S. Commuri

Associate Professor School of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Oklahoma Room 432, Devon Energy Hall 110 W. Boyd Street, Norman OK 73019 Ph. (405) 325-4302; fax: (405) 325-7066; Email: scommuri@ou.edu

A. Professional Preparation

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, May 1996. University of Texas, Arlington, Texas. Dissertation: A Framework for Intelligent Control of Nonlinear Systems. Advisor: Prof. Frank L. Lewis
Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering, May 1989. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Thesis: Collision-Free Path Planning for Robot Manipulators.
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, August 1985. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

B. Appointments

Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1/14/2002 – present (tenured 2008).
Staff Engineer, Motorola, Champaign, Illinois, 5/15/2000-11/28/2001.
Senior. Systems Engineer, Vermeer Manufacturing Co., Pella, Iowa, 9/1/1999-5/15/2000.
Engineering Manager, CGN & Associates, Peoria, Illinois, 2/1/1996-8/31/1999.
Research Associate, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, University of Texas, Arlington, 9/1/1991 – 2/1/1996.

Research Associate, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1/14/1991
– 8/31/1999.

Research Engineer, School of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 3/1/1989 – 12/31/1990.
Research Associate, School of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 7/1/1987 – 2/28/1989.
Customer Engineer, Modi Xerox Ltd., India, 8/15/1985 – 7/31/1986.

C. Awards and Recognition

Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Netherlands (since 2006).
Invited Sessions Chair, 2011 IEEE Multi Systems Conference to be held in Denver, CO, September 28-30, 2011.
S. Commuri and R. Fierro (Eds.), "Special Issue on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles," Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, vol. 56, no. 1-2, September 2009.
Recipient of the Best Paper Award in Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control at the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics, ICINCO 2010, Funchal, Portugal, June 2010.

My graduate student Anh Mai received the "Best Doctoral Research Proposal Award" at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control, held in Chicago,
Illinois, during April 11-13, 2010 for his research titled “ Intelligent Control of a Human Ankle Prosthesis.”

Technical Advisor – WorkSmart Inc., The student project team won the First place in the Donald
W. Reynolds Oklahoma Governor's Cup Business Plan Competition.

Industry Advisor - Society of Women Engineers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The team bagged the First place in the National SWE Conference in Denver in 2001.
Recipient of Controls Award from Caterpillar, Inc for the modeling and control of D11R Tractor (1996).
Recipient of Sigma Xi Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation award at University of Texas at Arlington for 1995-1996.
Designated “University Scholars Fellow” at the University of Texas at Arlington, 1993.
Recipient of the National Science Foundation Grant Research Assistantship from the University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Electrical Engineering for the years 1991-1995.
Recipient of Rudolf Hermann Graduate Fellowship for academic excellence at the University of Texas at Arlington for the academic year 1993-94.
Recipient of UTA Alumni Fellowship for academic excellence for the academic years 1991-92 and 1992-93.
Several articles on my research in Asphalt Compaction in magazines and trade publications: ¾ Compass Briefs by Pamela Grady in OKC BIZ, March 23, 2009. ¾ Bringing Innovations to Market by Julie Zirlin in Public Roads, US Department of

Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, vol. 72, #4, January-February 2009.

¾ Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer in Technology Partnerships Program, Focus Magazine, FHWA-HRT-08-010, January/February 2008.

¾ 'Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer' in Highways for LIFE Program Overview PCPS Showcase Accelerating innovation for the American driving experience, Mt Arlington, NJ October 14, 2008.

¾ IACA, Asphalt Contractor Technology Partnerships, July 8, 2008. http://www.forconstructionpros.com/online/Asphalt-News/Asphalt-Contractor-TechnologyPartnerships/41FCP10363

¾ IACA in ISSA Report, January 2008. http://www.slurry.org/Newsletters/ISSAReport2007No4.pdf Also in 'ACEC: Industry News', March 2008. www.acec.org/publications/newsbriefs2008/in-032708.cfm.

¾ "University of Oklahoma project aims to help roads last longer," in The Oklahoma City Journal Record, November 18, 2008.

