park, S.E. Dunn, pp. 30-35, Oceans
96, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, September, 1996.
New Experimental Results on
GPS/INS Integration using Ocean Voyager II AUV, P.E. An, A.J. Healey, S.M. Smith, S.E.
Dunn, IEEE AUV 96, pp.249-255, Monterey, CA, June, 1996.
Ocean Flow Measurement
Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,
K. Holappa, M. Dhanak, S.M. Smith, P.E. An, IEEE AUV 96, pp.424-429, Monterey,
CA, June, 1996.
A Quantitative Measure of
Sea-State Effect on Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Motion in Shallow Water, P.E. An, G. Leavitt, S.M. Smith, S.E.
Dunn, Oceanology International 96, pp.211-233, Brighton, UK, March, 1996.
Data Collection with
Multiple AUVs for Coastal Oceanography,
S.M. Smith, S.E. Dunn, P.E. An, Oceanology International 96, pp.263-279,
Brighton, U.K, March, 1996.
Strategies for Simultaneous
Multiple AUV Operation and Control,
S.M. Smith, K. Ganesan, S.E. Dunn, P.E. An, IARP 96, France, April, 1996.
Regularization-Based
Mixture-of-Experts, P.E.
An, World Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, Vol. I, pp.449-453, D.C,
July, 1995.
Vehicle Detection and
Recognition in Greyscale Imagery,
N.D. Matthews, P.E. An, C.J. Harris, 2nd Int. IFAC Workshop on Intelligent
Autonomous Vehicles, pp.1-6, Helsinki, Finland, 1995.
On the Condition of
Adaptive Neurofuzzy Models,
4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems and 2nd Int. Fuzzy Engineering Symp.,
pp.663-670, Yokohama, Japan, 1995.
On Real Time Vehicle
Guidance and Driver Modelling Within Prometheus, P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J.
Harris, 7th Symposium on
Transportation Systems: Theory and Application of Advanced Technology,
Tianjing, China, August, 1994.
A Reinforcement Learning
Approach to On-line Optimal Control,
P.E. An, S. Aslam-Mir, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence, pp.2465-2471, Orlando, Florida, July, 1994.
Active Neuro-Control of
Large Flexible Aerospace Structures,
S. Aslam-Mir, D. McLean, P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, SPIE International
Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, Orlando,
Florida, April, 1994.
High Order Instantaneous
Learning Algorithms for On-line Training, Proc. of the IMACS Int. Symp. on Signal Processing,
Robotics and Neural Networks, Lille, France, pp.525-529, April, 1994.
Aspects of Instantaneous
On-Line Learning Rules,
P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, IEE International Conference on Control,
Coventry, Vol. I, pp.646-651, April, 1994.
Theoretical Aspects of the
CMAC and its Application to High Dimensional Aerospace Modelling Problems, P.E. An, S. Aslam-Mir, M. Brown, C.J.
Harris, D. McLean, IEE International Conference on Control, Coventry, Vol. II,
pp. 1466-1471, April, 1994.
A Unified Framework of
Associative Memory Neural Networks for Adaptive Dynamic Modelling, Control and
Estimation, C.J. Harris,
P.E. An, M. Brown, World Med' 93, Colloque Robotique et maintenance
industrielle complexe, pp.48-76, October, 1993.
Comparative Aspects of
Associative Memory Networks for Modelling, P.E. An, M. Brown, C.J. Harris, A.J. Lawrence, C.G. Moore,
Proc. of the 2nd European Control Conference, Groningen, Netherlands, Vol.2,
pp.454-459, July, 1993.
Action Planning for the
collision Avoidance System Using Neural Networks, M. Arain, R. Tribe, P.E. An, C. J.
Harris, Proc. of the Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, pp.119-124,
July, 1993.
How Biased is Your
Multi-Layered Perceptron?,
M. Brown, P.E. An, C.J. Harris, H. Wang, 1st World Congress in Neural Networks
Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp.507-511, July, 1993.
