Murat Arcak

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• Energy (ENE)

Teaching Schedule (Fall 2009)

• EE 123. Digital Signal Processing, WF 9:30-11:00A, 521 Cory

Biography

Murat Arcak received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1996) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997 and 2000). Prior to joining Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor (2001-06) and an Associate Professor (2006-08) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. His research is in nonlinear systems and control theory with applications to biological networks, power systems, communication networks, and cooperative robotics. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2006, and the SIAG/CST Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2007.

Selected Publications

• J. O'Rourke, M. Arcak, and R. Ramani, "Real-time optimization of net power in a fuel cell system," Journal of Power Sources, vol. 187, pp. 422-430, 2009.
• H. Bai, M. Arcak, and J. Wen, "Rigid body attitude coordination without inertial frame information," Automatica, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 3170-3175, Dec. 2008.
• T. Alpcan, X. Fan, T. Basar, M. Arcak, and J. T. Wen, "Power control for multicell CDMA wireless networks: A team optimization approach," Wireless Networks, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 647-657, Oct. 2008.
• E. Biyik and M. Arcak, "Area aggregation and time-scale modelling for sparse nonlinear networks," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 142-149, Feb. 2008.
• M. Arcak and E. D. Sontag, "A passivity-based stability criterion for a class of biochemical reaction networks," Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-19, Jan. 2008.
• I. A. F. Ihle, M. Arcak, and T. I. Fossen, "Passivity-based designs for synchronized path-following," Automatica, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1508-1518, Sep. 2007.
• M. Arcak, "Passivity as a design tool for group coordination," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1380-1390, Aug. 2007.
• X. Fan, K. Chandrayana, M. Arcak, S. Kalyanaraman, and J. T. Y. Wen, "A two-time-scale design for edge-based detection and rectification of uncooperative flows," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1313-1322, Dec. 2006.
• M. Arcak and E. D. Sontag, "Diagonal stability of a class of cyclic systems and its connection with the secant criterion," Automatica, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1531-1537, Sep. 2006.
• E. Biyik and M. Arcak, "A hybrid redesign of Newton observers in the absence of an exact discrete-time model," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 429-436, June 2006.
• L. Praly and M. Arcak, "A relaxed condition for stability of nonlinear observer-based controllers," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 53, no. 3-4, pp. 311-320, Nov. 2004.
• M. Arcak and D. Nesic, "A framework for nonlinear sampled-data observer design via approximate discrete-time models and emulation," Automatica, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1931-1938, Nov. 2004.
• M. Arcak, H. Gorgun, L. M. Pedersen, and S. Varigonda, "A nonlinear observer design for fuel cell hydrogen estimation," IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 101-110, Jan. 2004.
• L. Moreau, E. Sontag, and M. Arcak, "Feedback tuning of bifurcations," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 229-239, Oct. 2003.
• J. T. Wen and M. Arcak, "A unifying passivity framework for network flow control," in Proc. 22nd Annual Joint Conf. of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2003), Vol. 2, 2003, pp. 1156-1166.
• M. Arcak, D. Angeli, and E. Sontag, "A unifying integral ISS framework for stability of nonlinear cascades," SIAM J. Control and Optimization, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1888-1904, 2002.
• R. Sepulchre, M. Arcak, and A. R. Teel, "Trading the stability of finite zeros for global stabilization of nonlinear cascade systems," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 521-525, March 2002.
• M. Arcak and P. Kokotovic, "Nonlinear observers: A circle criterion design and robustness analysis," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1923-1930, Dec. 2001.
• P. Kokotovic and M. Arcak, "Constructive nonlinear control: A historical perspective," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 637-662, May 2001.
• M. Arcak, A. Teel, and P. Kokotovic, "Robust nonlinear control of feedforward systems with unmodeled dynamics," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 265-272, Feb. 2001.