D. Courses Taught

ECE 2713 Digital Signals and Filtering (Spring 2002, Spring 2003).
ECE 4413 Control Systems Engineering (Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2009, Fall 2010) (also colisted as AME 4383 in Fall 2002 and Fall 2003).
ECE 5043 Fuzzy Logic (Fall 2003).
ECE 5413 Control Theory (Spring 2004, Spring 2005).
AME 2623 Circuits and Sensors (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, and Spring 2007).
ECE 4973/5973 Robotics (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008).
ECE 3793 Signals and Systems (Spring 2009, Spring 2010).

E. Students Supervised

Doctoral:

Harold Castano (December 2012)
Ahmeed ElMehdawi (Decembeer 2012)
Dharamveer Singh (Jointly with Prof. Musharraf Zaman) (2010).
Anh The Mai (February 2011). Dissertation: Intelligent control of a prosthetic ankle joint.
Fares Beainy (January 2011). Dissertation: Rapid prototyping for real-time embedded control applications.
Phuong Pham (December 2010). Dissertation: Learning in wireless sensor networks.
Mohamed Watfa, Ph.D (2006). Associate Professor, University of Wollongong in Dubai. Thesis: Coverage issues in wireless sensor networks.

Masters:

Asif Imran (September 2011) Thesis: Modeling and control of the compaction process.
Harish Reddy Gadigota (December 2010) Thesis: Development of a prosthetic activity monitor.
Sreekant Reddy Mallireddy (August 2010) Thesis: Reconfigurable sensor node for imaging applications in wireless sensor networks.
Tandy Jones (August 2009). Systems Engineer, Federal Aviation Administration, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thesis: Development of a testbed for a reconfigurable manufacturing system.
Gregario Balandran (April 2009). Automation Engineer, Spirit Airlines, Wichita, Kansas. Thesis: Intelligent manufacturing approach to flexible problem solving.
Madhu Pankaj (April 2009). Hardware Engineer, Caterpillar, Peoria, Illinois. Thesis: Hardware accelerated implementation of a baseline grayscale JPEG encoder for a WSN using Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA.
Lee A. Sliger (2006). Systems Engineer, Raytheon, Tucson, Arizona. Thesis: Application of dynamic partial reconfiguration for fault-correction in embedded systems.
Viswanath Tadigotla (2006). Research Engineer, Xilinx Inc.Longmont, Colorado. Thesis: Design and implementation of reconfigurable mobile sensor node.
Johann G. Nino (2005). Software Engineer, PCI Systems, Norman, OK. Thesis: Design and Development of a Real Time Neural Network-Based Compaction Analyzer.
Deepa Yerrabommanahalli (2005). Software Engineer, PCI Systems, Norman, OK.
Deji Fajebe (2005). Doctoral Candidate, University of Waterloo, Canada. Thesis: A software methodology for embedded intelligent systems.
Ramanathan Muthuraman (2004). Senior Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard, San Jose, California. Thesis: An architecture for the implementation of intelligent unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