Aspects of Neural Networks
in Intelligent Collision Avoidance Systems for Prometheus, P. E. An, C. J. Harris, R. Tribe, N.
Clarke, Joint Framework for Information Technology, University of Keele, UK,
pp.129-135, March, 1993.
Multi-Dimensional Locally
Generalizing Neural Networks for Real Time Control, P.E. An, C.J. Harris, IFAC for
Artificial Intelligence and Real Time Control, Groningen, Netherlands,
pp.741-750, 1992.
Design Improvements in
Associative Memories for Cerebellar Model Articulation Controllers (CMAC), P.E. An, W.T. Miller, P.C. Parks, Proc.
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Helsinki, North
Holland, Vol.2, pp.1207-1210, 1991.
A Comparison of CMAC
Architectures for Neural Network Based Control, L.G. Kraft, P.E. An, D. Campagna, G.
Norris, 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu, Hawaii,
December 1990.
The Design of CMAC Neural
Networks for Control,
W.T. Miller, P.E. An, M.J. Carter, F.H. Glanz, 6th Yale Workshop on Adaptive
and Learning System, Yale University, August, 1990.
Slow Learning in CMAC
Networks and Implications for Fault Tolerance, M.J. Carter, W.T. Miller, P.E. An, A. Nucci, F. Rudolph,
24th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, March 1990.
A Comparison of CMAC
controller Weight Update Laws,
L.G. Kraft, P.E. An, D. Campagna, 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
pp.1746-1747, Tampa, Florida, December 1989.
5.
Professional Service
5.1
National/International
Service
Memberships
in Professional Associations
Space
Automation and Robotics Technical Committee (SARTC), 1995-1997.
American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1995-1997.
Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Society (IEEE).
International
Neural Network Society (INNS).
Invited Talks
Overview
of FAU AUV Program,
American Society of Naval Engineers Day, Crystal City, Virginia, April 29-30,
2002 (invited by Captain John Preisel).
Shallow
Water Coastal Oceanography Using AUVs,
Department
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Robotics Research Centre, Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore, March 21-22, 2001.
Summary
of GOATS 2000 Experiment, Saclante
Center, LaSpezia, Italy, January 10-11, 2001.
UUVS
Conference 2000, Southampton,
U.K., September 27-28 2000.
FAU
AUV Technology,
University of Hong Kong, December 14, 1999.
Neuro-Fuzzy
Modeling and Control at Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics at
Warsaw University of Technology,
Warsaw, Poland, December 3-10, 1996.
Organization of Workshops
U.S. – Korea Research
Cooperation on the Development of a Deep Sea nmanned Underwater Vehicle, April 22-23, 2002, Taejong, Korea
(organizers: Norm Caplan, Dick Blidberg, Edgar An)
1st
AUV Technology workshop in the
Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, Jan 13-15,
1997.
1st workshop on Nonlinear Learning and Control at Southampton University, UK.,
June, 1994.
National
Science Foundation funded Neural Networks
for Control Systems Workshop in Portsmouth (assisted), New Hampshire, 1988.
Experimental Trials
SACLANTE
sea acceptance test, La Spezia & Elba, Italy, February – March, 2002
GOATS
2000 using OEX C, Elba, Italy, October, 2000.
FBEH
2000 using Morpheus, Ft. Lauderdale & Panama City, FL, June, August, 2000.
4D
Current Experiment in July of 1999 using FAU OEX with U. Miami OSCR,
Cyclesonde.
NICOP
experiment in December of 1997 using Southampton Oceanography Center's Autosub and
FAU Ocean Explorer AUVs.
Self-motion
experiments in a controlled environment using the MASK wave facilities located
at Carderock Division Naval Surface Research and Development Center, April,
1996.
Reviews
NSF
and DOE proposals.
IEEE
Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
Automatica, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of
Neural Systems, International Journal of Control, IEEE Transactions on Oceanic
Engineering.
UUST
conference papers for UUST 97, New Hampshire, Interational Offshore and Polar
Engineering conference, 1998.