Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yogendra P. Kakad Professor Office: Woodward Hall Phone: 704-687-8408 Fax: 704-687-4762 E-mail: kakad@uncc.edu Homepage: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~kakad

• University of Baroda, B.S., 1967, Mechanical Engineering
• University of Florida, M.S., 1970, Mechanical Engineering
• University of Florida, Ph.D., 1975, Mech. Engr. (major) Electrical Engr. (minor)

• August 1976 to present: University of North Carolina at Charlotte Position: Professor.
• Position: Professor. August 1967 to July 1968: Madhvani Group of Industries, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa Position: Engineer

• "Dynamics of Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (SCOLE) Slew Maneuvers", NASA CR-4098, October 1987.
• "Decentralized Slew Maneuver Control and Vibration Suppression of Large Flexible Spacecrafts", Computational Techniques in Identification and Control of Flexible Flight Structures, Op- timization Software, Inc., Publication Division, Los Angeles, CA, 1989, pp. 159-175.
• "Output Feedback Detumbling and Reorientation Maneuvers and Vibration Damping of NASA SCOLE System", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 1992, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 80-91. "Nonlinear Rotational Maneuver and Vibration Damping of NASA SCOLE System", Acta Astronautic Journal, July 1994.
• "Nonlinear Rotational Maneuver and Vibration Damping of NASA SCOLE System", Acta Astronautic Journal, July 1994.
• "Identification of Articulated Multibody Flexible Space Structure", SDVNC, Vol. II, pp. 918-923, December, 1995.

• IEEE (Senior Member)
• ASME
• AIAA (Senior Member)

• Pi Tau Sigma
• Award of NASA-ASEE Summer Research Fellowship, 1982
• Award of NASA-ASEE Summer Research Fellowship, 1983
• Award of Major Summer Research Grant, 1984
• Award of NASA-ASEE Summer Research Fellowship, 1984
• Initiated to Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, as Eminent Engineer, 1985

• NASA Funded Research
  • Dynamics and Control of Flexible Spacecraft During Slewing Maneuvers
  • Dynamics and Control of Flexible Multibody Space Systems.   Research
  • Campus coordinator for N.C. Space Grant Consortium.
  
  
• Other Research Areas
  • Multivariable Control applications to Robotics, Aircrafts and Manufacturing.
  • Rapid-Prototyping of Digital Designs for Controls, Communications and Digital Signal Processing.