F. Funding

Co-PI, OTC (OK-OSU), "Enhancing Laboratory facilities in Asphalt Research and Education: Sharing to Gain," $333,288 ($116,651), 6/2010 - 5/2011.
PI, OTC (OK-OSU), "Continuous Real-Time Measurement of Quality During the Compaction of Subgrade Soils," $197,938 ($118,763), 6/2010 - 5/2012.
PI, Volvo Construction Ltd., “Continuous real-time measurement of pavement quality during construction,” $119,937 ($59,969), 1/2010 – 12/2010.
PI, Volvo Construction Ltd., “Refinement and Development of IACA,” $41,911 ($20,956), 7/2007 – 10/2008.
Co-PI, OK-EDGE, “Shape Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing,” $3,000,000 ($90,000), with Shivakumar Raman and others, 1/2009 - 12/2010.
PI, Volvo Construction Ltd., “Continuous real-time measurement of pavement quality during construction,” $140,393 ($94,064), 10/2008 – 9/2009.
PI, OTC (OK-OSU), “Continuous real-time measurement of pavement quality during construction,” $99,893 ($66,928), 10/2008 – 9/2009.
PI, Highways for Life (Hfl) program, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer” 10/1/2007 – 9/30/2009, ($200,000)
PI, Volvo Construction Ltd., “Refinement and Development of IACA,” $310,211 ($155,106), 7/2007 – 10/2008.
PI, Cross disciplinary research grant, College of Engineering, OU, $10,000, 5/2008 – 4/2009.
Co-PI, OK-TRAN, “Inter-modal Containerized Freight Security,” $5,098,478 (152,954.30), with Sridhar Radhakrishnan and others, 5/2007 - 12/2008.
PI, GbG Energy Systems Inc., “Evaluation of Energy Optimizing Induction Motor Controls,” $12,235, 12/2006 – 03/2007.
Co-PI, Rockwell Collins Inc., “Hybrid Robust Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” $125,000 ($37,500), with Yunjun Xu, 1/2007 – 9/2007.
Co-PI, OK-TRAN, “Inter-modal Containerized Freight Security,” $2,083,151 ($62,495), with Sridhar Radhakrishnan and others, 7/2006 - 5/2007.
Co-PI, OK-TRAN, “Inter-modal Containerized Freight Security,” $1,463,673 ($43,619), with Sridhar Radhakrishnan and others, 3/2006 - 11/2007.
PI, ODOT, “Development of Field Calibration and Test Procedure for TransTech Systems’ PQI 301 Non-Nuclear Density Gauge,” $19,621 ($9,810.50), with Musharraf Zaman, 7/2006 – 10/2006.
Co-PI, DEPSCoR (ARO), “Adaption and Learning at All Levels in Intelligent Robot Teams for Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Battlefield Assessment,” $811,508 ($270,502.67), Co-PI with Dean Hougen, 7/2003-6/2006.
PI, ODOT, “A Field Testing Facility for Development of Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” $15,000 ($7,500), with Musharraf Zaman, 9/2004-9/2004.
PI, OU-VPR, “A Field Testing Facility for Development of Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” $5,000 ($2,500), with Musharraf Zaman, 11/2004-10/2005.
PI, OK-CAST, “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” $296,341 ($148,170.50), with Musharraf Zaman, 9/2003-11/2006.
PI, Broce Construction, “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” $297,838 ($148,919), with Musharraf Zaman, 9/2003-11/2006.
PI, CASI, DOD-AF, “Non-Contact 3-D Digitization Scanning Technology,” $46,118, 6/2002 –

7/2002. Total Research Funding: $17,682,633; Individual Research Expenditure: $1,712,263.

Other Funding: Nokia, Flexible Manufacturing Cells, Equipment valued at $750,000, 3/2002. Xilinx University Program, VIRTEX IIP hardware and Development System, $31,250, 6/2003. OU ECE Director’s discretionary fund, Rapid Prototyping Toolbox – xPC Target, $5000, 3/2003. National Instruments, Compact RIO Reconfigurable Platforms and Development Tools, $8000, 9/2005.

G. Publications

G.1 In Preparation

D.Singh, S. Commuri, and M. Zaman, "A predictive model for estimating the dynamic modulus of Hot Mix Asphalt mixes used in Oklahoma," Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, September 2010.
F. Beainy and S. Commuri, “Development of an autonomous ATV for real-life surveillance operations," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, September 2010.
G. Balandran, T. Jones, and S. Commuri, “Rapid prototyping and testing of an intelligent ankle prosthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, October 2010.

G.2 Refereed Journal Papers (2002-2010)

