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JeongHeon Han

Structural Systems and Control Laboratory
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
Phone: (858) 822-2020 
FAX: (858) 822-3107 
E-Mail: jehan@ucsd.edu

Office: EBU I 2113

Curriculum Vitae: PDF file

Advisor | Research Interests | Education | Academic Experience | Publications | Other Interests

Advisor

• Robert E. Skelton

Research Interests

• Development of TenSoft (Dynamic Simulator of Tensegrity Structures)

• Robust and Optimal Control

• Linear Matrix Inequalities

• Robotics

• Statics and dynamics of tensegrity structures

• Economic structure and control system design with finite signal-to-noise ratios

• Convexifying Linear Matrix Inequality Methods

• Matrix rank minimization heuristic with applications

• Sensor and actuator selection
• Systems design

Education

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California USA 

• C.Phil., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2003.
  • Advisor: Robert E. Skelton

Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea

• M.S. , Mechanical Engineering, 1996.

YONSEI University, Seoul, South Korea

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1994.

Awards

• UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering  Dissertation Fellowship, 2004

Academic Experience

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California USA

• Research Assistant/Graduate Student, Structural Systems and Control Lab 1999 - present

  • Includes current Ph.D. research, Ph.D.  coursework and research.

• Teaching Assistant, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Spring 2003
  • Duties at various times have included office hours, weekly sections, grading.  Feedback Linear Control.

Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea

• Research Assistant/Graduate Student, Robotics Lab 1994 - 1998

  • Development of POSTECH Modular Robot Manipulator

  • Adaptive Steering Control of AGV (Automated Guidance Vehicle)

  • Control Input Reconstruction Algorithm using Redundancy for  Redundant Manipulators under Control Input Limitations

  •  Nonlinear Robust and Optimal Control for a Redundant Robot Manipulator

• Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department Spring 1994

  • Duties at various times have included office hours, weekly sections, grading.  Vibration.

Publications

• Equilibrium Conditions for a Class I Tensegrity Structures, Darrell Williamson, Robert E. Skelton, and JeongHeon Han, Revue française de génie civil, July, 2003, pp. 291-310.

• Equilibrium Conditions of a Tensegrity Structures, JeongHeon Han, Darrell Williamson, Robert E. Skelton,  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 40, Nov. 2003, pp. 6347-6367.

• System Modelings and Model Reduction, Robert E. Skelton,  JeongHeon Han, and Mauricio de Oliveira, invited chapter of the Handbook of Smart Systems and Materials, Institute of Physics (IOP), [to appear in 2004].

• An LMI optimization approach to the Design of Structured Linear Controllers using the Convexifying Algorithm, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, to be submitted.

• Simultaneous Plant and Controller Design using Linearization, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, to be submitted.

• A New Synthesis Condition of Dynamic Output Feedback Controller for Linear Discrete-Time Systems, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, to be submitted.

• Optimal Output Feedback Control under Multiplicative and Additive Noises, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, to be submitted.

Conference Papers

• Task Based Design of Modular Robot Manipulator using Efficient Genetic Algorithms, Jeongheon Han, W.K.Chung, Y.Youm, Proc. of the 11th Korea Automatic Control Conference, International Program, pp.243-246, 1996.

• Determination of Optimal manipulator Configuration from Task Specifications, Jeongheon Han, Y.Youm and W.K.Chung, Proc. of Korea Automatic Conference(KACC), Seoul, Oct., pp.932-935, 1995.

• Task Based Design of Modular Robot Manipulator using Efficient Genetic Algorithms, Jeongheon Han, W.K.Chung, Y.Youm and S.H.Kim , IEEE Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation Albuquerque, April, pp 507-512, 1997.

• Equilibrium Conditions of a Class I Tensegrity Structure (AAS 02-177), Robert E. Skelton, Darrell Williamson and JeongHeon Han , pp 927 – 950, Volume 112 Part II, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Spaceflight Mechanics 2002.

• Equilibrium Conditions of a Tensegrity Structures, Darrell Williamson, Robert E. Skelton, and JeongHeon Han, Third World Conference on Structural Control (3WCSC), Como, Italy, April 7-12, 2002.

• An LMI optimization approach for Structured Linear Controllers, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, pp.5143-5148, 2003 IEEE, CDC.

• An LMI optimization approach to the Design of Structured Linear Controllers using a Linearization Algorithm, JeongHeon Han, and Robert E. Skelton, 2003 ASME IMECE.

Other Interests

• Choir Singing
• Tennis
• Golf