F. Beainy and S. Commuri, “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and operational specifications,” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, September 2010 (under review).
A. T. Mai and S. Commuri, “Gait classification and gait phase detection for a below-knee amputee using interfacial contact forces,” IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, August 2010 (under review).
D. Singh, S. Commuri, and M. Zaman, “A procedure to estimate the stiffness of an asphalt pavement during its construction,” Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, submitted August 2010 (under review).
F. Beainy, S. Commuri, and M. Zaman, “Achievable quality during the construction of hot mix asphalt pavements,” Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, submitted July 2010 (under review).
D. Singh, M. Zaman, and S. Commuri, “Evaluation of predictive models for estimating dynamic modulus of HMA mixes used in Oklahoma,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, January 2011 (accepted for publication).
S. Mallireddy and S. Commuri, “Run Time Compression of Image Data in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communication, submitted April 2010 (under review).
F. Beainy, S. Commuri, and M. Zaman, “Quality assurance / Quality control during the construction of hot mix asphalt pavements,” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, submitted March 2010 (under review).
P. Pham and S. Commuri, “Distributed Kalman Filter-based target tracking in wireless sensor networks,” Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, August 2010 (accepted for publication).
D. Singh, A.T. Mai, F. Beainy, S. Commuri, and M. Zaman, “In situ measurement of the stiffness during the construction of a HMA pavement,” submitted to the Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, January 2010 (accepted for publication).
S. Commuri, A.T. Mai, and M. Zaman, “Neural Network-based Intelligent Compaction Analyzer for Estimating Compaction Quality of Hot Asphalt Mixes,” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2010 (in press).
S. Commuri, J. Day, D.P. Dionne, W.J.J. Ertl, “Assessment of pressures within the prosthetic socket of a person with osteomyoplastic amputation during varied walking tasks," International Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, vol. 22, issue 2, pages 127-137, April 2010.
N.M. Wasiuddin, M. Zaman, and S. Commuri, “Calibration of non-nuclear PQI gauges and field comparison of PQI and nuclear gauge densities,” International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, vol. 2, no. 5, pages 181-187, September 2009.
S. Commuri, A.T., Mai, and M. Zaman, “Calibration Procedures for the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol. 37, no. 5, pages 454-462, September 2009.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Energy Efficient Approaches to the Border Coverage Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), vol. 11, No.1, pages 57-71, February 2009.
S. Commuri and M. Zaman, “Neural Network Based Compaction Analyzer for Density Measurement during the Construction of an Asphalt Pavement,” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 9:3, pages 177-188, June 2008.
S. Commuri, V. Tadigotla, and M. Atiquzzaman, “Reconfigurable Hardware based Dynamic Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” eds. A. Durresi, and L. Barolli, Special Issue on Heterogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 4, issue 2 , pages 194 – 212, April 2008.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “An Energy Efficient and Self-Healing 3-Dimensional Sensor Cover”, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 33-47, 2008.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Boundary Coverage and Coverage Boundary Problems in WSNs”, International Journal on Sensor Networks, Special issue on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects in Sensor Networks. (Guest Editors: Dr. Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University and Dr. Yingshu Li, Georgia State University), vol. 2, nos. 3/4, pp. 275-285, 2007.
S. Commuri, V. Tadigotla, and L. Sliger, “Dynamic Reconfiguration of Intelligent Robot Teams,” International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 111-134, June 2007. (Also in Springer Open Choice, International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, March 2007, Article DOI: 10.1007/s10846-007-9131-3).
V. Tadigotla and S. Commuri, “Design and Implementation of Reconfigurable Mobile Sensor Systems,” WSEAS Transactions on Systems, issue 2, vol. 6, pp. 400 – 408, February 2007.
V.Tadigotla and S. Commuri, “Efficient Implementation of Imaging filters using Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs”, WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, issue 11, vol. 2, pp. 14481456, November 2006.
S. Commuri and M. Watfa, “Coverage strategies in 3D wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 333-353, October-December 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “An Energy Efficient Approach to Dynamic Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Journal of Networks, vol. 1, issue 4, pp. 10 – 20; August 2006.
S. Commuri and R. Fierro, "Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles," Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, vol. 56, no. 1-2, September 2009.

G.3 Other Publications

S. Jagannathan, S. Commuri, and FL Lewis, "CMAC Control of a Feedback Linearizable Nonlinear Systems ", Automatica, vol.34, no.5, pp. 547-557, May 1998
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "A New Methodology for the Design of Adaptive Controllers using "State-Strict Passivity": Application to Neural Network Controllers, in Special Issue: New Directions in Control and Automation II, Kybernetica, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-16, 1997.
S. Commuri, S. Jagannathan, and F.L. Lewis, "CMAC Neural Network Control of Robot Manipulators," Journal of Robotic Systems, 14(6), 465-482, 1997.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "CMAC Neural Networks for Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Structure, Stability, and Passivity", Automatica, March 1996.
S. Commuri and A. Ghosh, "Optimum Path Planning for Robot Manipulators Amid Static and Dynamic Obstacles", IEEE Trans. Sys. Man. Cyber., pp. 576 - 584, vol. 23, no. 2, March 1993.

G.4 Book Chapters

S. Commuri, J. Albus, and A. Barberra, “Intelligent Systems,” in Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing Control, Decision Making and Applications, ed. S.S. Ge and F.L. Lewis, Marcel Dekker, pp.660–700, 2006.

R. Fierro, J. Clark, D. Hougen, and S. Commuri, "A multi-robot testbed for biologically-inspired cooperative control," in Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III,
L. E. Parker, F. E. Schneider, and A. C. Schultz (eds.), Springer, pp. 171-182, 2005.

F.L. Lewis, S. Commuri, and K.Liu, "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Systems for Robot Control," in Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Applications, ed. F. Wang, Intelligent Control and Automation Series, World Scientific Publishing, 1997.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "CMAC Neural Networks for Control Applications," Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ed. John G. Webster, John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

G.5 Patents

S. Commuri and M. Zaman, "A method to determine the effective modulus of an asphalt pavement during its construction," Invention Disclosure, Office of Technology Development, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, August 2010.
S. Commuri and M. Zaman, “Method and apparatus for predicting the density of asphalt,” USPTO, 7,669,458, March 02, 2010.
S. Commuri, “Calibration procedures for the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” USPTO, Patent Application #20100172696, August 26, 2009.

G.6 Refereed Conference Papers

D. Singh, M. Zaman, and S. Commuri, “Comparison of hierarchical levels of the MEPDG for predicting the dynamic modulus of a HMA mix” 13th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Melbourne, Australia, May 9-13, 2011.
F. Beainy and S. Commuri, “Asphalt Compaction Quality Control Using Artificial Neural Network,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 15-17 December 2010 (to appear).
P. Pham and S. Commuri, “Distributed Kalman filter-based target tracking in wireless sensor networks,” in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics, ICINCO 2010, Funchal, Portugal, June 2010. (Recipient of the Best Paper Award in Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control).
D. Singh, M. Zaman, and S. Commuri, “Effect of Long Term Oven Aging (LTOA) on Dynamic Modulus of Hot Mix Asphalt” GeoFrontiers, Dallas, TX, August 2010.
S. Mallireddy and S. Commuri, “Run Time Compression of Image Data in Wireless Sensor Networks” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Chicago, pp. 512 - 517, April 2010.
S. Commuri, A.T. Mai, and M. Zaman, “Calibration Procedures for the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” 3rd International Conference on Asphalt Materials, Shandong, China, August 2009.
S. Commuri and A.T. Mai, “Field Validation of the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 651-656, Jun 24 - 26, 2009.
S. Commuri, F. Beainy, and A.T. Mai, “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operational Requirements and Fault-Tolerant Robust Control in Level Flight,” 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 700-705, Jun 24 - 26, 2009.
S. Commuri and F. Beainy, “Development of an Autonomous ATV for Real-Life Surveillance Operations,” 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 904-909, Jun 24 - 26, 2009.
S. Commuri, A.T. Mai, and M. Zaman, Neural Network-based Intelligent Compaction Analyzer for Estimating Compaction Quality of Hot Asphalt Mixes, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control Seoul, Korea, pp. 2224-2229, July 6-11, 2008.
S. Commuri and V. Tadigotla, “Dynamic Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” 2007 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Suntec City, Singapore, MoA06.1, pp 1-6, October 2007.
V. Tadigotla and S. Commuri, “Efficient Controller Implementations for Robot Control,” 5th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal Processing (CSECS '06), ISBN # 960-8457-55-6, pp. 48-53, November 2006.
V. Tadigotla and S. Commuri, “Dynamic Image Filter Selection using Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs for Imaging Operations,” 5th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control & Signal Processing (CSECS '06), ISBN # 960-8457-55-6, pp. 60-65, November 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Energy-Efficient Approaches to Coverage Holes Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Munich, Germany, pp. 131-136, October 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Optimal Sensor Placement for Border Perambulation,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Munich, Germany, pp. 137-142, October 2006.
S. Commuri, V. Tadigotla, and L. Sliger, “FPGA-Based design of Intelligent Robot Teams,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Munich, Germany, pp. 1220-1225, October 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Power Conservation Approaches to the Border Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks,” ICWN'06, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, pp. 143-150 June 26-29, 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “A Reduced Cover Approach to Energy Efficient Tracking using Wireless Sensor Networks,” ICWN'06, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, pp. 128-135, June 26-29, 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “The 3-Dimensional Wireless Sensor Network Coverage Problem”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control, Florida, pp. 856-861, April 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Sensor Selection for Border Covering 3D Spherical Region”, Proceedings of the 9^thCommunications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'06), Alabama, pp. 413-419, April 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Sensor Border Patrol for Target Detection”, Proceedings of the 9^thCommunications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'06), Alabama, pp. 420-425, April 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “An Energy Efficient 3-Dimensional Sensor Cover”, Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC06), Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 892 - 896, January 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Optimal 3-Dimensional Sensor Deployment Strategy”, Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC06), Las Vegas, NV, USA, IEEE Catlog # 06EX1273C, January 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “Optimality Measures for Coverage in 3D Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Phuket, Thailand, IEEE Catlog # 06EX1173C, January 2006.
M. Watfa and S. Commuri, “A Coverage Algorithm in 3D Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Phuket, Thailand, IEEE Catlog # 06EX1173C, January 2006.
S. Commuri, “A Framework for Implementing Intelligence in Embedded Controls,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Control Applications, Ecuador, IEEE Catlog # 05EX1175C, December 2005.
Yushan Li, Sesh Commuri, John Cheung, and Pramod Verma, “A Robust Controller for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems and Its Application to a Motor Driven System,” American Control Conference, pp. 1307-1312, Portland, 2005.
R. Muthuraman, A. Fajebe, and S. Commuri, “Intelligence in Embedded Controls – A Case Study,” Proceedings of the IEEE Region 5 Technical Conference: Annual Technical and Leadership Workshop, pp. 125-130, April 2004.
Sesh Commuri, Rafael Fierro, Dean Hougen, and R. Muthuraman, “System Intelligence Requires Distributed Learning,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 67-72, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004 (submitted November 2003, revised April 2004).

Sesh Commuri, Yushan Li, Dean Hougen, and Rafael Fierro, “Designing for System Intelligence
– A Case Study,” Proceedings of the 5^th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004 (submitted December 2003, revised March 2004).

Sesh Commuri, Yushan Li, Dean Hougen, and Rafael Fierro, “Evaluating Intelligence in Unmanned Ground Vehicle Teams,” Proceedings of PerMIS '04, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithesburg, Maryland, August 2004.
R. Fierro, J. Clark, J. Sanchez, K. Walling, M. Leuschen, S. Commuri, and D. Hougen, “A Low Cost Modular Multi-Vehicle Testbed for Cooperative Control,” 2nd Annual Swarming: Network Enabled C4ISR Conference, Washington DC, June 2004.
S. Commuri, S. Jagannathan and F. L. Lewis, "Control of Robot Manipulators Using CMAC Neural Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems, Paphos, Cyprus, paper TP4-3, July 1997.
S. Commuri and S. Jagannathan, "Modular Controls Design for Robot Manipulators Using CMAC Neural Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1725 - 1730, April 1997.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Design and Stability Analysis of Adaptive-Fuzzy Controllers for a Class of Nonlinear Systems," IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, 1996.
S. Jagannathan, S. Commuri and F. L. Lewis, "Feedback Linearization using CMAC neural networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.3304-3309, 1996.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Design of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Adaptive-Fuzzy Controllers with Guaranteed Performance," Proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, pp.753-758, 1996.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Adaptive-Fuzzy Logic Control of Robot Manipulators," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2604-2609, 1996.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "A Framework for the Discrete Time Design of Intelligent Controllers Using 'State-Strict Passivity'," Proceedings ISAI/IFIS, pp. 386-393, Cancun, Mexico, 1996.
S. Jagannathan, S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Feedback Linearization of Nonlinear Systems using Fuzzy Logic Systems," Proceedings ISAI/IFIS, Cancun, Mexico, 1996.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "CMAC Neural Networks for Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Structure, Stability, and Passivity", Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Symp. on Intelligent Control, pp. 123-129, 1995.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Discrete-time CMAC Neural Networks for Control Applications", 34th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, pp. 2420-2426, 1995.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "A New Methodology for the Design of Adaptive Controllers using 'State-Strict Passivity' ", Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, vol. 1, pp. 266-271, 1995.
S. Commuri, F.L. Lewis, and Kai Liu, "Approximation-based Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Control," in Invited Session on Approximation-Based Control, Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, pp. 119-124, 1995.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Stabilization of a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Ill-Defined Relative Degree", Proceddings of the of the American Control Conference, pp. 2712-2716, June 1995.
S. Commuri, F.L. Lewis, S.Q. Zhu, and K. Liu, "CMAC Neural Networks for Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computing, pp. 119-124, May 1995.
S.Q. Zhu, S. Commuri, and F.L. Lewis, "A Singular Perturbation Approach to Stabilization of the Internal Dynamics of Multilink Flexible Robots", Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1386-1390, June 1994.
S. Commuri and F.L. Lewis, "Robust Practical Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Ill-Defined Relative Degree", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, pp. 299-306, June 1994.

C.Seshadri and A.Ghosh, "Optimum Path Planning for Two Robots - A Variational Approach", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics, Bangalore, India, editors:
M. Vidyasagar and Mohan Trivedi, January 2-5, 1991.

A.Ghosh and C.Seshadri, "Collision-free Optimum Paths for Manipulators using Geometric Collision Avoidance Strategy", SME Fourth World Conference on Robotics Research, pp. 6.23 - 6.32, Pittsburgh 1991.
A. Ghosh, C.Seshadri and A.M.Patrikar, "Time Optimal Path Planning for Robot Manipulators", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, 1990.
C.Seshadri and A.Ghosh, "Minimum-time Trajectory Planning for Two Robots", in Proceedings of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference, California, pp. 676 – 681, 1990.

G.7 Presentations

S. Commuri, J. Day, C. Dionne, and W.J.J. Ertl, “Assessment of pressures within the prosthetic socket of a person with osteomyoplastic amputation during varied walking tasks,” Boston National APTA Conference, June 2010.
S. Commuri, Advances in Intelligent Prosthetics, presented at the Ertl Symposium, OU-HSC, University of Oklahoma, April 2010.
S. Commuri, A.T. Mai, M. Zaman, “Calibration Procedures for the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” 3rd International Conference on Asphalt Materials, Shandong, China, August 2009.
S. Commuri, M. Zaman, 'Advances in Intelligent Compaction - An Overview of Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer' at FHWA, Virginia Transportation Research Center, McLean, VA, January 06, 2009.
S. Commuri, M. Zaman, Highways for LIFE Technology Transfer Program - Field Validation of Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer, presented at the TRB 88th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., January 11-15, 2009.
S. Commuri, M. Zaman, 'Performance Validation of the Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer' at the Workshop on Intelligent Construction for Earthworks, EERC, Iowa Department of Transportation, Des Moines, IA, April 14-16, 2009.
S. Commuri, “A new approach for asphalt IC,” Second Annual Workshop on Intelligent Construction for Earthworks, Iowa Department of Transportation, Des Moines, IA, April 14-16, 2009.
S. Commuri, “New approaches to intelligent compaction,” Highways for LIFE – Technology Partnerships Program, Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, January 2009.
S. Commuri, “Intelligent Compaction Analyzer,” Highways for LIFE – Technology Partnerships Program, Virginia Transportation Research Center, McClean, VA, January 2009.
S. Commuri, M. Zaman, 'Intelligent Compaction of Asphalt Pavements' presented to the Asphalt Quality Improvement Task Force, Oklahoma City, OK, April 07, 2009.
S. Commuri, D. Singh, A. Mai, F. Beainy, M. Zaman 'Intelligent Asphalt Compaction: Quality and Statistical Measures,”,' poster presented at the 2009 ODOT-OTC Transportation Research Day, Oklahoma City, OK, October 7, 2009.
S. Commuri, Residual limb weight bearing during gait of an individual with an osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation, presented at the Ertl Symposium, OU-HSC, University of Oklahoma, April 2009.
S. Commuri, “Field Evaluation of the IACA,” Highways for LIFE – Technology Partnerships Program, Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, January 2008.
S. Commuri, “Field Evaluation of Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer,” Oklahoma Department of Transportation, October 2008.
(Invited) Panelist, Towards Global Execution Effectiveness, MESA Plant2Enterprise Conference, Orlando, September 2005.
S. Commuri, S. Radhakrishnan, Adaptive computing Systems using mobile Ad-Hoc Grid Networks, CBMANET, DARPA Preproposers Conference, Arlington, VA, September 2005.
R. Fierro, D. Hougen, S. Commuri, Adaptation and Learning at All Levels (AL^2) in Intelligent Robot Teams, Workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems, Napa Valley, California, August 3-4, 2005.
MESA 2005 Plant2Enterprise Conference, Orlando, September 2005 (Invited Panelist).
Intelligent Control and Applications using Matlab, del DÍA MATLAB 2005, Universidad el Bosque, Bogotá, Columbia, August 2005.
Intelligent Asphalt Compaction, OTC Workshop, April 2005.
Workshop on Smart Embedded Systems for Control, 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Houston, TX, October 2003.

G.8 Reports

S. Commuri, "Final report for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, June 2010.
S. Commuri, "Detailed work plan for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," report presented to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, March 2009.
S. Commuri, "User Manual: Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, May 2009.
S. Commuri, "Phase I progress report for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, February 2009.
S. Commuri, "Q1-09 Quarterly progress report for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, April 2009.
S. Commuri, "Q2-09 Quarterly progress report for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, July 2009.
S. Commuri, "Q3-09 Quarterly progress report for assistance agreement DTFH61-08-G-0002," submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, Highways for LIFE Technology Partnerships Program, October 2009.
S. Commuri, “Inter-modal containerized freight: Systems engineering for container instrumentation and surveillance,” submitted to the Center for infrastructure protection and hardening through education and research (CIPHER), Oklahoma, October 2008.
S. Commuri, “Energy Optimizing Induction Motor Controls,” GbG Energy Systems, March 2007.
S. Commuri and M. Zaman, “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer – Final Report,” OCAST, February 2007.
S. Commuri and M. Zaman, “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer – Year II Report,” OCAST, July 2005.
S. Commuri and M. Zaman, “Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer – Year I Report,” OCAST, June 2004.
S. Commuri, “Non-Contact 3-D Digitization Technology – Phase I,” Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, July 2002.
S. Commuri, “Controls Design and Evaluation of D11R Autonomous Track-Type Tractor,” Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL, 1998.
S. Commuri, “Testing and Evaluation of Fuel Benches,” Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL, 1997.
S. Commuri, “Automation of Mining Trucks,” Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL, 1996.
J.A. Lowe, S. Commuri, and F.L. Lewis, "WSC-6 Antenna Control : Test Procedures", prepared for Electrospace Systems, Inc., March 1995.
J.A. Lowe, S. Commuri, and F.L. Lewis, "WSC-6 Antenna Control : Phase II Report", prepared for Electrospace Systems, Inc., November 1994.

H. Professional Service

Member IEEE Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (since 2006).

Invited Sessions Chair, 2011 IEEE Multi Systems Conference to be held in Denver, CO, September 28-30, 2011.

Session Co Chair, Fault Tolerant Systems, 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun 24 - 26, 2009. Session Co-Chair, Fault-Tolerant Control, 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun 24 - 26, 2009. Associate Editor, IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Suntec City, Singapore, October 2007. International Program Committee Member, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control, Munich, Germany, October 2006. International Program Committee Member, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking,

Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 2006. Session Chair, Special Session on Subsurface Sensing and Imaging, IEEE ICNSC 2006. Session Chair, Wireless Sensor Networks for Intelligent Systems, ISIC 2006. Session Chair, Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Control, ISIC 2006. Member, Technical Program Committee, WiQoS2005, IEEE WirelessCom 2005 Conference. Chair, Systems and Control session, SAE Earthmoving Conference, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics International Computer Aided Engineering International Journal of Robotics and Intelligent Systems International Journal of Field Robotics Robotica Elsevier Computer Communication Journal Journal of Supercomputing ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Department Service

Member, OU Instructional Development Program, 2002 - 2007 Student Mentor, Adopt-a-faculty Program, 2006-2008 Member, Undergraduate Committee, 2007-2010.

I have mentored several disadvantaged/minority students and recruited a minority student to the graduate program in ECE. I also helped the student to obtain a (nationally competitive) GEM fellowship to pursue higher education.